EX CATHEDRA PARABLES FROM THE 90’S
Commodore 64, basketball cards, Britney Spears, Kosovo war, Monica Lewinsky, DuckTales and the death of democratic Hungary’s first prime minister.
Hungary in the nineties – through the eyes of a child.
Schedule
Two actors, two dancers, a graphic designer and a manager. And they all work in one theatre company in present-day Hungary.
During the quarantine, they recalled where they came from, what it was like to grow up in the 90s, and what it means to have been born at the crux of the 1989 regime change. A central question developed: In what ways was this generation molded by the most important place in their lives at that time, by primary school?
The mixed-media, document-based performance is a chain of personal stories from the players, an imprint of a special and formative period – the first day of school, to the beginning of adolescence.
Some of the players are from the countryside, some are from the suburbs, and some are from “the better side” of the capitol. There are those whose families were crippled by the regime change, and some whose luck was made by it. Some attended progressive, alternative schools, while others studied in a hard-line Prussian system.
The stories depict universal childhood phenomena, such as school abuse and racism, forbidden love and best-friendship, competition and failure, integration difficulties, and teacher arbitrariness.
Jurányi House
The Jurányi Production Community Incubator House has become a key venue in the capital's cultural life, a vibrant hub of the contemporary art scene.
Our aim in creating the Jurányi was to find a stable, shared home for the independent theatre and creative arts sector, providing the infrastructure necessary for its day-to-day operations. We wanted to create a cultural centre in the Buda area, a "contemporary art house" where theatre-loving young people could spend a few hours over a coffee or even a theatre performance, a creative children's activity or an acrobatic movement class, thus re-filling the abandoned educational institution with an active community life.
Jurányi is more than just a theatre in Buda, it is a creative and creative base where visitors can enjoy a varied artistic, community, and educational program, in addition to a regular repertoire of 300 productions a year. We are proud that the Jurányi House is now a graduation subject in some art schools.
