Gábor Thury - Lili Thury - Zita Thury: Social parasites

In their community theatre performance, Gábor Thury, Lili Thury and Zita Thury start from a family heritage: their grandfather played an important role in the cultural organisation of the workers' movement, which was banned in the 1930s. Among other things, he produced performances with movement and recitation choirs, giving a voice and a platform for self-expression to the working class of the time. Maintaining the all-round, community character of a hundred years ago, the three brothers present a typical 21st century working class: the freelancers.

For nearly a year, the creators and participants of the performance have been reflecting together on the relationship between work and leisure, the burdens and beauties of freelancing, vulnerability, constraints, self-exploitation and burnout.

Drawing on the experiences of the research process and on archival material from the 1920s and '20s, this presentation explores life situations in which the boundaries between leisure and work, work and private life are increasingly blurred, and which are so similarly different as to be worth addressing in community.

Gábor Thury, Lili Thury and Zita Thury are sisters, working in different artistic fields. Their common interest is in participatory, collaborative creative practices, which is the focus of several of their separate works to date.