Budapest to host 4th International Theatre Festival in April

Budapest, January 24 (MTI) – Budapest will host the 4th international theatre festival showing 24 productions from eleven European countries between April 12 and 30 this year, an organiser said on Tuesday.

The festival will open with Waltz presented by Teatro Tascabile from Italy’s Bergamo, the director of the National Theatre, the event’s host, told a press conference.

On the opening day Poland’s Wroclaw Theatre company will perform Austrian author Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, Attila Vidnyanszky said.

He highlighted the presentation of Goethe’s Faust by the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Romania’s Sibiu (Nagyszeben) on April 27 and 28. The classic peace’s director is the international award winning Silviu Purcarete, he added.

The festival will feature performances by Hungarian theatre companies from neighbouring countries including The Rest by Attila Bartis from Targu Mures (Marosvasarhely) and Porno by Andras Visky from Satu Mare (Szatmarnemeti).