Now or never!

10 November 2014 | DCS2014

ROBERTO ZUCCO

Maladype Theatre (Budapest)
Mini teater (Ljubljana) – Novo kazalište (Zagreb)

Bernard-Marie Koltès
ROBERTO ZUCCO
Directed by Ivica Buljan

A powerful psychological thriller based on a true story, Roberto Zucco follows the sinister adventure of a serial killer. Italian young lost soul, aged 18, was sent to prison after violently murdering his parents. Five years later he escaped and went on the run, defying police in three countries. Changing his identity many times, he embarked on a horrific two-year crime spree undetected. A cross between Tarantino and Žižek, working over the themes of Hamlet, and reaching back to the myths of Oedipus and Icarus; this play brings the suspense of film noir to the stage.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

DAWN

Hodworks (Budapest)
DAWN
Choreographed by Adrienn Hód

The naked human body takes centre stage. It opens up in front of us like a landscape, dressed in the outlines of the muscles, the wrinkles of the skin and its flushed texture. We get to witness the body’s anatomical-mechanical nature or ‘animal-like quality’, which is so much of a taboo of our times. The continuity of the interactions and the unstoppable series of changes turn this daring piece into a performance which demands an exceptionally high level of consciousness, strength, and sensitivity from the dancers. Dawn is an autonomous and radical research of the body, free from prejudices.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

CONDITIONS OF BEING A MORTAL

Hodworks (Budapest)
CONDITIONS OF BEING A MORTAL
Choreographed by Adrienn Hód

After the stripped down, radical corporeality of Dawn, this production (Conditions of Being a Mortal) is physicality, woven into a chain of emotions.  The subconscious opens in a trance invoked by continuous movement. Splinters of sexuality, arias of impulsive gasps, a game of robust yet refined and sensitive humor, negating taboos. The torsos of four dancers rendered as a tangling of their inner histories. A negotiation between heaven and earth, and a triumph over prosaic urban reality.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

MOLIÈRE’S DON JUAN

Maladype Theatre (Budapest)
Bertolt Brecht
MOLIÈRE’S DON JUAN
Directed by Sándor Zsótér

Even for those who have never read or seen any Don Juan stories in their lives, the name Don Juan means the tempter, the irresistible type of man. But where does this charm come from? Nice appearance? Gentility? Money? Nice words? Disarming gall? Extravagance? The excitement of sin and viciousness?
Brecht turns this around – he does not concentrate on the figure of Don Juan but on the motives that make us create Don Juans.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

TOLDI

Forte Company – University of Theatre and Film Arts (Budapest)
János Arany
TOLDI
Performance by the 2014 Choreographer-Director for Physical Theatre Class
Directed and choreographed by Csaba Horváth

What happens when János Arany and contemporary theatre meet? Can a performance function if, while applying the theatrical toolkit of modern theatre (a combination of singing, music, dance, and movement), it is based on the original, unabridged version of the most classical of our classical texts? Yes it can… and how! (…) The piece is dynamic, exciting… Besides, it shows that the story and text of János Arany’s 1846 work is not dusty at all. It’s lively, legitimate, and contemporary the way it is. One only has to find the way by which today’s men can experience how exciting, complex, and amusing Toldi is.

Gergely Éles, 7 óra 7

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

ALEKSANDRA ZEC

HKD Theatre International Small Scene Theatre Festival (Rijeka)
ALEKSANDRA ZEC
Author and director: Oliver Frljić

Is there a place, where children cry delight,
A father has a daughter – son, a mother?
Where even dreaded death is calm, and white,
With lilies for farewell, placed by a brother?
Ivan Goran Kovačić: The Pit

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

ELIZABETH I

Szkéné Theatre – Vádli Theatre Company – FÜGE (Budapest)
Paul Foster
ELIZABETH I
Created by Rémusz Szikszai, based on Szabolcs Várady’s translation.
Directed by Rémusz Szikszai

Paul Foster’s Elizabeth I is about the creator of modern England, one of the greatest and most controversial figures of world history. Elizabeth’s name marks a whole era, the transition from the medieval to the new, modern world. Beyond her extraordinary personality, exactly this is what makes her interesting from a theatrical point of view: she was living in an epoch that was in many ways similar to ours: her world and people were also facing radical changes.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

