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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. 

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.