Translation: Alexandra Ruppeldtová
Director: Zoltán Balázs

Cast:

Peter: Milan Ondrík
Marango: Daniela Kuffelová
Alfredo: Jakub Rybárik
Frank: Ivan N. Vojtek
Paul: Peter Kadlečík
Hans: Martin Nahálka
Michael: Martin Fratrič
Gastin: Juraj Hrčka
Kevin: Peter Oszlík
Monique: Kristína Turjanová
Bertha: Gabriela Dolná
Daphne: Kristína Greppelová
Violet: Alena Pajtinková
Cynthia: Eva Szakálová

Dramaturg:Judit Góczán
Choreography: András Szöllösi
Lektor Dramaturg: Sylvia Huszár
Costume Design: Péter Polgár

Opening night: 21. 01. 2011., Andrej Bagar Theatre, Nitra, Slovakia

Tour:
International Theatre Festival, Nitra, Slovakia – 2011

Awards:
Péter Polgár - Best costume, best scenery - 2011

Opening Night: 2011.10.08.

Writer: Matei Vișniec
Translation: Jeremy Lawrence, Catherine Popesco

Director: Balázs Zoltán

About the play:
The young Soviet writer Yuri Petrovsky receives the State Prize, directly from Glorious Comrade Stalin himself, for his short stories on building socialism. The Writers' Union picks him out for a special task: they mandate him to give ideological training to the insane. So, he explains the story of communism through a series of short narratives to the patients of a mental institution. His commanders' instructions were: “Use all of your talent and patriotism so that our mentally ill can also feed on the hope that the Great October Socialist Revolution kindled in the hearts of workers of the world...".

About Trap Door Theatre:
Beata Pilch's main mission is to present contemporary European works. Her theater is characterized by the combination of old traditions and modern tools to illustrate the absurdities in today's modern society. The theater company established its permanent home in Chicago in 1994, where American audiences have since enjoyed more than seventy of their performances.

Players:

Beata Pilch
Ann Sonnewille / Nicole Wiesner 
Simina Contras
Dennis Bisto
Michael Garvey
Pavi Proczko

Set Desinger: Aaron O'Neill
Costume Designer: Rachel Sypniewski
Music Composer: Danny Rockett
Dramaturg: Milan Pribisic
Makeup Desinger: Zsófia Ötvös
Lighting: Richard Norwood
Assistans of director: Emily Lotspeich, Gary Damico

Opening night: March 16, 2016, Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, USA

Tour:
ATELIER International Theatre Festival, Baia Mare, Romania – 2017
International Theatre Festival, Constanta, Romania – 2017
Reduta Cultural Centre, Brașov, Romania – 2017
Sibfest International Theatre Festival, Baia Mare, Romania - 2017
Budapest Puppet Theatre, Budapest - 2017

Awards:
Danny Rockett - JEFF Award – Best Original Music – 2016
Zoltán Balázs – Best Director – International Festival in Baia Mare, Romania - 2017

 

Tour:
Festival of Performing Arts Universities, Bulandra Theater, Bucharest, Romania - 2017

Director: Zoltán Balázs

Prague, Bratislava, Sibiu, Maribor, Sarajevo and Moscow... These are only a few stops, where -since its premiere on January 13, 2018- the nonverbal performance August, directed by Zoltán Balázs, has had its international success.

In the performance August, based on Bruno Schulz’s collection of short stories Cinnamon Shops, the director translates the linguistic metaphors of the Jewish extraction polish writer to images, body, movement and gestures; the fine teamwork and intellect of the actors of the company make it plastic.

The ensemble of Maladype implements the bizarre system of the interrelationship between form and content of a highly strung writer through the language of play, theater and arts. The nonverbal stage composition of the remarkable poetic language depicts the world as it appears in the feelings of the narrator: it is capable of ever-changing, flickering and limitless transformations.

Description:

Bruno Schulz, the master of colored fantasies, tales and sensations builds his stories from worthless trifles within the wings of which our life happens, and where the only essence lies in the continuous alternation of masks and forms. Although Schulz is the spiritual companion of German expressionists, Musil and Kafka, instead of a terror of universal dimensions, he builds his house from his own childhood. The magical-realist writer of Cinnamon Shops describes the last days of the Monarchy in a small Galician town, where the decline of the old world is seen through young Joseph’s child’s eyes in the figure of his own father, Jacob, a solid merchant and a philosopher-mage at the same time. According to the writer, childhood „appears to be the materialization of that ’age of genius, the ’age of Messiah’ promised by all the mythologies.” Joseph protects himself from the aggression of the suffusing chaos by letting it into the house and finding a place for it in the spaces of his life. “How naive it is to think that we can forge our destiny while struggling with thousands of small things in our life! I only wish to escape the vigilance of fate and, without creating a sensation, unobtrusively nuzzling up to my good luck, become invisible.”

