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It’s indeed touching when life delights us with coincidences like the April performance of IMITATION OF LIFE! Since premiering it at Trafó on 27 April 2016, we have presented it in front of audiences in Austria, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Greece, the Czech Republic, Italy, Bosnia, Finland, Spain – and of course Hungary. This year on 27 April, exactly seven years after the premiere, we return to Trafó to celebrate our 100th performance!
Proton Theatre’s 2023 premier is visiting the Gyula Castle Theatre on the 12th April. Lili Monori’s subjective, honest and unique vision will whisk us back to the ’60s.
"It is particularly remarkable that a Hungarian company should be dealing with migrants and making them the subject of one of their productions. In Winterreise, the internationally acclaimed film and theater director Kornél Mundruczó and his Proton Theatre explore what it means to be a refugee today."
Roland Rába is not only the Proton Theatre's nominee for this year's Attila Kaszás Award,
and he is not an integral part of Proton Theatre only.
Roland Rába is a true creator, actor and director, and we are crossing our fingers for him to win this year’s award with your votes!
On the occasion of the Proton Theatre's guest appearance at Teatro Bellini in Naples with their production Imitation of Life, actress Lili Monori was interviewed by Lorenzo Codelli, an Italian film critic, staff member of Festival du Film Positif and advisor to the Cannes International Film Festival.
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We have conducted a special interview about the piano version of WINTERREISE. We hope that you’ll enjoy our interview with János Szemenyei (the actor and singer in the production) and Károly Mocsári (the pianist), who will now have a Q and A with each other - a genre we call the “Ping Pong Interview”.
Winterreise performances in Budapest and Gyula.
PROTON features Gábor Reisz: I AM SERIOUSLY LUDICROUS
Launched in Brussels in May 2010, Hard to Be a God has since toured Europe and Australia. In a few weeks' time, we will be pulling up the canvases on the sides of our trucks for the last time.
Two cultural portals have listed Imitation of life among the best theatre productions of the last decade.
Anyone who's been lucky enough to see the set of Imitation of life live, or even a photo of it, will have an idea about how much work is needed to build it, take it apart, transport it to a new location and then put it back together again. It's not just walls and objects, it's a complete interior of an apartment. In August, we will manage this feat once again when we perform the production in Budapest on the 4th and in Tampere, Finland on the 5th.
But where can something spread after 150 performances? After Europe, South Korea and Chile? Fortunately, the world is still full of untouched areas, so after last year's smash hit Hard to be a God, this year we're storming Gyula, or more specifically, the Gyula Castle Theatre, with the 152nd Frankenstein-project, adapted from Mary Shelley's cult novel.
Film director, Gábor Reisz, who has such cult titles in his filmography as the feature films For Some Inexplicable Reason and Bad Poems, is preparing to direct his first theatre work.
Proton Theatre's performance Evolution will be on the program of ARTE from middle of August till middle of November. Critics considered this production by Kornél Mundruczó to be the best of Ruhrtriennale in 2019. Moreover, some of the critics claimed it was the best production ever in the history of the biggest German cultural festival.
The very first production of the Proton Theatre celebrates its 150th performance in September.
10 years after its Brussels world premiere, the Proton Theatre's production Hard to Be a God will be presented at the Gyula Castle Theater Summer Festival.
Theater Freiburg managing director Peter Carp has invited Kornél Mundruczó to stage a performance of The Seven Deadly Sins / Motherland. This co-production with the Proton Theater will be performed on eight occasions throughout the summer.
This production from the Proton Theater has toured the stages of the most prestigious festivals in Europe, including the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, the KunstenFestivalDesArts in Brussels, the Avignon Festival, and in 2013 won the prizes for Best Directing (Kornél Mundruczó) and Best Stage Design (Márton Ágh) at the Pécs National Theater Festival.
Lili Monori has starred in over 60 films. In addition to her film oeuvre, she has been active in the theatre ever since the beginning of her career. She joined the Proton Theatre upon its foundation in 2009.
The Hellerau of Dresden will host the German premiere of the Proton Theater’s production The Ice. Joining them on this special occasion will be Vladimir Sorokin, the author of the 2003 novel of the same title upon which it was based, for a reading in the original Russian.
This production based on György Ligeti’s Requiem presents the story of three generations of a single family. This world premiere created by the Proton Theatre lies on the boundary between the genres of concert and theatre. Kornél Mundruczó’s staging analyses the theme of repetition.
