The festival has aimed over the years to provide a showcase for theatre productions mostly from outside of the capital, Tibor Csizmadia, director of the Géza Gárdonyi theatre in Eger, which is hosting the festival, said on Sunday.
Eger considers it a pleasure to host the festival because of the opportunity it offers theatres which are outside of the Budapest mainstream, Csizmadia said.
In previous years, the festival has taken place in Budapest or in Gödöllő, which is just outside of Budapest.
The festival will feature performances of ten productions put on by theatres in Hungary as well as by those from ethnic Hungarian regions in neighbouring countries. Troupes will arrive from Beherove, Ukraine, Subotica, in Serbia, and Târgu Mureş in Romania.
This year?s programme will feature ?Who?s Afraid of Virginia Wolf??performed by a troupe from Szolnok, ?E-chat? by a theatre based in Kecskemét and ?The Witches of Eastwick? from Nyíregyháza. The Kaposvár theatre will perform two one-act plays by young directors: ?Fire Fighter? and a prose version of ?Bluebeard?s Castle?. Director Sándor Zsótér?s extraordinary Peer Gynt will be performed by the Krétakör troupe, who received the critics? award for the performance at the previous year?s festival. The Géza Gárdonyi Theatre and the troupe from Beherove in the Ukraine will both perform their own renditions of ?Uncle Pityu?s Son.?
Between 1986 and Hungary?s transformation to a multi-party democracy, the Studio Theatre Festival not only served as a venue for theatres from outside of the capital but for productions which were considered to be anti-system.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
