Performances
Jordi Galceran Burundanga or The Mask, The Basque and The Stuff
Plays written by Catalan contemporary playwright Jordi Galceran happen in real time, in only one location, with overwhelming humour, offering subjects for debate about the current society. His most famous play, „The Grönholm Method", was staged in many theatres across the country in Hungarian as well as Romanian.
„I just didn't know it. How was I supposed to know, when he never talked about it? Manel has an office job, he fixes computers, his mother sings in a women's choir, he plays indoor football every Saturday, does that look like a terrorist's life?"
Recommended for spectators aged 14 and older.
Coproduction with Satu Mare Northern Theatre, Harag György Company
Bartis Attila Depravity
Bartis Attila, born in Târgu Mureș, has lately become an essential representative of contemporary Hungarian literature, not only because he has written several successful novels („Tranquility”, „The Walk”, „The End”), but also due to his theatre plays, which he has also directed. By looking at the deviations in love and life,„Depravity” (2005) questions the complex notions of Art, Ego, Selfishness and Love.
Recommended for spectators aged 16 and older
Alan Alexander Milne Winnie the Pooh
Cristopher Robin's friends, dearest characters from the Enchanted Forrest, usually live their everyday lives joyfully singing happy songs. But the order inside the Forrest is broken from time to time by unusual events, just like that time when Winnie-the-Pooh needed saving because he ate too much honey. Inside the Forrest, new characters appear, which might seem suspicious to several inhabitans. The characters start an adventure towards the North Pole, but they don't really know what an expedition is. Tiger wants to have breakfast, but nobody knows what a tiger's diet is.
We must warn the spectators that the performance will give them the opportunity to meet an elephant or a weasel - or even two.The performance has a specific sense of humour and offers - for young and adult audiences alike - entertainment and relaxation, as well as novelty for the ones who are already familiar with the Enchanted Forrest, especially new songs.
based on the book I Was 12 Women by Forgách András A Tiny Cosmic Misunderstanding
Have you ever felt that you are swelling and gaining weight when your are around your partner; or on the contrary, you become skinny living with a man or woman? What would you say if you were left with plus/minus 20 kg after a simple airplane flight?
Here is another unusual situation: you want to become a singer, yet you find yourself in the restaurant-coach of a train going from Brasov to Budapest, selling expired meat for a limited period.
Why do you suddely miss someone who is nothing like your type, not to mention the endless cultural distance, for instance, he lives at the North Pole?
How can you make love in imponderability, like the austronauts live?
What can a true master offer?
Matei Vișniec Pockets Full of Bread
Created and performed by Kiss Attila and Molnos András Csaba
THE MAN WITH A CANE: Enormous capacity for indignation, agressive, manipulative, duplicitous, stubborn, somewhat coward, somewhat faint-hearted, willing to let himself easily impressed by problems he cannot solve, faithful to his own limits, suspicious, perfect for the role of destiny's victim, he prefers to be the executioner.
THE MAN WITH A HAT: Easily impressed, ambiguous, sly, impulsive but also rational, accomplice, secretous, somewhat coward, poetic when helpless, comfortable with his own conscience, convinced that he can save the world by postponing action, generous when it doesn't cost him anything.
„The message of this story reaches the invisible corners of our cowardness, which is typical for human nature. Due to excessive debating over the virtues and beauty of action, my characters are paralysed precisely when they should react. Does this remind you of anything familiar?" (Matei Vişniec)
Hans Christian Andersen The Snow Queen
Andersen's classical tale is transformed on Timisoara's Hungarian stage into a bitter-sweet story, which offers to children and adults alike the opportunity to choose which side they will take - in the eternal struggle of feeling and reason.
Patrick Ellsworth Dancer in the Dark
Jörg Graser Rabenthal
Our primal instincts are staring at us behind the aquarium which is placed somewhere between the absurdity of the bourgeois decadence and the sensual charm of the suffocating carnality. A fish chef, a waiter, a bored customer and his wife have started an unusual game. „I sometimes wonder, were you less cruel to me, would I love you less?"
Forbidden Books
Romanian translation: Oana Hodade
Coproducers:
TESZT, Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre, Timișoara
Temps d'Images festival, ColectivA Association, Cluj-Napoca
Instytut Adama Mickiewicza/Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland
The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca
Partners:
Universal Pleasure Factory
Special thanks to:
Panna Adorjáni & family
Arni
Bhkata
Catinca Drăgănescu
Marta Keil
Gzregorz Reske
Michał Rogulski
Sandra Bullock
Through this work makers attempt to translate their Eastern European Hubba Bubba flavoured millennial nostalgia into a language as modern as a new student apartment readily furnished with the finest and cheapest of IKEA. We offer our imagined and/or lived pasts and presents. Ours and yours as well. Forbidden Bookscelebrates our failed attempts at making sense of our insignificance in a world that is as isolated as it is viral. We might sound cheeky, but we never cease to seek for some serious poetry in the times after the irony
Görgey Gábor Wiener Walzer
The question in this game is not about who is the guilty one, but who can remain innocent until the end?
after Heinrich von Kleist The Marquise of O.
Heinrich von Kleist's text, "The Marquise of O.", is a metaphor of complete submission. Ugly, sentimentalist and absurd altogether. While being unconscious, the Marquise of O. was raped by the soldier who just minutes earlier had saved her from another rapist. Months later, the young marquise became aware of her pregnancy but she could not explain to anybody how she had gotten pregnant, so she was shunned by her family. In a final act of despair, she tries to find the father of her baby by posting a newspaper ad.
(Szász Hanna, dramaturg)
EXIT
Somewhere in Great Britain economic migrants are locked up inside a theatre building that has been out of use. They have arrived from various Eastern European countries: they want both to get out and to get in somewhere. Those from outside have promised them that everything will be sorted out and that they should not do anything other than wait. We analyse this seemingly endless wait through seven scenes. This laboratory situation is perfectly suited for self-examination. It is about us, those from the East, those from the Balkans: the emigrating immigrants. What do we think of our reflexes, our habits, our inherited and learned behavioural patterns, our lack of trust, our prejudices, our fears and desires?
We are alike, we all desire love and safety. But the road to these desires can be very different. How do we cope with being locked up? How does community form? How do we tear down old relations in order to build up new ones? How do we reformulate our goals? What do we do, what do we sacrifice to survive? All these questions become especially interesting with regards to Hungarian-Romanian-Serbian relations. What memories and fixations determine these relations? How are ethnic and cultural differences overwritten by a crisis?
Performed in Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and English with English, Hungarian and Romanian surtitles
Frank Wedekind Spring Awakening
Lukács György
Dysphoria show
based on Molière The Impromptu of Versailles or the Monkey House
Fanni Sényi
