Katona

The Katona József Theatre is the best known Hungarian theatre company - a public theatre, supported mainly by the City of Budapest. As an independent company, it was born in 1982, seceding of the National Theatre of Budapest, led by general director Gábor Székely and art director Gábor Zsámbéki. Since 1989 the post of general director has been held by Gábor Zsámbéki with Gábor Máté as general stage director, Tamás Ascher and Péter Gothár at his side as stage directors. Besides them, Andor Lukáts as well as guest directors of the younger generation regularly direct on its stage.

IVANOV the highly successful performance of the Katona József Színház in Budapest, that has had an enormously enthusiastic welcome in many great cities of the world (including Paris, Sydney, New York and Moscow) will be performed with English subtitles at 7 pm., on the 8th of January, 2010,

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Katona Jozsef theatre

Merlin alternative theater in Budapest

English spoken play in Merlin theater.

Simon Stephens' play, Pornography is set in July 2005, when the london bombings happened. The author shows the few days between the Live 8 concert, the announcement that London had been awarded the Olympics and the July 7 bombings through everyday lives of several characters. These characters are common people whose disappointment of life draws a clear image of social problems. The terrorist himself appears, who is only a part of our everyday life, a member of our social system. Stephens' play, and the production of Merlin reveals how similar he is to us, ordinary people. The frustration, the disappointment, the monotonic weekdays and the repressed agression define all of our lives. Hence all stories of the characters are equal; they are only fragments in parallel of everyday life in a city.

more info: http://merlinszinhaz.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=27&Itemid=23&menuid=szinhaz