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“Each Generation Must Re-Invent Theatre”
A Roundtable Discussion with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley
In the book you write that by the very beginning you and Grotowski were like two moles under the ground, no one knew anything about you, you didn’t know anything about theatre but something was born between you there in the railway station restaurant. You talked about everything, about profession, parents, countries where you lived.
The Second Madách International Theatre Meeting - Preface
Theatre life in Hungary has always been colorful and rich with variety, yet for a long time there was one striking absence, there were no large-scale international meetings. With the organization of the first MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting) in the spring of 2014, this changed.
The Hairdresser
Fabulous winged men
Attila Vidnyánszky evoked a strange vision in his new production.
The main motive behind this vision is the perpetual human wish to fly,
which has been realized through extended historical epochs in a
colourful wide-screen tableaux. One of the threads of this story is the
heroic struggle, during a certain period of history in the Soviet Union,
between engineers whose aim was to triumph in their rivalry with one
another in the field of cosmic research.
Scapin’s Deceits
Silviu Purcărete is one of the world’s most acknowledged director, a
celebrity of significant theatrical festivals and well known theatres.
He directed Prokofiev’s opera Fiery Angel in the Csokonai Theater in
November 2010, which won the „Best Performance” Prize in 2010 in Szeged
Armel Opera Competition and Festival.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a madcap comedy, in which
three actors make an attempt to stage all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in
less than two hours. It has been a huge success in London's West End.
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“Why are we pursuing the art of theatre now? The essential intellectual content now seems archaic. Maybe it even sounds ridiculous. But unless we address this question, the theatre will be insubstantial, it will lose its roots and wither. Theatre will waste its essence and move to mannered, artificial forms. Pathos is missing; we are afraid to be pathetic. It is so beautiful when one rides on waves of emotions, flying, and the soul awakens from the mud of everyday existence.” (Attila Vidnyánszky, director)
Angels in America
The National Theatre offers a special night to the audience. Tony Kushner’s Angels in America actually contains two whole play, which - for the first time in the world - could be reduced into one show with the writer’s permission. The new translation made by a young Hungarian poet, Balázs Szálinger.
