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In Theatre Minority

In this proposal intended to provoke a debate we deal with companies that form a ‘theatrical minority‘ -  either an ethnical one (the Roma Theatre) a religious one (Jewish Theatre) or ones representing social minorities (theatres of the disabled, the homeless or the imprisoned.)

Our aim is partly to analyse how much these temporary companies (that sometimes, become permanent over time) are present in Hungarian Theatre Life. Do we know them, do we follow their work, or they receive no response at all. How can these companies represent a community and address a wilder audience? More over we need to analyse how important a role does the articulation of their problems play in their performances, (which texts are written or chosen by them.) How does self-representation and self-definition determine their choices of plays?

Shortly we mention some more well-known examples: the period of Maladype‚s career, when it was definitely a Roma Theatre (Jocques, or the Submission, A School for Fools), the workshops of Theatre Golem and their cultural activity (translations, festivals), Baltazar Theatre which strongly changed the picture about the disabled (Gondolj rám szívesen, Repülési engedély angyaloknak); and we also search the reason why some other experiments fell through: the theatre of the homeless (Gogol: Revisor) - and the attempts on Prison Theatre.