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Another Point of View
The Tickets for the TESZT Festival Went on Sale
The "Csiky Gergely" Hungarian State Theater is organizing the fifteenth edition of the Euroregional Theater Festival - TESZT between May 19-26, and tickets went on sale online and at the theater. Spectators have the possibility to enjoy more than 20 events - theater and dance performances, outdoor performances, contemporary music concerts.
Starting tomorrow, tickets for the shows can be bought online at https://ticket.tm-t.ro/ro for the price of 50 lei/show, and 30 lei/concert. After the Easter holidays, tickets can also be purchased at the theater box office (Strada Alba Iulia nr. 2) from Monday to Friday between 1 pm and 7 pm. TESZT also offers subscriptions for ten performances of your choice - for 400 lei, and subscriptions for five performances of your choice - 200 lei, and subscriptions can only be purchased from the Theatre. For additional information about tickets and subscriptions, please call 0356-450.606 or visit ticket@tm-t.ro. Membership packages also include, at your choice, a TESZT2024 bag or t-shirt.
The wars currently raging, the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and the economic crisis, the fear felt more strongly and insinuated by the media, global warming - all these represent new challenges for humanity and are reconfiguring the rules of the world we live in. For real change, courage and new approaches are needed, and TESZT shows - through its selection - that theater precisely mirrors the fluid paradigm we are living.
TESZT celebrates its 15th edition with the opening performance, "One Hundred Toasts", directed by Bojan Jablanovec, from Via Negativa (Slovenia) - Sunday, May 19 starting at 4pm in the Studio Hall. For its seven day anniversary, the people of Timisoara can see performances from eleven countries (including Serbia, France, Croatia, Hungary, Greece, Germany, Slovenia, etc.) - all for the first time in Romania - and the ten different languages spoken on stage stand for openness and multiculturalism For the first time, the artists of the Livsmedlet Theater from Finland will participate, with a non-verbal performance on the theme of migrants - "Invisible lands", in which the actors use their own bodies and hundreds of miniature figurines.
The Italian actors from Teatro dei Venti are already loved by the people of Timisoara, a troupe that returns for the third time to TESZT with "Pentesilea", a mythological show on stilts, organized in Libertății Square on May 21 and 22. Modena's Teatro dei Venti keeps the European heritage of street theater alive, renowned for its spectacular mobile sets and medieval costumes.
As for the contemporary dance performances invited from abroad, cie. toula limnaios come back to Timișoara, with the show "staubkinder", inspired by the music of Gustav Mahler, as well as the choreographer Josef Nadj, originally from Serbia, who will present his newest creation - "Full Moon" in world preview.
There are also older collaborators of the TESZT such as the director Urbán András (the show "Once Upon a Time in Novi Sad"), the innovative director Kristóf Szabó (with "Ismene Dancing", a performance of visual arts, contemporary dance, theater, and bondage art) or the complex artist Ivo Dimchev, with "Metch," his recently created concerto for New York's La MaMa Theater. The Zagreb Youth Theater returns to TESZT with the performance "Youth without God", about the aggressiveness of young people and their disconnection from the real world due to online games and apps. Another meditation on virtual and alternative reality is also "Mindpolis 1.0", created by Nenad Glavan, which leads us to the question: can the imaginary protect us, as the last defense, from such an impossible reality to accept?
The festival begins and ends with the productions of the host theater: on May 19 - "1978" directed by the Slovenian Tomi Janežič, nominated for two UNITER awards, and on May 26 - "Pericles" directed by the British Philip Parr. Before "Pericles", the opening exhibition of the Hungarian Theater actor, Mátyás Zsolt Imre, with drawings inspired by the show. Also, the Independent@TM section, co-organized with the support of proTESZT Association, includes the local theatres Unfold Motion, Basca Theater and the independent Arte-Factum Theatre Company - who have the opportunity to exhibit their latest performances in an international context: "The Story of Lost Stories", "The Solitude Monologues" and "Hunger" (which premieres at TESZT).
The full program, with a description of the performances, can be seen on the website and Facebook page of the festival. The organizers will provide translations into Romanian, Hungarian and English for all performances – depending on the original language of the show. At the end of each day, there will be talks with the artists (with simultaneous translation), where the audience can ask questions and interact with the performers and creators.