Roma Heroes Worldwide Theater Pageant, Sixth Version

Impartial Theater Hungary presents the Roma Heroes Worldwide Theater Pageant, Sixth Version, livestreaming on the commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community at howlround.television from Wednesday 20 March to Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

On the VI. Roma Heroes Worldwide Theatre Pageant the Impartial Theater Hungary had the chance to get to know untold tales of generations by the productions of 5 totally different Roma theaters. Italian, Swedish, Romanian, and Hungarian creators draw from their very own experiences to current the less-known points of European historical past.

Persevering with the custom of the European Union’s first worldwide Roma theatre encounter, the sixth version of the Roma Heroes Worldwide Theatre Pageant befell in Budapest from 27 November to three December. The pageant program, which mixes totally different artwork kinds—music, literature, and performing arts—is for all those that go to the theatre to get to know new worlds and query their very own traditional factors of view.

Wednesday 20 March

Giuvlipen: Viral on Tiktok
(Romania)
10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

Within the efficiency by Giuvlipen Theater Firm, we witness a deeply transferring overview of the shortage of sexual schooling affecting Romanian society, significantly the Roma communities, and its tangible societal penalties. TikTok, because the at the moment hottest social media platform, supplies a superb framework for the play. The manufacturing, navigating at borders of varied genres, portrays the lifetime of two teenage women discussing the contradictions surrounding feminine sexuality, the abuses related to the parable of virginity, the traps of oversexualized magnificence beliefs, or the sins dedicated by faith and compelled marriages in opposition to girls.

Author and Director: Mihaela Drăgan
Solid: Nicoleta Ghiță, Bianca Mihai
Music: Andrei Horjea
Choreography: Răzvan Rotaru, Corina Platon
Set Design: Ileana Zirra
Costume Design: Zita Moldovan
Photograph: Amalia Drăniceanu

Thursday 21 March

Impartial Theater Hungary: Rotting Birds
(Hungary)
10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

The tearful-laughing punk opera written and directed by Rodrigó Balogh is predicated on a real story, specializing in the forgotten Roma creator, József Holdosi. Imre, the grandfather, sues his grandson, József. The grandfather believes that József has offended him, his deceased family, and his present spouse in his novel. His social relationships have suffered, his persona has been broken, and he even contracted a deadly sickness as a result of content material of the guide in query. In accordance with József, the novel is simply fiction, a figment of his creativeness. Who is correct? The efficiency reveals the story of a household torn aside by generational curses. Is there a restrict to artistic freedom? What results will be triggered in our households and communities, if we dare to speak in regards to the ugly stuff?

Author and Director: Rodrigó Balogh 
Solid: Dávid Varga, Orsolya Balogh 
Dramaturg: Tímea Éva Bogya 
Music: Dávid Varga 
Music Collaborator: István Babindák 
Set: Péter Gyenei 
Photograph: Zsófia Sivák

Friday 22 March

Impartial Theater Hungary: Builders of a Nation
(Hungary)
10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

Though many see the vast majority of Roma folks as unemployed, Roma employees have at all times performed an vital position in constructing homes. A very long time in the past entire generations of Roma constructed homes from mud bricks. Within the twentieth century many Roma began working in brick factories. Right this moment many Roma work within the building trade.

The efficiency written and directed by Rodrigó Balogh and Márton Illés narrates the societal adjustments in socialist and later free Hungary by the struggles of three generations. It celebrates the unseen builders of Hungarian historical past. The manufacturing is impressed by actual occasions and people, however leaves loads of room for creativeness. What can a Roma folks hold and what should they offer as much as discover their place among the many majority? How do the numerous sacrifices have an effect on their household and private relationships?

Author and Director: Rodrigó Balogh and Márton Illés
Solid: Dávid Csányi, Ramóna Farkas, Nóra Nemcsók, Tamás Szegedi
Dramaturg: Tímea Éva Bogya 
Music: Dávid Varga and István Babindák
Set: Péter Gyenei
Photograph: Zsófia Sivák

Photograph: Amalia Drăniceanu

Monday 25 March

Rampa Prenestina: Romnia
(Italy)
10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

Within the efficiency titled “Romnia” by the Italian Rampa Prenestina Firm, the societal roles of Roma and non-Roma girls take middle stage. On the coronary heart of the story stands the statue of Saint Sarah, which the inhabitants of the small group depicted on stage are required to decorate and put together for a standard procession. Through the ceremony, private tales come to life, the place the statue turns into a mirror of desires and the experiences of social pressures for the feminine members from totally different generations. It’s a celebration by which rituals of affection, expectations, and the transformation or preservation of identification are revealed. When the procession reaches its finish, the statue turns into sacred, and a collective prayer for freedom is recited.

Adaptatated and directed by: Nino Racco
Music: Sebastian Spinella
Solid: Demila Durmis, Roxana Ene, Catherine Di Carlo Campaz, Erik Nikolic, Sebastian Spinella
Photograph: Amalia Drăniceanu

Wednesday 27 March

Coronary heart Voice Firm: Nice Expectations
(Hungary)
10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

The efficiency by the Coronary heart Voices Firm was created in collaboration with Parfórum, Sajátszínház, Szomolyai Hungarian Roma Affiliation, and the Emma Affiliation, with the steering of sociodrama leaders Eszter Pados and Kata Horváth. The artistic course of was preceded by complete analysis centered on abuses associated to sexism and racism skilled by Roma girls, moms, healthcare employees, and institutional techniques revolving round feminine existence and motherhood. What we see on stage is nothing however the tales and experiences of various generations in the actual world.

Director: Edit Romankovics
Sociodrama Leaders: Eszter Pados and Kata Horváth
Solid: Báder Renáta, Csörgőné Polgár Andrea, Horváth Barbara, Horváth Rita, Horváth Róbert, Horváth Zsanett, Juhacsek Ildikó, Kádár Szonja, Kárpáti Liza, Lakatos Anett, Lakatos Marianna, Lakatos Rudolf, Szabó Róza, Szitai Natália
Set Design: Gabriella Kiss
Photograph: Gabriella Csoszó

Wednesday 27 March

Lindy Larsson & The BonBon Band: Tschandala/Tattaren
(Sweden)
10 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).

The  Swedish award-winning actor, singer and Roma activist artist Lindy Larsson, together with the multi-award-winning BonBon Band, explores an undisclosed a part of Swedish historical past of their joint efficiency titled Tschandala/Tattaren. The manufacturing, which just lately gained the Swedish Critics’ Award, delves into numerous genres. The muse of the present is August Strindberg’s anti-Roma novel “Tschandala,” in addition to Larsson’s private and familial historical past. The artist himself hails from a Swedish touring Roma household, who skilled unimaginable atrocities in opposition to the Roma in Sweden, which have by no means discovered their means into historical past books.

Author: Lindy Larsson, Stefan Fross, August Strindberg
Directed by Lindy Larsson
Performer: Lindy Larsson
Music: Bon Bon Band
Design: Delaine Le Bas, Stefan Forss
Photograph: Per Bolkert