In their latest performance, the founders of dollardaddy’s — Kiss-Végh Emőke and Ördög Tamás — push at the boundaries between work and private life, as artists and as parents.

With the candor audiences have come to expect from them, they juxtapose the banality of everyday life with the desire for artistic self-realization and the current state of Hungarian cultural politics. They invite collaborators onto the stage — an actor, a dancer, a director, a set designer, a video artist, and their students — each bringing their own realities into the performance.

“(...) Kiss-Végh and Ördög talk about things that could very well be true of them as private individuals — but that’s beside the point, because what matters is that the same could be true of any Hungarian artist couple today, in Hungary in 2025. (...) Two themes wind around each other like vines struggling in vain to break out of the darkness of the undergrowth: the life of a creator — or any life at all — with two small children, and artistic burnout and/or hopelessness.” — Kovács Bálint, HVG