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Zebra Crossing Theatre
Maladype Theatre [H] Alfred de Musset > Lorenzaccio
Münchner Kammerspiele [D] Elfriede Jelinek > Rechnitz [The Exterminating Angel]

Zebra Crossing Theatre

October 9 | 16.00
Andrássy Avenue

Director > András Dömötör

With >
KoMa | TÁP Theatre | Tünet Company | Classes of the Theatre Academy
While we know from Shakespeare that “all the world is a stage”, no one has thought that zebra crossings could also be included in this world. Obviously, the audiences are in place, bored motorists and pedestrians waiting for the lights to turn green, and though multi-act dramas cannot be staged there, a series of skits, funny sketches and actions could be developed into special zebra performances. The BØF Zebra Crossing Theatre [on the zebra crossings of the Andrássy út] will appear on the cultural avenue of Budapest during the first days of the festival. Their roughly 1-hour performance, consisting of 50-60 tiny acts, would explicitly like to amaze the audiences, but in addition to entertainment the young players will also address more serious social issues.
Joint production with AKKU.

Zebra Crossing Theatre

October 10 | 16.00
Andrássy Avenue

Director > András Dömötör

With >
KoMa | TÁP Theatre | Tünet Company | Classes of the Theatre Academy

© Felvégi Andrea
While we know from Shakespeare that “all the world is a stage”, no one has thought that zebra crossings could also be included in this world. Obviously, the audiences are in place, bored motorists and pedestrians waiting for the lights to turn green, and though multi-act dramas cannot be staged there, a series of skits, funny sketches and actions could be developed into special zebra performances. The BØF Zebra Crossing Theatre [on the zebra crossings of the Andrássy út] will appear on the cultural avenue of Budapest during the first days of the festival. Their roughly 1-hour performance, consisting of 50-60 tiny acts, would explicitly like to amaze the audiences, but in addition to entertainment the young players will also address more serious social issues.
Joint production with AKKU.

Maladype Theatre [H]
Alfred de Musset > Lorenzaccio

October 11 | 19.30
Thalia Theatre – New Studio

Director > Sándor Zsótér

With >
Kamilla Fátyol | Zoltán Lendváczky | Ákos Orosz | Zsolt Páll | Ádám Tompa

Dramaturg and translated by Júlia Ungár
Sets > Mária Ambrus
Costumes > Mari Benedek
Dramaturgy > Júlia Ungár
Assistant to the director > András Szabó

Performance in Hungarian.

© Gábor Udvardy
Florence, early 16th century. The prince is debauched, without moral scruples. The aristocrats and citizens protest but they are unable to join forces. A young man, Lorenzo de Medici, decides to do away with the tyrant single-handedly. He joins the prince and becomes his friend, sycophant and evil spirit. The acting is perfect but the mask becomes too much a part of Lorenzo, who sacrifices not only his reputation but also his family and friends for his plan that increasingly becomes an obsession. Finally he succeeds, the tyrant is dead, but nothing changes: Lorenzo himself runs into the murderous dagger and a totally unsuitable puppet figure is chosen in his place. Alfred de Musset’s drama written in 1834, the “Hamlet of Romanticism”, full of poetic beauty and strikingly modern in its attitude, is rarely performed in Hungary. Of course, this is partly because the original play calls for sixty changes of scene and four hundred characters. Here Sándor Zsótér stages it with five actors from the Maladype company.
A joint production of Thália Theatre, Budapest Autumn Festival and Maladype Theatre.

Supporters >
OKM | NKA | „Budapest Bank for Budapest” Foundation | Krétakör | Summa Artium | Raiffeisen Bank | Municipality of Budapest

Ticket price > HUF 2500
If all tickets are sold on the internet please call the Customer Service (+36 1 486-3311) or send us an e-mail to tickets@fesztivalvaros.hu.

Maladype Theatre [H]
Alfred de Musset > Lorenzaccio

October 12 | 19.30
Thalia Theatre – New Studio

Director > Sándor Zsótér

With >
Kamilla Fátyol | Zoltán Lendváczky | Ákos Orosz | Zsolt Páll | Ádám Tompa

Dramaturg and translated by Júlia Ungár
Sets > Mária Ambrus
Costumes > Mari Benedek
Dramaturgy > Júlia Ungár
Assistant to the director > András Szabó

Performance in Hungarian.
Florence, early 16th century. The prince is debauched, without moral scruples. The aristocrats and citizens protest but they are unable to join forces. A young man, Lorenzo de Medici, decides to do away with the tyrant single-handedly. He joins the prince and becomes his friend, sycophant and evil spirit. The acting is perfect but the mask becomes too much a part of Lorenzo, who sacrifices not only his reputation but also his family and friends for his plan that increasingly becomes an obsession. Finally he succeeds, the tyrant is dead, but nothing changes: Lorenzo himself runs into the murderous dagger and a totally unsuitable puppet figure is chosen in his place. Alfred de Musset’s drama written in 1834, the “Hamlet of Romanticism”, full of poetic beauty and strikingly modern in its attitude, is rarely performed in Hungary. Of course, this is partly because the original play calls for sixty changes of scene and four hundred characters. Here Sándor Zsótér stages it with five actors from the Maladype company.
A joint production of Thália Theatre, Budapest Autumn Festival and Maladype Theatre.

Supporters >
OKM | NKA | „Budapest Bank for Budapest” Foundation | Krétakör | Summa Artium | Raiffeisen Bank | Municipality of Budapest

Ticket price > HUF 2500
If all tickets are sold on the internet please call the Customer Service (+36 1 486-3311) or send us an e-mail to tickets@fesztivalvaros.hu.

Münchner Kammerspiele [D]
Elfriede Jelinek > Rechnitz [The Exterminating Angel]

October 17 | 19.00
Thalia Theatre – Main Stage

Messengers >
Katja Bürkle | André Jung | Hans Kremer | Steven Scharf | Hildegard Schmahl

Director > Jossi Wieler

Set | costumes > Anja Rabes
Lighting > Max Keller
Music > Wolfgang Siuda
Dramaturgy > Julia Lochte
Assistant to the director > Ramin Anaraki

Performance in German with Hungarian surtitles.

© Arno Declair
On the night of March 24, 1945 a strange party lasting till dawn was held in the castle of Rechnitz [formerly Rohonc] in Burgenland. As the “highlight” of the evening the Nazi leaders who were the guests of Countess Margit Batthyány shot close to two hundred Hungarian Jewish forced labourers. No one has ever been called to account: the countess fled in time to Switzerland before the German capitulation. She lived there until her death in 1989 and it was from here that she helped those directly responsible for the massacre to flee abroad. She was never brought to trial for her deeds.
In her recently premièred drama, Elfriede Jelinek, one of the most autonomous and provocative writers of our time, winner of the Nobel Prize, Jelinek makes no attempt to reconstruct the event: her look into the past is more of an archeology of language, an attempt to reveal the touched-up details of the crime, but also an attempt to speak of the contemporary dealing with the past.The première was held not in Austria but in Munich, the city that played such an important role in Hitler’s rise to power, where the performance directed by Jossi Wieler was one of the outstandingly important events of the past season. Jossi Wieler was born in Switzerland. From 1972-1980 he lived in Tel Aviv, where he studied direction and where he staged his first plays at Habima Theater.
Supported by Goethe Institute.

Ticket price > HUF 4500 | 2500 | 1500
If all tickets are sold on the internet please call the Customer Service (+36 1 486-3311) or send us an e-mail to tickets@fesztivalvaros.hu.