18.11.2014. 8 PM
TERMÉSZETES VÉSZEK KOLLEKTÍVA & GÓBI RITA TÁRSULAT: aUTONOME ZONe
21-22.11.2014. 8 PM
Lola Arias (ARG): My life after
27-28.11.2014. 8 PM
In November, we'll have an unusual amount of female creative energies sweeping across the Trafó. Fashion, theater, dance, history and personal histories take shape thanks to foreign and local female artists.
On the 18th of November the internationally acclaimed Romanian writer-director Gianina Cărbunariu's documentary theater piece, PRINTED CAPITALS, is coming to the Trafó. Cărbunariu's latest work is taken from real stories and documents – the materials of archives come to life on the stage, with photos and records appearing in history appearing on stage. PRINTED CAPITALS is a teenager revolutionist's fight with the Romanian secret service, the Securitate. The heart-wrenching tale is both humane, significant and timely.
Before the performance, historian Stefano Bottoni will give a lecture on the work conducted in the archives of the Romanian State Security and the Romanians' way of facing the past, whilst Andrea Tompa will be hosting a post-performance discussion with the director.
In collaboration with the Collective of Natural Disasters, Rita Góbi's company, György Árvai and Tamás Kopasz, Edit Szűcs has created the body mask show entitled aUTONOME zONE, which is debuting on the 21st and 22nd of November. Stage and catwalk, dance and fashion, intensive visuals and special music all coalesce in this extreme production. Costume designer Edit Szűcs and her disciples from MOME created fabric compositions from special materials, which the members of Rita Góbi's company bring to life. The focus is on loneliness, enclosure and abandonment, with the outfits and the dancers' bodies playing the main role. aUTONOME zONE is a radical, poetic penetration behind the fabric itself; in order to achieve fabricless value and an emotional charge in which the dancers and the outfits surrounding them are united.
The South American trailblazer of documentary theater, Lola Arias introduces Hungarian audiences to the reality of the Argentine Peron's dictatorship on the 27th and 28th of November with her play entitled My life after. The artist treats the subject with a social sensitivity similar to Cărbunariu. Not only does the performance deal with the story of a community, but her own personal story as well, delivering an ambiguous interpretation of a slice of her homeland's history. The focus is on the parents' lives and the way their children view them and their era. Children of oppressors, the oppressed, former servants of the system and the people rebelling against the system, making peace with one another. My life after achieved huge success across the globe and after the performance's debut, the director was approached to produce a number of similar pieces. The fruit of this led to last year's performance of The year I was born. Lola Arias now follows up the success of last year's performance with another play at the Trafó.
In order to establish the context of the play, Tibor Kovácsy of Magyar Narancs will be giving a lecture on Argentina on the 28th of November at 6:30 PM.
