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The theme for this year's festival, organised again by the MASZK Association, is metamorphosis.
Since 2003, the festival organisers have paid special attention to alternative companies from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Among the troupes participating at this year's festival are Penoplast from Ukraine, Divadlo Continu from the Czech Republic, Croatia's Bacaci Sjnekitol (whose production BITEFen won the special jury prize at last year's festival), EastWest from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Space Theatre from the Netherlands, bringing their production Dutch Tsunami, which was a sensation at the LOW Dutch-Flemish cultural festival in Budapest this spring.
Hungary's Béla Pintér Company is expected to perform at the festival. Attila Héresz Menszátor will bring his monodrama Mari Jászai and the Arad Chamber Theatre and Szeged's Group of Seven will show their joint production The Ten Commandments of Rudolf Hess. The director Gábor Czeizel will show Adam, ADAM and adam.
Among the new productions will be OOOpheus, by Compagnie József Trefeli, For-Silence by Dénes Döbrei and Henrietta Varga, and Turbo Paradiso by the András Urbán Company.
For younger festival-goers, between the ages of 10 and 17, MASZK will offer five creative workshops, theatre performances, concerts, films and many other events. Performers on the "Maszk Adventure" programme include the Focus Workshop Children's Company, the pantomime artist Gábor Dvorák and the Kolibri Theatre.
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