THE NOTEBOOK

Szkéné Theatre – Forte Company (Budapest)
Agota Kristof
THE NOTEBOOK
Based on Erick Aufderheyde’s stage version
Directed and choreographed by Csaba Horváth

The devastating war in Europe forces a mother to make her twins stay with their grandmother, who resembles the witch of folk tales. The lonely, hungry and freezing children learn how to manage by themselves, and write their diaries in a notebook. They survive with hardened hearts and toughened bodies.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

HAMLETMACHINE

National Theatre Bitola (Bitola)
HAMLETMACHINE
Based on Heiner Müller’s drama, with texts by the dramaturge and the actors
Directed by András Urbán

Theater is a community. Performance is an action. A specific reality. We talk about freedom. Of freedom we live in. At least as long as we act. That’s real entertainment! My life. Your life!

András Urbán

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

OUR SECRETS

Béla Pintér and Company (Budapest)
OUR SECRETS
Written and directed by Béla Pintér

None of us is perfect, and certainly each of us has secrets. None of us is flawless… But we are sober fanatics of reality, living in a treadmill of good compromises.

Comrade Pánczél

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

COCKTAILS

Compagnie Thor (Brussels)
COCKTAILS
contemporary cabaret
Choreographed by Thierry Smits

Intimate and eccentric at the same time, flustering and topsy-turvy, Cocktails draws on the form of cabaret to present a mix of short pieces offering an ironic comment on our time.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

WHERE’S THE REVOLUTION SCUM?

Montažstroj (Zagreb)
WHERE’S THE REVOLUTION SCUM?
Concept and direction Borut Šeparović

Where’s the revolution scum?* is a performance about an edited recording of the performance MČŽPC which was banned for copyright infringement. The performing collective of MČŽPC – The Choir of Little People – consisted of the deprived members of the Croatian society: Old People, Dykes, Workers, Serbians, Women, Blacks… They sang against injustice and burgeoning fascism in the Croatian society.

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10 November 2014 | DCS2014

29 November 2014

2014. November 29. Saturday

7 pm Jadran Stage
Le Monfort Théâtre (Paris)
ACROBATES
Authors: Stéphane Ricordel & Olivier Meyrou

8.30 pm Modern Art Gallery
Maladype Theatre (Budapest) – Mini teater (Ljubljana) – Novo kazalište (Zagreb)
Bernard-Marie Koltès: ROBERTO ZUCCO
Directed by Ivica Buljan

10.30 pm Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre
Hodworks (Budapest)
DAWN
Choreographed by Adrienn Hód

10 November 2014 | DCS2014

30 November 2014

2014. November 30. Sunday

10 am Modern Art Gallery
Desiré Academy
Ivica Buljan director

3.30 pm Modern Art Gallery
Desiré Academy
Stéphane Ricordel director & Olivier Meyrou film director

6 pm Jadran Stage
Le Monfort Théâtre (Paris)
ACROBATES
Authors: Stéphane Ricordel & Olivier Meyrou

7.30 pm Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre
Hodworks (Budapest)
CONDITIONS OF BEING A MORTAL
Choreographed by Adrienn Hód

9 pm Modern Art Gallery
Maladype Theatre (Budapest)
Bertolt Brecht: MOLIÈRE’S DON JUAN
Diredted by Sándor Zsótér

10 November 2014 | DCS2014

1 December 2014

2014. December 1. Monday

11 am Modern Art Gallery
Desiré Academy
Zoltán Balázs director – Maladype Theatre

3 pm Modern Art Gallery
Desiré Academy
Adrienn Hód, Júlia Garai, Csaba Molnár – Hodworks

5 pm & 8.30 pm Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre
Forte Company – University of Theatre and Film Arts (Budapest)
János Arany: TOLDI
Directed and choreographed by Csaba Horváth

7 pm Jadran Stage
HKD Theatre International Small Scene Theatre Festival (Rijeka)
ALEKSANDRA ZEC
Author and director: Oliver Frljić