12. Madách International Theatre Meeting

The theater, unfolding the spring-like, nascent state of language, offers us an exciting journey into the depths of human nature in a playful form through characters such as Agyagjani, the Counter-Person, PikDáma, Káró Bubi, Falánkozó, and others. We are also awaited by the Edible Woman, the Sobbing Tinker, the Shadowless Woman, and the Nihil Little Man, so that we can finally "humanize" a bit. ("These people are going to humanize. Where there are humans, there is humanity. Where there are moles, there is mole-ness." VN)

The oeuvre of Valère Novarina, French playwright, director, and painter, is becoming increasingly well-known in Hungary. Since 2009, performances in Hungarian directed by him have been staged in Debrecen, Budapest, and at the Odéon in Paris (Imaginary Operetta, Thus Spoke Louis de Funès, Forest of Names). These performances have been accompanied by translated volumes, conferences, conference proceedings, monographs, and staged readings both in Hungary and abroad. The most recent performance seen at MITEM, The Play of Shadows, was directed by Jean Bellorini. The theme of the current staged reading is the Easter transition from death to life, the journey of the human and the actor beyond themselves. During the musical reading-performance, accompanied by songs and film sketches, excerpts from both previous and new translations will be performed or visually presented in the etudes of SZFE students: Imaginary Operetta, Thus Spoke Louis de Funès (translated by Zsófia Rideg), Fragile Shelter, Thought Figures, Unknown Deed, Incomprehensible Mother Tongue (translated by Enikő Sepsi).

Participants: Anna Ráckevei and József Varga
Harmonica: Szabolcs Szász
Director: Valère Novarina
Assistant Director: Adélaïde Pralon
Dramaturg: Enikő Sepsi

Free entry, but registration is required. (Subject to availability, non-registered guests may also be admitted.) Register here: https://forms.gle/RmQ6aVdAymZds4NW8

From May 5 to 7, Valère Novarina and assistant director Adélaïde Pralon will hold a closed workshop at SZFE titled Journey Beyond the Human. Students (second-year acting and directing students, third-year dramaturgy students, first-year film directing students) will prepare etudes for the workshop (supervised by teachers Nándor Berettyán and Enikő Sepsi, as well as class leaders Ilja Bocsarnikovs, Pál Oberfrank, Aleksander Popovski, Bálint Szilágyi, József Pacskovszky, Anikó Nagy, Réka Szabó, and Balázs Lázár). Some of the etudes prepared will be showcased during the staged reading.

Additional Event: On May 5 at 10 a.m., Enikő Sepsi will hold a discussion with the director at the SZFE Doctoral School on the topic "Theater and Painting." (Location: Budapest, VIII. Vas u. 2/d, 1st floor)