Is it an Electron? No! Is it a Neutron? No! This is PROTON! And it's been around for ten years!
Kornél Mundruczó’s production will celebrate its 75th performance in Bologna at the beginning of March.
From January 2019, 1 link, created by Proton Theatre and directed by Gergely Bánki, will appear at the Katona József Theatre's basement space, the Sufni. It stars Vilmos Vajdai as a man who spends all his free time at home surfing the internet.
The Raft of the Medusa, an oratory by Hans Werner Henze, was inspired by Théodore Géricault's famous painting by the same name from 1819. Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, this installation of the Proton Theatre aims to tell its story – one that is universally valid and spans different eras – from a unique perspective.
During this year's kick-starter tour, the 50th performance of Imitation of Life will take place in the MC93 Bobigny in Paris, on the 9th of February.
On 16th December 2017, the new production of Proton Theatre will open at the studio stage in Madách Theatre. Finding Quincy, which is directed by János Szemenyei and is based on István Kormos’ works, marks the theatre company’s first family performance.
After the success of Dementia a few years back, once again a Proton Theatre production was awarded at the Baltic House Festival.
It’s the first time in the history of the prize that a non-German theatrical production is nominated.
Following several performances in Hungary, the special concert of Proton Theatre is making its international debut on 19th September 2017 at Fremd bin ich... (I am a stranger...), a festival about Winterreise, Franz Schubert's essential work in music history.
Imitation of life, a play directed by Kornél Mundruczó, has been invited to a number of festivals and won several awards since its premiere in 2016.
Proton Theatre's new production will have its international premiere on 21st May 2016 at the Wiener Festwochen.
Nine years after the premiere, Kornél Mundruczó's Frankenstein-project celebrates its 125th performance on 8th May in Trafó.
Before a longer tour abroad, Proton Theatre's new production premiered in Budapest.
On 27th November, Kornél Mundruczó's new production has its premier within MuCEM, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée's theater program in Marseille.
Theatre, film and music are intertwined in Budapest Music Center where Kornél Mundruczó's Winterreise has its premiere on 3rd and 4th October during CAFé Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival.
Jake Smiles, the protagonist lives, kills and loves online. Jakes Smiles, the name of the author is an alias, a so called nickname on the internet. Gergely Bánki dramatizes the first online novel of Hungarian literature in Proton Theatre’s new production.
Disaster, quarantine, massacre and romance. The world of zombie movies comes to life on the stage in the new coproduction of Proton Theatre and Trafó, in which a handful of people shut in a shopping mall demonstrate the extreme reactions given to panic situations.
Kornél Mundruczó's play will jubilee in the French city's Maillon Theatre.
Proton Theatre opened Dementia, a new production within the framework of the CAFé Budapest Contemporary Art Festival. The Budapest audience had a chance to see the new piece, directed by Kornél Mundruczó at the Trafó.
From the beginning of this season Proton Theatre, led by Kornél Mundruczó and Dóra Büki, will not only be heard about by its tours abroad, but for the first time in the life of the company the Hungarian audience can see their productions on a monthly basis on the program of their permanent partner institution, the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts.
In his first directorial work in Poland, Kornél Mundruczó depicts the depths of the human soul pretending to be God. The performance, which opens at TR Warsaw, analyses the different aspects of euthanasia in two parallel stories. The Bat is the first part of a trilogy about the subject of suicide.
After our highly successful tours in Vienna and Brussels, Disgrace has arrived to Budapest. The Budapest audience has a chance to see the production on four nights, between June 15th and 18th at the Trafó.
After an intensive two-month-long rehearsal period on May 17th, within the framework of the Wiener Festwochen, the Proton Theatre opens a new production.
Strasbourg, Wiesbaden, Nitra, Paris, Krakow, Brussels, Vienna, Ljubljana, Vilnius, Riga, Rotterdam, Karlsruhe, Belgrade, Seoul, Santarcangelo and then again BUDAPEST, so we can celebrate the 100th performance at home.
Rehearsals of Disgrace, the latest production of Proton Theatre, have already begun. The performance is directed by Kornél Mundruczó, and it is based on the novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee.
Proton Theatre's play will jubilee during a two-week guest performance at the Adelaide Festival in Australia.