Premiere: 20 September 2025
KA
Kaszás Attila Stage
Premiers - 2025/2026
Premiere: 08 October 2025
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Kaszás Attila Stage
or radical optimism
My decision to engage with Voltaire’s Candide is connected to the word optimism. To that fascinating word which, nowadays, has become more a subject of mockery, or else is treated as a form of weakness. Its essence seems to have retreated, out of fear of reality.
What does it mean to be an optimist today? Is it even possible anymore? Can we still hope for something better?
This is why I added another word to the title, one that is all too familiar to us today: radicalism.
This Candide is a simple optimist—this Candide is a radical optimist.
Hence the title of the play: Candide, or Radical Optimism.
Director: Aleksandar Popovski
Premiere: 10 October 2025
MS
Main Stage
Premiere: 28 November 2025
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Main Stage
GH
Gobbi Hilda Stage
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Kaszás Attila Stage
GH
Gobbi Hilda Stage
MS
Main Stage