Flashback Archívum - 10th Theatre Olympics

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.

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"From great ideas come great performances" - Romanian director Anca Bradu on the Madách Project

Anca Bradu, Director and Professor of the Department of Theatre Directing at the UNATC I. L. Caragiale University of Theatre and Film Arts, wrote about the international programme of events involving young theatre professionals and actors.

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“Young Barbarians”: Non-serious Seriousness and Hungarian Drive

They say the best way to get to know each other is to go on a trip. The best way to get to know contemporary theatre is to go to the Theatre Olympics.

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“Report to an Academy”: To Be or Not to Be Human?

As part of the Theatre Olympics, the director Savvas Stroumpos is presenting his production, Report to an Academy, created at Zero Point Theatre, of which he is the chief director.

Attis Theatre: Nora - photo: Johanna Weber

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Nora: Present continuous hell

Theodoros Terzopoulos, whose play Nora (Attis Theatre) opened the MITEM festival as part of this year’s Theatre Olympics in Hungary and which has resonated around the world, proved once again to be a master of this art.

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Valery Fokin: ‘Spectators want genuine human encounters'

András Kozma asked the Russian director Valerij Fokin about the Theater Olympia.

Psyche scene in the labyrinth - photo: Zsolt Eöri Szabó

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It Has Been a Real Inauguration of Theatre

A Flash Report on MITEM 2016

Huseyn Alp Tahmaz: Where to?, Ankara State Theatre (d: Volkan Özgömet) - photo: Eöri Szabó Zsolt

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Self-Identity and Artist’s Existence

Flash Report on MITEM 2014 Productions