**8 March** - free entrance
**9 March 8.30 PM** - free entrance
**9 March 10 PM** - 1000 HUF
**10 March 6 PM** - free entrance
**10 March 8 PM** - 1000 HUF
“Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.” Luis Buñuel
PanoDrama production
In Hungariann
I never liked political theatre. But what I would like even less is not talking about what’s going on in Hungary today. That we perform Chekhov and Feydeau as if murderous racism weren’t back on the streets and as if we weren’t forced to read slogans from the thirties on the walls and in some papers.
It is the whys and wherefores that we are searching for in these three days. But one thing is certain: Hungary never faced its fascist past. Just like Austria hasn’t until very recently. And since Hungarian dramatists don’t yet seem to want to write about what is happening around them, it is with Elfriede Jelinek that we try to find the cause and start discussing possible solutions. (Anna Lengyel, founder of PanoDrama)
PROGRAMME
Monday, 8 March 2010
7 PM - Elfriede Jelinek: Sportsplay
Einar Schleef’s legendary performance recorded from the Vienna Burgtheater
location: Studio
Free entrance
Duration: 270 minutes
The Hungarian text will be available for purchase in Dezső Tandori’s translation.
A triumphant marathon show, the great German director’s 1996 staging of Ein Sportstück canonized Elfriede Jelinek, who had earlier been chastised by right-wing papers for “fouling in her own nest”, as one of the most significant German-speaking playwrights of our days.
Courtesy of the Burgtheater
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Open University Lecture Series: The Pathology of Hating What’s Different
8.30 PM Eszter Fischer, psychologist: Enough of calling them Jews jolly names!
Let’s face our past and learn from it like Germany does
10 PM Elfriede Jelinek: Rechnitz
rehearsed reading with the HoppArt Company
1000 HUF
March 24, 1945. The Russian troops are but a few miles away from the small town of Rechnitz on the Austro-Hungarian border, when the lady of the local castle, Countess Batthányi organizes a fun hunting feast with her lover Joachim Oldenburg and the family friend and local Nazi leader, Franz Podezin to shoot and murder one-hundred and eighty starved and humiliated Jewish forced labour-workers, who they then throw into a mass grave. After the war Austrian authorities pressed charges against the perpetrators several times, but since a few key witnesses were killed, others took their statements back. The guilty parties never spent a single day in prison for their particularly heinous crime and the mass grave was never found. Elfriede Jelinek was commissioned by the Munich Kammerspiele to write the play and the production was presented at the 2009 Autumn Festival in Budapest.
Hungarian translation: Zoltán HALASI
With: Andor LUKÁTS, Zsolt MÁTHÉ, Judit POGÁNY, Csilla RADNAY, Kálmám SOMODY, Nóra Diána TAKÁCS
Creative producer: Anna LENGYEL
Production Assistant: Tímea CSÓKA
Directed by: Csaba POLGÁR
Performance Rights: Rowohlt Verlag
Performance Rights in Hungary: Creativ Media
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
6 PM Theater-in-education
presentation about the topic of hatred of the Roma with Romany and other youths
Free entrance
PanoDrama commissioned the actor and TIE teacher Yvette Feuer to do a ten-day workshop with young Romanies from Budapest, Barcs and Pécs and young people of all colours, in the theme of hatred and discrimination against the Roma.
Followed by a discussion.
8 PM Elfriede Jelinek: Stecken, Stab und Stangl
Workshop presentation
1000 HUF
Preceding the April premiere of PanoDrama we organize a workshop and present its result this evening. About the play see the April programme.
Hungarian translation: HALASI Zoltán
With: Eszter CSÁKÁNYI, Ágnes KASZÁS, Péter SCHERER, Marianna SZALAY, Ádám TOMPA
Creative Producer: Anna LENGYEL
Directed by: Róbert PEJÓ
Production Assistant: Tímea CSÓKA
Performance Rights: Rowohlt Verlag
Performance Rights in Hungary: Creativ Media
10 PM Round table discussion with the artists and invited guests including András Vágvölgyi B.
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