The festival aims to show new directions in European as well as Hungarian theatre. Theatre performances, performance art, dance theatre, readers theatre, concerts, symposiums and film screenings are on the programme.
Via Negativa, perhaps the best known alternative theatre in Slovenia, will bring two productions to the festival: Would Would Not and Out, two of a seven-production series the troupe travels with.
Fragile! by the Mladisko Theatre, has won a dozen awards at festivals around the world over the past several years. The production asks the question: What are the chances for a young person in the European Union - a place without borders - who tries their luck in another member state, for example the UK?
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Maja Delak, Expensive Darlings (photo: bunker.si)
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The choreographer Maja Delak poses the question "Are performers socially handicapped?" in her piece Expensive Darlings. The production is a fine example of Slovenian political theatre that questions the position of contemporary dance.
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Simona Semenic: I, Victim (photo: cityofwomen.org)
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Simona Semenic, barely thirty, but already a well known playwright, producer and actor in Slovenia and abroad, will bring her production I, Victim to Budapest.
The choreographer Dave St-Pierre will come with A Little Tenderness For Crying Out Loud!, the second piece in his Sociology and other Utopias trilogy. The first part of the trilogy, The Pornography of Souls, was one of the most memorable performances at last year's festival.
Among the Hungarian productions on the programme is Collective of Natural Disasters, who will perform Death Tours, which brings audiences on a bus tour from venue to venue for this trilogy.
The TÁP Theatre will perform The Curators, a collaboration of some of Hungary's finest writers, actors and directors, in different spaces of the guerilla club Tűzraktér.
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Kalevala (photo: Tibor Oláh, MTI)
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The Sputnik Shipping Company will show The Tenement House Stories in an actual tenement house, and Fortedanse, led by Csaba Horváth, will perform the Finnish national epoch Kalevala as retold by the prize-winning poet and playwright Balázs Szálinger.
A conference on the state of theatre in Slovenia and a discussion of alternative ways to bring productions to the public will also take place within the framework of the festival. MASKA, a non-profit organization that specialises in interdisciplinary pieces of performance art, will contribute.
The festival will show screenings of some of the most important pieces of contemporary Slovenian cinema by the country's new generation of fimmakers. The organisers have also invited Fake Orchestra, a band that mixes Slavic folk elements with Latin Jazz and African tribal music, to perform.