Players:

Gedeon András
Kornél Ádám
Brigitta Dőry
Brigitta Erőss
Andrea Lukács
Gáspár Mesés
Zoltán Pál
Erika Vincze
Lilla Zsenák

Production manager: Katalin Balázs
Creative producer: Sylvia Huszár

Awards:
"Best performance" award - 7. SIFTY - International Theatre Festival for Youth, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - 2022
The Special prize „For outstanding teamwork and composition” form the Student Jury - XXX. Festival of Hungarian Theatres beyond the border, Kisvárda, Hungary - 2018
Jury Award for „Collective creation” - ISTROPOLITANA International Theatre Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - 2018

Tour:
Sahara International Theater Nights, Adrar, Algeria - 2022
National Theatre, Algir, Algeria - 2022
7. SIFTY - International Theater Festival for Youth, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - 2022
Teatro Infanta Isabel, Madrid, Spain - 2022
Golden Gate Theatre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2021
National Theatre, Játékszín, Miskolc - 2021
Via Carpatia International Festival, Olsztyn, Poland - 2021
Analogio International Festival, Athens, Greece - 2021
FIAT - International Theatre Festival, Podgorica, Montenegro - 2021
National Theatre, Studio, Miskolc, Hungary - 2020
International Bruno Schulz Festival, Drohobych, Ukraine - 2020
Bitef Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia - 2019
21. SKAMPA International Contemporary Theatre Festival, Tirana, Albania - 2019
21. SKAMPA International Contemporary Theatre Festival, Elbasan, Albania - 2019
IV. International Experimental Theatre Festival, Hanoi, Vietnam - 2019
Nisville - International Jazz Theatre Festival, Niš, Serbia - 2019
Festival of Independent Theatres, Pesti Theatre, Budapest, Hungary - 2019
ATELIER International Theatre Festival, Baia Mare, Romania - 2019
YOUR CHANCE International Theatre Festival, Moscow, Russia - 2019
Winter Festival, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2019
Winter Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2019
Borstnik International Theatre Festival, Maribor, Slovenia - 2018
House of Culture, Lendava, Slovenia - 2018
XXX. Festival of Hungarian Theatres beyond the border, Kisvárda, Hungary - 2018
SIBFEST, International Theatre Festival, Sibiu, Romania - 2018
ISTROPOLITANA International Theatre Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - 2018
ZLOMVAZ International Theatre Festival, Prague, Czech Republic - 2018
Crossroads, TRIP Ship, Budapest, Hungary - 2018
Cross-border Hungarian Theatres Festival, Budapest, Hungary - 2018
House of Culture, Sighisoara, Romania - 2018
Szín-Tár International Theatre Festival, Kecskemét, Hungary - 2018
HolnapUtán Theatre Festival, Oradea, Romania - 2018

With the support of the Ministry of Human Capacities (EMMI)
and University of Arts, Târgu Mureș

Emőke Sárosi, Kortárs Online, 2017

CAST:
Director: Zoltán Balázs
Performers: Ágota Szilágyi, Marianna Sipos, Erika Tankó, László Kéringer, János Fekete "Jammal", Viktória Denk, Zsigmond Bödők, Lóránd Bartha, Eszter Balogh
Music: László Sáry
Set design: Zoltán Balázs
Costume: Anikó Németh

Performance by Maladype Theater coporduction with Castle Theatre, Gyula.

OPENING NIGHT: 11 August 2017, Castle Theatre, Gyula

Zoltán Balázs was awarded Best Director at the 24th ATELIER International!

Theater Festival. Matei Vişniec’s absurdist play, How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients traveled to SIBFEST International Theater Festival in Sibiu, after Maladype’s leader successfully staging it in Chicago at Trap Door Theatre in 2016, and then in Budapest. The performance also earned the appreciation of the professional jury and the audience in Baia Mare. Back in Chicago, the play was recognized by the critics with the Jefferson Award in multiple categories (Best, performance, Best director, Best male lead, Best set and costume); in Baia Mare, the jury of 5 professionals also had to consider the performance in various categories before presenting the director with the prize.

Founded in 1992 by Radu Macrinici, writer and dramatist, the ATELIER International Theater Festival is, by its own definition, a theatrical manifesto for non-conventional productions and creators characterized by research and seeking. Performances showcased here – followed by large audiences interested in contemporary and post-modern Romanian and international plays – focus on innovations in acting, directing, dramaturgy, and scenery. Organized between June 11 and 18 this year, the 24th ATELIER International Theater Festival hosted performances from the United States of America, England, Belgium, South Korea, Hungary, and Romania.

After Baia Mare and Brasov, the Trap Door Theatre performance will be shown at the summer festival in Konstanz on June 21.

On June 8, the opening day of the POSZT National Theatre Festival, the theater marketing conference Buy a Theater! (organized for the third time) awarded the prize Buy A Theater!, which was founded by the Magyar Teátrumi Társaság (Hungarian Theater Company) this year.

The awardees:

Best website: Maladype Theatre

Best theater poster and publication of the year: National Theatre Târgu-Mureş Tompa Miklós Company

Best social media site: Vígszínház

Best buffet & Best theater seat: Jókai Theatre, Békéscsaba

There were 121 applications submitted to the 6 categories from 43 theaters during the two-week nomination period. Theaters entering into the competition were casting their votes on the other submissions, excluding their own.

Category-winners were awarded a voucher for a Facebook campaign worth HUF 150 00, with the winners determining the timing and theme of the campaign themselves. Winners also participate at a two-day marketing training, aiming to gain useful and hands-on knowledge to implement in their own theater’s practices.

Almost 100 professionals working in theater marketing participated at the 3rd Buy A Theater! theater marketing conference Buy a Theater!, which is part of the campaign launched last year, I Went to the Theater! This year’s themes included the importance of accessibility and international branding, and participants were also introduced to Hungarian cultural trends and the latest polling tools.

"It's important how theaters look at themselves, how seriously they take themselves and how they plan their communication activities. Creativity and the conscious use of marketing tools are just as important in the world of theater as it is anywhere else. Hungarian spectators purchased 6.5 million theater tickets last year – this is 1.5 times more than 5 years ago. This number was a result of quality theater productions and their witty and sophisticated introduction to the audience.” – said László Szabó, secretary of the Magyar Teátrumi Társaság (Hungarian Theater Company) in their release.

Find submissions and the complete list of Buy A Theater! winners via the website szinhazbamentem.hu.

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