Szigligeti Theatre Offers Rich Program for The Day After Tomorrow

HolnapUtán Festival (meaning The Day After Tomorrow) offers a very diverse event series between 6–9 April in Oradea. There will be six theatre plays, a workshop, an exhibition, and concerts. Below, you can read the article published by daily newspaper Bihari Napló.

 

The schedule of the arts festival was announced on Tuesday, in the foyer of Szigligeti Theatre, at a press conference. Main organizer Márta Fazakas presented the guest plays that will be performed at the festival. The festival will open on the 6th of April, at 5 pm, on the stage of Arcadia Theatre, with the play Homemade by Hungarian State Theatre Cluj. The performance was created after a nine-month period of research and rehearsal, and is centered around the relationships between generations, especially parents and children. At 8 pm, on the big stage of Szigligeti Theatre, Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre Timişoara will perform their play titled Naive, Completely Frivolous Details in the Life and Death of the Audience. The monumental performance involves the whole company, and is directed by multiple award-winning, internationally acclaimed director Radu Afrim, talking about the different aspects of the relationship between actor and spectator in the ironic tone that is specific to him. This show will have Romanian interpretation.

 

Young Artists on the Stage

 

On the second day of the festival, on 7 April, students of the University of Arts Târgu Mureş and the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest will take the stage. The former will perform at 4 pm, on the stage of Arcadia Theatre, with their semi-improvised play Kiadjamagát, while the third year acting students from Budapest will present their musical show titled George&Cole on the big stage of Szigligeti Theatre. In the performance that will start at 7 pm, they will tell the story of composers George Gershwin and Cole Porter in a playful manner, conducted by György Selmeczi. The English-language show will be subtitled in Hungarian and Romanian. On 8 April, at 6 pm, Szigligeti Company will present its play Casting, in Szigligeti Studio.

 

HolnapUtán Project

 

On the last day of the festival, on 9 April, at 5 pm, HolnapUtán Project will be put to the stage of Szigligeti Studio. Márta Fazakas said that this project will feature 14 acting and directing students from the Carpathian Basin, giving them a chance to collaborate on a professional level. During the festival, participants will create a performance based on the texts written by young authors from Oradea, and will present it in the festival’s closing day, in Szigligeti Studio. Before the performance, Várad Cultural Magazine will present its second and third editions of this year – editor-in-chief László Szűcs has said. The festival itself will end with the play The Bourgeoise Gentleman by Tamási Áron Theatre Sf. Gheorghe.

Among the complementary events, there will also be an exhibition opening: graphic artist László Németh will exhibit a few of his theatre posters on the 8th of April, at 5 pm, in Szigligeti Studio. Budapest actors' band Pink Mojos and The Fuckfaces will give a concert on the 7th, at 10 pm, whereas Szigligeti Company's music band will play on the 8th at 9.30 pm, both also in the Studio.

 

Ticket Prices

 

For performances in Szigligeti Studio and Arcadia Theatre, tickets will cost 20 Lei, or 15 Lei for school and university students. For the three big stage shows, tickets are available at the price of 30 lei for the stalls or the back row of the boxes, whereas for the front seats of the boxes, 35 Lei. For the gallery, tickets cost 20 lei. For complementary events, and HolnapUtán Project, entrance is free. For the price of 40 Lei, a festival ticket is available that includes the three big stage shows. Manager Katalin Czvikker added: if there will be people who buy a festival ticket but are unable to come to one or more of the performances it includes, they will be able to validate unused entrances for any of the upcoming guest plays, with the exception of the plays that will take place during Festum Varadinum, for which the theatre will launch a separate festival ticket.

István Pap