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23 April 2023, Sunday, 6 PM, Kaszás Attila Stage

Contemporary Theatre of the Universal Standard: Tadashi Suzuki in Toga

SCOT Symposium and Demonstration

The Symposium is organised around the Suzuki Company of Toga's (SCOT) theatrical work of nearly 50 years, with a particular emphasis on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training (SMAT), to investigate how and why the SCOT has created a universal standard for contemporary theatre, of which the Theatre Olympics is a manifest illustration.

22 April 2023, Saturday, 8:30 pm, First Floor Lobby

Book review - Tadashi Suzuki: Culture is the Body

The SCOT-Suzuki Company's performance of The Trojan Women followed by an audience meeting to launch Tadashi Suzuki's book Culture is the Body, with the author. 

16 April 2023, Sunday, 8.30 pm, National Theatre, Main Stage

Book review - Theodoros Terzopoulos: The Return of Dionysus

Attis Theatre's performance of A Doll’s House followed by an audience meeting to present Theodoros Terzopoulos' book The Return of Dionysus, with the author. Additional participants at the book launch include András Kozma (translator) and Zsolt Antal (Deputy Rector of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, the publisher of the book, and head of the Antal Németh Institute for Drama Theory).

Színházi Olimpia

“Now I Need the Epic Spaciousness of Time”

Interview with Attila Vidnyánszky

Theatres are continuously looking for texts and topics, the hic et nunc relevant ways for expression. And probably this is the main reason why we turn to these great literary achievements because these days there are not many really significant new texts. Contemporary authors do not address theatre audiences in either a very shallow, lurid way or by contriving intellectual acrobatic stunts, they do not really reach the directors’ hearts. Meanwhile there are some miracle-works, which force a man to express himself, his environment, his feelings about life through them. There are no consciously thought-out, simple concepts through which these epic works attract attention, but they demand to be performed by their own power.

Open: 16 April – 1 July 2023.

Madách200, an installation by the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute

Venue: National Theatre, first floor lobby

For the 200th anniversary of the birth of playwright Imre Madách, the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute is bound to prepare a montage on fifteen screens, based mostly on the performance recordings, photographs and other documents in its collections.

10th Theatre Olympics - Budapest, Hungary

About the International Theatre Olympics. What is the Theatre Olympics? Olympic cities and messages. Festival figures. Who organises the Olympics? Why is the 10th Theatre Olympics hosted by the National Theatre, by Budapest, by Hungary in 2023? Hosts, partners, venues. Focus on Imre Madách...

What is in the ark?

We have chosen the ark as the symbol of the festive 10th Theatre Olympics and within it, the 9th Madách International Theatre Meeting, MITEM. To use the biblical parallel, we board the ark to save ourselves and our values.

MITEM - A culture of understanding

Madách International Theatre Meeting – Budapest, National Theatre

In 2014, the Director of the National Theatre, Attila Vidnyánszky and his colleagues founded MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting) with the aim of putting Hungary on the international festival map. In 2023, MITEM will be both the organiser of the International Theatre Olympics and the central venue of its events. 

Ágnes Pálfi – Zsolt Szász

Self-Identity and Artist’s Existence

Flash Report on MITEM 2014 Productions

Ágnes Pálfi: Thinking back on the professional programmes as well as the entire festival, it is worth asking ourselves the question: were we, editors of Szcenárium, right in selecting the concepts of “Identity – Sacrality – Theatrality” to delineate the topic of the two professional days organised by the journal?

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