Translated by Gergely Zöldi Musical director: Miklós Malek Sets, costume: Erzsébet Túri Director: György Böhm Cathy: Andrea Malek Jamie: Iván Kamarás A woman enters. She starts to sing: Jamie has gone, he has left her for good. She is alone. She is unhappy. A man enters. He has just met a fantastic woman: Cathy, the most perfect person who ever lived. He is happy. The story continues, songs and scenes follow one another and it transpires that the two characters are telling the same story, only Cathy is telling it backwards, Jamie relates it from the beginning. The two characters are simultaneously on stage within two separate timeframes, and they only meet in the middle of the work when the two personal passages of time intersect. This brings about their only duet, otherwise the piece is a series of parallel musical monologues, the story of five years condensed into a single hour. The career of a writer is on the up, that of an actress bumps along towards Ohio. And meanwhile they love each other, fight for each other and for themselves. They have only five years. Jason Robert Brown is a representative of the most progressive branch of American musical drama and many regard him as one of the most important alternatives to the apparently exhausted entertainment industry. The Last Five Years was premièred in Chicago in 2001 and enjoyed an immense success in New York a year later. The musical imposes tremendous demands on the two actors, both theatrically and musically. In the shape of Andrea Malek and Iván Kamarás, director György Böhm has found exciting personalities who are perfectly equipped for both aspects of their roles.

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