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said the intimate scenes between the players in the production worked well because the humour - which has an especially big role in the piece - makes the performance a metaphor.
"I tried to make the purest metaphor possible, The signs are so simple that they are almost the same as the things they represent," the paper quoted Schilling as saying.
Schilling, who heads Hungary's Krétakör troupe, which has made an indelible mark on the country's theatre scene, said the production was an "enormous challenge". He approached the task with the hope that he could not only bring his own ideas to the piece, but also learn from the students. "And that is just what happened," he said.
Urban Rabbits is built on movement and acrobatics, but also tells a story, putting it among acts moving the circus arts in a new direction, acts such as those that can be seen in Canada's Cirque du Soleil.
Urban Rabbits can be seen in Paris until February 14. In the spring, the class will take the piece on tour to Malta, Italy and Romania. It can be seen at the Capital Circus in Budapest on June 19-27, in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, on July 9-11, and in Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, on July 23-25.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: Dániel Kováts
