On 28 September starts the theater festival “Tranzit Feszt” organized by the North Theater Satu Mare Harag György with the Romanian section.

In connection with this event, Orban Nagy, general director of the theater, held a press conference on Wednesday in the theater’s cafeteria with Istvan Bessenyei Gedo and Ovidiu Caiţa.

Orban Nagy highlighted in his welcome speech: he considers it important that the theater has its own festival, which this year will be themeed: it centralizes around identity.

Ovidiu Caiţa, the artistic director of the Romanian section and the lecturer of the performances in Romanian, underlined that performances near the theme of identity also deal with the Romanians’ relationship with the Hungarians, and with the nuances of coexistence.

Istvan Bessenyei Gedo, Harag Gyorgy’s artistic director, as the lecturer of the Hungarian language performance, said: 27 performances appear in the festival program, alongside the program the band will participate in a workshop with the leadership of Tagirovsky Sardar. In addition to performances, there are also book releases and professional conversations.

During the ten days of the festival a lot of precious performances can be seen in Hungarian by the audience in Satu Mare through the presence of the team at “Tamási Áron” Theater from Sf. Gheorghe, “Csokonai” National Theater from Debrecen, National Theater from Miskolc, the Hungarian State Theater Cluj and the “Csiky Gergely” Theater from Kaposvár. The program also features the Chicago Trap Door Theater and the Eugen Ionesco Theater from Chisinau, and many others.

Through the Romanian performances, the festival honors the Year of the Centenary, and the Hungarian program contains a special performance (in the play by Juliet de Visky Andras, directed by Szabó K. István from the Csokonai National Theater from Debrecen, which the EC Association hosted together with the Harag Band György for Visky Ferenc’s 100-year-old memorial year.

The performances are more in Romanian with Hungarian language subtitles, the performances will be analyzed by free discussions in the theater buffet.

Source: Szatmar