Round Table TIE Company – InSite Drama: The Giant’s Embrace

Uncle Laci, a dustbin man, is about to become a pensioner as of tomorrow, and he is simply clueless about what he should do with himself. To top it all, his young colleague Bence keeps inventing stories from any piece of rubbish he comes across. What an impossible situation!

Finding themselves outside a nursery group room, the two dustbin men agree to enter so that Bence can tell one last story about Jancsi, a puppet he has made from plastic rubbish, before he finally stops. At least for today.

 In Bence’s story, the Giant, who used to be a friend of the people, has become extremely greedy. He is unable to control his hunger, and gobbles up anything and everything that comes his way. As the Giant cares about nothing else but his giant belly, the people end up with nothing left to eat and the world is left starving.

Only one boy, Jancsi, is brave enough to go into the dark forest to find food for his family. During his journey he sees the devastation caused by the Giant, and also meets animals that are in trouble, whom he selflessly helps. But what can he do to save himself when he finds himself locked in the greedy Giant’s terrible embrace?

The end of the tale is created and performed with the active participation of the group of children in the audience. Even Uncle Laci can learn something from the story, and the children are encouraged to give him advice about what he should do with all the free time he will have in his retirement.

“Simple objects and many, many creative ideas make this performance playful and the story natural and simple. Even as adults we are surprised by how a broken umbrella and some glasses can turn someone into an owl, or into a deer with the addition of some twisted cables. Our eyes and imagination become trained to make something out of ‘nothing'”. Lilla Turbuly, spirituszonline.hu

InSite Drama's vision is to facilitate facing up to the most pressing problems of our times through drama, and to enable changes in how individuals understand their own values and standpoints, so that they are able to act responsibly in society and become active agents of change.

The organisation’s work primarily affects – directly or indirectly – the youth and children age groups. To achieve greater social impact we also work with decision makers, communities and higher education institutions.

The organisation works at an international level, mostly in Europe, but connects to professionals worldwide.

Round Table TIE Co.’s mission is to give young people the opportunity to explore and understand the most relevant questions of our time through theatre-based artistic work. Our mission is to create social change based on new understanding brought about by artistic engagement. Round Table has been working since 1992, and was the first NGO working with theatre in education in Central Europe. We provide approximately 200 TIE programs annually, training courses for teachers, teaching aids and support for other organizations. Round Table is regularly invited to Hungarian Children’s Theatre Festivals and our artistic work has been awarded prizes on several occasions.