Hungarians on Nitra Festival Programme

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The Frankenstein Plan

Budapest's Bárka Theatre will perform the Frankenstein Plan at the festival, which will run from September 26 until October 1.

 
The other Hungarian production on the Divadelná Nitra programme is Zoltán Balázs's Bolero performed by the Maladype Theatre, the Thália Theatre and the Theatre Festival of Nitra.
 
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Leonce and Lena

The host country's productions in Nitra include the Slovak National Theatre's rendering of Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena, and the Andrei Baggar Theatre's piece Everything for the Nation. The recently formed ElleDanse Alternative Theatre will show Canto Hondo, about a woman who revisits the house of her birth.

 
The Czechs will be represented by an interpretation of Kafka's The Trial by Dusan D. Parízek that pits Josef K. against himself.
 
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Tomorrow There Will Be...

The Dutch director Alize Zandwijk will bring Bertolt Brecht's Baal to the stage, though with a woman (Fania Sorel) in the lead.

 
Poland's Jan Klata will return with to the festival this year with the Danton Affair, by Stanislawa Przybyszewska, following last year's success with Transfer!.
 
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Baal

From Russian will come a play directed by Victor Rizhakov and with the beautiful Polina Agureyava in the lead about a serial killer.

 
The German director Sebastian Nüblung's adaptation of Simon Stephen's 2007 play Pornography is also on the programme.
 
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The Danton affair

A play called Flying Attempts by the Italian Alessandro Panzavolta combines elements of theatre, performance art and fine art.

 

Photo: nitrafest.sk

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July

 

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Pornography