Tickets for this year’s edition of the Euroregional Theater Festival have gone on sale

The Hungarian State Theater “Csiky Gergely” organizes between May 19-26 the 15th edition of the Euroregional Theater Festival – TESZT, for which they went on sale online, from May 1, at https:// ticket.tm-t.ro/ro and at the theater box office, after the Easter holidays. The price is 50 lei for a show and 30 lei for a concert, or you can buy subscriptions for ten shows of your choice for 400 lei, and subscriptions for five shows of your choice for 200 lei, the latter costing be purchased only from the theater. Spectators have more than 20 events at their disposal – theater and dance performances, outdoor performances, contemporary music concerts.

The wars that are being waged today, the consequences of the pandemic and the economic crisis, the fear felt more strongly and insinuated by the mass media, global warming – all these represent new challenges for humanity and impose new rules in the world. For real change, courage and new approaches are needed, and TESZT shows – through its selection – that theater precisely mirrors the fluid paradigm of the new world.

The anniversary TESZT celebrates its 15th edition with the opening performance, “One Hundred Toasts”, directed by Bojan Jablanovec, from Via Negativa (Slovenia) – Sunday, May 19 from 4:00 p.m. in Sala Studio. At the anniversary, which will last seven days, the people of Timisoara can see performances from eleven countries, including Serbia, France, Croatia, Hungary, Greece, Germany, Slovenia – all for the first time in Romania – and the ten different languages ​​spoken on stage confirm openness and multiculturalism the festival. For the first time, the artists of the Livsmedlet theater in Finland will participate, with a non-verbal show on the theme of migrants – “Invisible lands”, in which the actors use their own bodies and hundreds of miniature figurines. Already loved by the people of Timisoara are the Italian actors from Teatro dei Venti, 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, they return to Timișoara cie. toula limnaios, with the show “staubkinder”, inspired by the music of Gustav Mahler, as well as the choreographer originally from Serbia Josef Nadj, who will present his newest creation – “Full Moon” in the world premiere. There are also older collaborators of the TESZT such as director Urbán András, with the show “Once upon a time in Novi Sad”, director Kristóf Szabó, with “Ismene dances”, a performance of visual arts, contemporary dance, theater and bondage, or artist Ivo Dimchev, with “Metch”, his recently created concert for the La MaMa theater in New York. Zagreb Youth Theater returns to TESZT with the show “Youth without God”, about the aggression of young people and their isolation from the real world due to online games and applications. Also a meditation on virtual and alternative reality is “Mindpolis 1.0”, created by Nenad Glavan, which raises the question to what extent the imaginary can protect us, as the last defense front, from such an impossible reality. The festival begins and ends with the productions of the host theater: on May 19, the show “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 exhibition of the Hungarian theater actor Mátyás Zsolt Imre will be opened, with drawings inspired by the show. Also, the Independent@TM section, co-organized with the proTESZT Association, includes the local bands Unfold Motion, the Basque Theater and the independent Arte-Factum Company, who have the opportunity to exhibit their latest performances in an international context: “The Story of Lost Stories”, “Solitudinii Monologues” and “Hunger”, which premieres at TESZT.

The complete program, with a description of the performances, can be consulted on www.teszt.ro and https://www.facebook.com/teszt.ro. The organizers will provide translations into Romanian, Hungarian and English for all performances – depending on the language in which they are performed. At the end of each day there will be talks with the artists, with simultaneous translation, where the audience can ask questions and connect with the performers and creators.