In November 2023, Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts hosted for the sixth time the dunaPart contemporary performing arts platform, presenting the best of Hungarian independent theatre and contemporary dance to foreign guests. At the end of the festival, we asked the selectors and directors of two renowned foreign festivals, Charlotte Orti, director of the Fast Forward Festival organised by Staatsschauspiel Dresden, and Grzegorz Reske, director of the Spring Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht, to share their experiences of what they saw and what they encountered in Hungary. They were interviewed by our editor-in-chief Tamás Jászay. The interview is available in English with Hungarian and English subtitles.
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IDENTICAL TRACKLISTS MDLSX / Motus (IT), Trafó
Silvia Calderoni’s show makes us behave like the voyeurs of a peep show. The only difference is that she shows us not only her body, but the anxiety and pain as well caused by her physical otherness. A REVIEW BY PANNI PUSKÁS.
WE COMPLEMENT ONE ANOTHER An interview with Gabriela Carrizo, a founding member of Peeping Tom
After ten years we had the pleasure of seeing the Belgian Peeping Tom theatre company in Trafó once again. We had a chat with Gabriela Carrizo, the director of Moeder (Mother) about remembrance, time, family and team work. AN INTERVIEW BY PANNI NEDER.
THE TABLES HAVE TURNED Kornél Mundruczó– Proton Theater: Imitation of Life / Trafó
Imitation of Life is a documentarist gothic tale in the manner of Kornél Mundruczó. BY TAMÁS JÁSZAY.
CLICK TO CONTINUE The Day of Fury – Krétakör / Trafó
A drop in the ocean, pars pro toto, a lot of ordinary people, a clichéd story, reality, Shaw – or what you will, and what you won’t. The theatre of Árpád Schilling is a mirror into which even those who feel to be innocent in creating the world we live in look with a sense of dread. Neither the witness, nor the victim is shown clemency. REVIEW BY JUDIT CSÁKI.