Programme

Macbeth is the tragedy of disorder, a plunge into the depths of the human soul, but it is also the tragedy of power—a violent, anarchic power. The protagonist’s ascent to the throne is extremely rapid, as is his downfall. We thus witness the annihilation of a system of values, from whose ashes a new world will ultimately emerge. The staging is choral: the performers are always on stage, moving as a single body from which scenes and characters emerge. All die, yet none remain on the ground. Each is reabsorbed into the chorus in a continuous cycle, symbolizing power which, like life, renews itself again and again. The production of Macbeth is possible thanks to support from the Italian Cultural institute in Bucharest.12+EN: Warning: this performance contains smoke effects. 

Macbeth is the tragedy of disorder, a plunge into the depths of the human soul, but it is also the tragedy of power—a violent, anarchic power. The protagonist’s ascent to the throne is extremely rapid, as is his downfall. We thus witness the annihilation of a system of values, from whose ashes a new world will ultimately emerge. The staging is choral: the performers are always on stage, moving as a single body from which scenes and characters emerge. All die, yet none remain on the ground. Each is reabsorbed into the chorus in a continuous cycle, symbolizing power which, like life, renews itself again and again. The production of Macbeth is possible thanks to support from the Italian Cultural institute in Bucharest.12+EN: Warning: this performance contains smoke effects. 

There was a little girl from Szekely Land who, one day, noticed that she was no longer a little girl, but a divorced woman in her forties. She also had cute nicknames: Tiny, Squirrel, Puffy. She even had a portrait made for her. It's really a shame that it was never finished. Who will finish it? In fact, is she really the one in the painting? Is the story about her? Who knows how this fairytale ends? Dad always used to say: "Everything will fall into place."

Ernesztó is recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament tear. They took away his favourite role at the theatre, and they also took away what had always been his reliable crutch: the euphoria of football. Some crutch, right! But still, who took it away? Life? Fate? As always? Is it possible that he wasn’t even happy before? It’s time to pick up the scalpel! Our hero looks inside himself and sees that the threads lead all the way back to 1994, when, in the Italy–Bulgaria World Cup semi-final, Gianluca Pagliuca steps out in perfect timing to intercept Lechkov’s through ball… But the Grasshopper and the Ant also appear, the golden team of Șimian, a compensation of 50,000 euros, grandma’s leg ointment, and a birthday table bending under the weight of food. Everything is connected – that’s why healing is so difficult.

There was a little girl from Szekely Land who, one day, noticed that she was no longer a little girl, but a divorced woman in her forties. She also had cute nicknames: Tiny, Squirrel, Puffy. She even had a portrait made for her. It's really a shame that it was never finished. Who will finish it? In fact, is she really the one in the painting? Is the story about her? Who knows how this fairytale ends? Dad always used to say: "Everything will fall into place."

Ernesztó is recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament tear. They took away his favourite role at the theatre, and they also took away what had always been his reliable crutch: the euphoria of football. Some crutch, right! But still, who took it away? Life? Fate? As always? Is it possible that he wasn’t even happy before? It’s time to pick up the scalpel! Our hero looks inside himself and sees that the threads lead all the way back to 1994, when, in the Italy–Bulgaria World Cup semi-final, Gianluca Pagliuca steps out in perfect timing to intercept Lechkov’s through ball… But the Grasshopper and the Ant also appear, the golden team of Șimian, a compensation of 50,000 euros, grandma’s leg ointment, and a birthday table bending under the weight of food. Everything is connected – that’s why healing is so difficult.

Under the direction of Attila Balázs, Mónika Tar skillfully evokes one of the most distinctive and culturally significant genres in Hungarian literature with great flair and naturalness.

Macbeth is the tragedy of disorder, a plunge into the depths of the human soul, but it is also the tragedy of power—a violent, anarchic power. The protagonist’s ascent to the throne is extremely rapid, as is his downfall. We thus witness the annihilation of a system of values, from whose ashes a new world will ultimately emerge. The staging is choral: the performers are always on stage, moving as a single body from which scenes and characters emerge. All die, yet none remain on the ground. Each is reabsorbed into the chorus in a continuous cycle, symbolizing power which, like life, renews itself again and again. The production of Macbeth is possible thanks to support from the Italian Cultural institute in Bucharest.12+EN: Warning: this performance contains smoke effects. 

Ernesztó is recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament tear. They took away his favourite role at the theatre, and they also took away what had always been his reliable crutch: the euphoria of football. Some crutch, right! But still, who took it away? Life? Fate? As always? Is it possible that he wasn’t even happy before? It’s time to pick up the scalpel! Our hero looks inside himself and sees that the threads lead all the way back to 1994, when, in the Italy–Bulgaria World Cup semi-final, Gianluca Pagliuca steps out in perfect timing to intercept Lechkov’s through ball… But the Grasshopper and the Ant also appear, the golden team of Șimian, a compensation of 50,000 euros, grandma’s leg ointment, and a birthday table bending under the weight of food. Everything is connected – that’s why healing is so difficult.

There was a little girl from Szekely Land who, one day, noticed that she was no longer a little girl, but a divorced woman in her forties. She also had cute nicknames: Tiny, Squirrel, Puffy. She even had a portrait made for her. It's really a shame that it was never finished. Who will finish it? In fact, is she really the one in the painting? Is the story about her? Who knows how this fairytale ends? Dad always used to say: "Everything will fall into place."

“It is quite clear that the legacy of Cseh Tamás goes far beyond the actual songs and performances. Just think about it: people do not say, ‘Will you sing a Cseh Tamás song?’, they simply say, ‘Will you sing Csehtamás?’ “In any case, I like to believe in a kind of continuity – that creative worlds are connected, that they influence and reflect one another.” Words by Beck Zoli from Sándor Fodor’s book Will You Sing Csehtamás? Something very similar is also the starting point of In all our Dreams. That is how we gathered. All of us would sing. And we will! One by one, together. We celebrate, because that is always possible. This time we celebrate the fact that we can sing, that we can sing Csehtamás, that our creative worlds can influence and reflect each other, that we have dreams, and that there is something that returns in all of them. “I figured it all out in a laundry room, what it would be.” Cseh Tamás – Ten Years After----The performance was realized with the support of the ProTeszt Association.

They live among us. We heard about their stories, we watched it over the news, we heard the neighborhood gossip. They are the ones sitting on the farthest bench in the park, the ones always apologizing, the ones never really looking in other people's eye, the ones with just too much makeup, and the ones we turn away from, because the look in their eyes just makes us uncomfortable. We see them but do we really know them? Have we ever asked them, about the choices they made, about the path they walked, about the battles they fought, about the lingering sadness around them, about the cuts and bruises? About their strength to keep going, to keep breathing, to keep longing for a better life, for a calm destination, for 12A Happiness Street.Let this text be their voices. The unspoken, uncomfortable truth of these women. The performance was produced within the framework of the European project “FemminiCity”, funded by the CERV programme.