
Premiers - 2025/2026

 Premiere: 20 September 2025
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                                            Kaszás Attila Stage
                                        
 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
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                                            Main Stage
                                        
 Premiere: 03 November 2025
                                                                                                                KA
                                            Kaszás Attila Stage
                                        
 Premiere: 28 November 2025
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                                            Main Stage
                                        
GH
                                            Gobbi Hilda Stage
                                        
KA
                                            Kaszás Attila Stage
                                        
GH
                                            Gobbi Hilda Stage
                                        
MS
                                            Main Stage
                                        