József Nagy, a prominent dancer-choreographer, has brought a fresh production to the Bárka festival each year - Eden in 2006 and Landscape After a Storm in 2007 - and this year he will do the same with his Sho-bo-gen-zo, the Path to Enlightenment.
The New Theatre of Riga, under the direction of Alvis Hermanis, caused a sensation at the festival two years ago with their productions of Sonja and Ice. This year it will bring a tragicomedy about the 60s called The Sounds of Silence or Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 Riga Concert.
The director Tim Carroll, who awed Hungarian audiences with his production of Hamlet in 2005, is returning with the same play to be performed with The Factory, from London, together with the Bárka Theatre's own troupe.
Among the new guests at the festival are Andrei Moguchi and the Formalni Theatre of St. Petersburg, who will perform a play based on Sasha Sokolov's A School For Fools.
The Hungarian products at the festival include Jorma Uotinen's Piaf Piaf, to be performed together with the Bárka Theatre company, and Andrea Ladányi and Gergő Borlai's BL.
Bárka Theatre director György Vidovszky will show the company's latest effort: a rendering of Ödön von Horváth's The Age of the Fish.
Detailed Programme
November 4
16:30 Café
The THEATRE is 40 Years Old - Talk with the editor of the professional journal THEATRE
18:45 Ampitheatre
Festival opening
19.00 Fencing Room (the theatre will provide a simultaneous interpretation of the production)
Sasha Sokolov: A School For Fools
The Formalni Theatre of St. Petersburg
director: Andrei Moguchi
20:45 Talk with Andrei Moguchi and the company
November 5
19:00 Studio
Kristof Agota: Hurt
Budapest Theatre Academy
director: Péter Forgács
20:30 Talk with Péter Forgács and the class
November 6-7
19:00 Fencing Room
The Sounds of Silence or Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Riga, 1968
New Theatre of Riga (a joint production of the New Theatre of Riga and the Berliner Festspiele)
director: Alvis Hermanis
22:00 Talk with Alvis Hermanis and the company
November 8
15:00 Studio
Ödön von Horváth- Kata Gyarmati: The Age of the Fish
Bárka Theatre
director: György Vidovszky
19:00 Fencing Room
Juha Siltanen-Jorma Uotinen: Piaf Piaf
Bárka Theatre
director: Jorma Uotinen
21:30 Talk with Andrea Ladányi and the company
November 9
19:00 Fencing Room
Shakespeare: Hamlet (theatrical experiment)
The Factory London - Bárka Theatre
director: Tim Carroll
22:00 Talk with Tim Carroll and the two companies
November 10
19:00 Fencing Room
BL
Gergő Borlai - Andrea Ladányi
20:15 Talk with Gergő Borlai and Andrea Ladányi
19:00 "Glove Factory" (Mátyás tér 15)
Shakespeare: Hamlet (theatrical experiment)
The Factory London - Bárka Theatre
director: Tim Carroll
November 11
19:00 Fencing Room
Sho-Bo-Gen-Zo
József Nagy Regional Creative Workshop
director: József Nagy
Talk with József Nagy and company
