Asterion Project presents Square- Theatre play in English

Asterion Project, a multicultural Theatre group based in Budapest will have a new premiere titled SQUARE! First premiere of Square will be in Wien on 8th of March and then on 14th of March in Budapest`s RS9 Theatre. 

After the big success of their last performance, Most Budapest, a comedy about foreigners living in Budapest, this time they picked up a different, more serious and sensitive topic.

Square touches topics like: human rights, ignorance, love, hate, humanity,crime, gender. It is inspired by Diana Son`s play Stop kiss,” a poignant, funny play about the ways both sudden and slow that lives can change irrevocably.” Callie is an unhappy traffic reporter on a New York tv channel. Sara is a highly dedicated teacher in an under-privileged neighborhood in the Bronx. What could they possible have in common? Well nothing it seems at first- Callie has grudgingly agreed as  a friend of a friend to look after Sara’s grumpy cat Caesar. They seem to irritate one another when they first meet. 

This taut drama has the underlying theme of the problem of acknowledging one’s sexuality and as the bond between the two women grows so does the tension.

A relationship that isn’t consummated can still provide a lot of humor and the comic timing between the two lead characters couldn’t be sharper as they grapple, our rather don’t with the physical side of their relationship. Throw in a couple of unsympathetic ex-boyfriends and the story gets more and more tangled. A chance kiss in a West Village street leads to a horrendous physical assault on Sara. The crime is treated with disdain by the police and bewilderment by the ex boyfriends.

And worse still Callie is reluctantly “ outed “ by the subsequent publicity. Just when you think the play couldn’t get gloomier there’s a kind of redemptive catharsis as Callie tells the speechless Sara “ choose me “, its a powerful and touching moment. What has kept “Square” fresh is its inventive dramatic structure. Square with its nonlinear storytelling that tackles both tragedy and comedy, is a tumble dryer of emotion.