Within the framework of the project entitled Creating the show entitled Spirit of the Place, supported by UDMR and the Communitas Foundation, we realized our company’s latest performance, which increased the number of the Theatre in Education productions of WaitingRoom Project. The performance got a different title: All the things people like to talk about.
The performance was created in partnership with the Round Table Theater Education Association, and its text was written by Zsolt Csepei and Andrej Visky based on the idea of Zsuzsa Hajós. The starting point of the performance is one of the legends of the Hója Forest near Cluj-Napoca, famous for its paranormal phenomena, according to which a shepherd disappeared without a trace with 200 sheep. The story runs on two threads and two time planes: on the one hand in the years of incipient communism, when events that nurtured the legend took place, during which a hidden love ended tragically, and in the present, when the descendants of the aforementioned love live their troubled teenage years. The presentation thematizes the heritability of traumas across generations and their impact on the individual, but we discuss with participants topics such as adulthood, responsibility, friendship and honesty, secrets, and more.
Actors in the performance are: Zsolt Csepei, Levente Imecs-Magdó, Hunor-József Varga and Orsolya Veres, the performance was directed by Andrej Visky. The preview of the show was held on 31 May 2021 at ZUG, the company’s old studio. As the property, in which the ZUG is located, was sentenced to demolition, our team was forced to move on, so the actual premiere was held in the old synagogue on Paris Street, at ZIZ art and social area. The date of the premiere was July 5, 2021, as part of the second edition of the GézenZUG Children’s and Youth Theater Festival.
All the things people like to talk about aims especially teenagers, with age between 14-18 year, using TiE methods, accordingly, we’ve played the show eight times so far. The interactive conversation and board game following the performance provides an opportunity for really meaningful conversations.
The support received from the Communitas Foundation was used for the rent of the ZUG studio in May, as the actual rehearsals of the production fell during this period. We would like to thank the Communitas Foundation for its financial support!
