Monday, 26 May 2008

Twenty-third note

The Theatre Ensemble of Sepsiszentgyörgy is here in Budapest. They perform 4 or 5 times different plays, the Yvonne aswell, which I have followed the rehearsals of. Yesterday we watched with Bence a solo performance of a young actress, which I have heard about from her, but haven't seen, because she did'nt play it during the two months, while I was there.
She was the only actor, who was there from the ensemble yesterday, but I met with some of the crew: one of the stage manager womans, who's laughter is strong like a lion's roar; Olga, an always smily tire-woman, who introduced herself to me like this: "I'm Olga from the county..."; a property woman; some technicians and stage hands. It was so much pleisure to see and meet with them, to hear their usual (and actually very lousy) signal at the begining of the show, asking you the switch off your mobile.
I am looking forward so much to see how far did they get with the Yvonne since the premier, when I last seen it, and meet them. They are going to play it tonight in the studio of National Theatre.
They told me they are going to renew one of the plays, which tehy used to play a few years ago, and which were famous about, happy to hear, that I can see a version of The Miracle (A csoda - it is an adaption of Tamási Áron plays, who is a Transylvanian playwright and the nominal of their theatre.) Maybe we could visit the town after our summer workshop, what do you think? I definatly one to go and see, but to go with you to Taize is maybe more tempting.
Wednesday we are going with Zsófi and another girl to Pennabilli, a small village in Italy for a street theatre performance. Just a few days, on next Tuesday we are returning already. Hich-hiking again. But this time not alone. God bless.

Sunday, 25 May 2008

Twenty-second note

I have seen an interesting performance, full of energy of young people, students from high school. It was something unusual, unexepcted from a high-school group, I like they have the braveness to leave the path of high-school theatre groups. Their leader is guy nearly my age, which I think is also great for them, and for him aswell. It is not a routin for him how to lead a group like this, how to work with them without text, based mainly on confronting them with themselves.
When one has no routin, of course it takes longer time to reach results, and of course he makes mistakes, but these mistakes are useful, and they are signs of true intention.
Before and aftrewards I had some beers with friends, and friends of friends.
We are busy organizing the international workshop. Lot of questions. I invited another girl, Dorka, who studies directing in Transylvania to lead the workshop with me. It would be inspiring to create something together but with different aspects off different leaders. The idea is, that each person works with each leader, and at the end we put some scenes together in one work demonstration.