Companies to perform at the festival, which runs until Sunday, include Szeged?s own Focus Workshop, the Timisoara Csiky Gergely State Hungarian Theatre, the Targu Mures University of Arts, the Subotica Kosztolányi Desző Theatre and, for the first time, the Bitef company from Belgrade and the Montazstroj company of Zagreb. Students from Hungary?s Horváth Mihály secondary school in Szentes and the University of Theatre and Film Arts will also perform.
Two workshops, open to professionals and amateurs, will take place during the festival. Tamás Liszkai, a scholar at the Growtowski Institute in Wroclaw, will lead a seminar on voice and body work based on the methods of Zygmunt Molik over four days. József Trefeli and Gábor Varga will lead a workshop on movement on two occasions.
The Maszk Association has supported and documented independent and experimental theatre since the early 90s. Thealter?s main venue is Szeged?s old synagogue but the festival?s productions are also taken to the streets of the city in southeast Hungary.
