Uniting the world through theatre: Madách Project 2023 – video

2023. June 21.
# 10. Theatre Olympics, Madách Project, Madách200

2023. June 21.

# 10. Theatre Olympics, Madách Project, Madách200

200 young artists arrived in Budapest more than 10 days ago to bring Imre Madách’s The Tragedy of Man to life in a unique performance on 23 June, directed by Attila Vidnyánszky. We visited the participants of the 11-language performance at the Eiffel Workshop House.

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Bianca Temneanu: ’I realized that theatre still exists’

We continue our series of reports on the Madách Project. The following is the testimony of Bianca Temneanu, who is doing her Masters in stage directing at the I. L. Caragiale University of Theatre and Film Arts, who, together with two colleagues, staged three scenes of The Tragedy of Man and participated in the artistic process in Hungary.

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George Zamfir: 'We were united in diversity'

One of the highlights of the 10th Theatre Olympics was the Madách Project 2023, a program based on the idea of Attila Vidnyánszky, organised by the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. Student director George Zamfir wrote to színház.org about his experience of creating the performance.

Two summer opera productions highlight travails of great rulers

Attila, one of Verdi’s early opera scores that focus on heroic figures in history, was presented in the Margit Island Theatre on August 12, the second operatic treat, presented at the Eiffel Art Studios on August 22, was Karol Szymanowsky’s King Roger. This opera was one of hundreds of events included in the 2023 Theatre Olympics.