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Plays
Academy of Ms. Beksa
Julia Holewińska
A play for children, referring to the Academy of Mr. Kleks by Jan Brzechwa, but addressed primarily to girls. The eponymous academy is the opposite of a typical school, being the place where girls learn freedom and expressing themselves. Their wild, anarchist plays are interrupted by an arrival of the Pink Queen, who represents the oppressive kitsch of pop culture. The language of the play, often rhymed and full of free associations, is a tribute to Brzechwa’s poetry and the "freestyle" represented by today’s ten-year-olds.
Ernella Visits the Wolfs’ (Ernelláék Farkaséknál)
Szabolcs Hajdú
A play that became the basis for the screenplay of the film It's not the time of my life, directed by the author. It talks about a meeting of adult siblings: a stable family living in Budapest is visited by a married couple with a child, coming back after several years of economic emigration. The meeting of two worlds – the little stabilization and the unfulfilled success – creates conflicts.
Nothing More Has Happened (Más nem történt)
Andrea Pass
A play based on a true story of sexual harassment in one of Hungarian schools – a popular teacher abuses the trust of students and the community, and the pupils cannot properly assess the situation.
Essays, Studies
Klata and after
Joanna Targoń
Tickets for the end of the 2016/2017 season, which has turned out to be Jan Klata's last season at the Old Theatre, have been all sold out .The people, to whom authorities and critics like to refer in their texts, rushed to the box office to see the Wedding, Cinderella, Trilogy, King Lear, Enemy of the People. Who knows what will happen the next season, what is decided by the new management, which performances will remain in the repertoire, and which actors will loose their jobs.
You can do it!
Stanisław Godlewski
When in 2014 Paweł Wodziński and Bartosz Frąckowiak took up the management over the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz, they declared a new opening with a clear programme of "public theatre". From the perspective of the closure, after recent premieres, after a spectacular and moving finale, it is now clear that in Bydgoszcz an unthinkable thing happened – the announced program was in fact realized. It was possible to create a public theatre operating for three years, almost exactly in accordance with the previously declared definition.
Abdication of the Great Educator
Jolanta Kowalska
At the Wroclaw Puppet Theater, under the artistic direction of Jakub Krofta, in the spectacles of last seasons a tendency has emerged which might be called the abdication of the Great Educator. Dramatists and directors, instead of speaking from the heights of authority, subjected it to critical reflection. In their performances adults do not hide their own imperfections anymore. Instead, they sin with ignorance, selfishness, lack of understanding and empathy towards their little pupils. Kroft and the artists invited by him create a catalogue of the main sins of modern parenthood.
Until the Versailles ends
Piotr Olkusz
Cinderella by Joël Pommerat is a remake of a well-known fairy tale, but it is done in an interesting way as it focuses not only on the educational character of the story. In Perrault's fairy tales – and in this Cinderella – there are traces of many of his stories. They were in fact political texts, presenting the advantages of the modernizing country. Today many of these advantages seem archaic – the text by Pommerat, and its staging by Anna Smolar do not erase them from the plot, pointing to the need of being aware of literary and cultural traditions.
They or us
Szymon Kazimierczak
The author looks for reasons why in the case of Agata Duda-Gracz, a director so unique in our theatrical landscape, creating works with an unparalleled vision, momentum and precision, her career is constantly undermined. Despite small successes, it is impossible to resist the impression, reading at least some commentaries after the premieres, that the individuality of her theatrical language is perturbing for reviewers.
Partners in love
A conversation with Attila Vidnyánszky, director of the National Theatre in Budapest. Vidnyánszky talks about his devotion to the art that looks for universal subjects and not to the ones that are temporary or directly political. He also mentions institutial changes in Hungarian theatre in recent years.
Nationalist Romanticism
A conversation with director Árpád Schilling on being an artist in Hungary under Orbán’s rule. Schilling draws our attention to strong conflicts that reign in the artistic world in this country and describes mechanisms of subduing to politicians.
Contemporary Hungarian cinema
Grzegorz Bubak
Recently Hungarian films have won many awards and are widely recognized by audiences. The generational change that took place in Hungarian cinema is also visible. A large number of debuts are due, among others, to legal solutions dating back several years, which made it possible to guarantee funds for artists starting work. The author presents the most important tendencies seen in the films of recently debuting artists.
An island of new generation
Tamás Jászay
Today's thirty- and forty-year-olds seem to have come out of the shadow of the great directors of the "golden age" of Hungarian theatre, who are now sixty-seventy years old. There is no talk of rebellion, but rather the need for independence. It seems that the political transformation has helped the young artists to find their own voice - today's theatre requires new ways of financing and organization, so it would be hardly possible to maintain the aesthetic traditions of the past.
Revolution in theatre
Daniel Warmuz
The article presents the most important theatrical events related to the October 1956 anniversary. The impressive program of events, although it aroused emotions at the time, did not cause conflicts. A few of the proposals were interesting, but many came into being mainly because of the possibility of using governmental grants. Nevertheless, for the first time Hungarian theatre did so much to tackle theatrical discussion with history.
Columns
Pedro Pereira, Tadeusz Nyczek, Marek Beylin
Varia
Contexts
Notes on plays
Wróg publiczny i inne dramaty węgierskie. An anthology edited by Patrycja Paszt; Berlin: Autorentheatertage; Deirdre Kinahan Spinning