{"id":4529,"date":"2025-04-22T02:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2025-05-04T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:10:08","slug":"mettrin-a-hungarian-cultural-institution-devoted-to-openness-diversity-and-sustainability-in-performing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/en\/mettrin-a-hungarian-cultural-institution-devoted-to-openness-diversity-and-sustainability-in-performing-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mettrin &#8211; A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Mettrin &#8211; A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">by Dr. Kyriakos Loukakos<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote1anc\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, Hon. President of the Greek Drama and Music Critics\u2019 Union (est. 1928)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Mettrin as a holistic architectural and cultural concept<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Mettrin does not mean anything specific! It just may be some cryptic combination of letters and their latent meanings. Yet, it corresponds to a nascent and ambitious effort for a harmonized coexistence of first-class wellness hotel hospitality with totally up-to-date, moderately sized multi-faceted cultural productions and guest performances without harassing the nearby idyllic B\u00e1nk lake, blessed with peaceful stillness and a still thriving nature. But let us take the story from its pleasantly improbable beginning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It was in the frame of the latest Kosovo-Albania Theatre Showcase we had the opportunity of contact with two special cultural ambassadors of Hungarian contemporary theatre and performing arts, internationally acclaimed director <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Zolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and his all-round Egeria of a \u00abproducer\u00bb, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Sylvia <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Husz\u00e1r<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote2sym\" name=\"sdfootnote2anc\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. Little we knew then of an emerging new institution, financially independent of state and due to the artistic sensibility of the art loving family of Messrs. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Ferenc Karacs<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Julianna Karacs-Zagyva <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">and their young and handsome offsprings<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, beautifully situated at the lake village of B\u00e1nk, barely an hour by car from Budapest. Still less we knew then about the intention for this cultural frame to form a holistic combination of still-to-be-programmed cultural activities, hosted in a nearby new and fully ecologically sustainable complex of non-monumental and internally flexible buildings, sitting lightly on the lake vicinity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The friendly atmosphere of our reception, as members of a multinational 10-member \u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Foreign Theatre Delegation<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00bb, invited to participate to the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Opening Ceremony of the Mettrin Arts Centre<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, could not conceal the seriousness of purpose around the new project. The importance of the occasion became even more obvious during its preceding press conference, featuring first and foremost a presentation of the new premises and their architectural and ecological philosophy by the well-known Hungarian architect <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>\u00c1rp\u00e1d Ferdin\u00e1nd<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> of \u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Ferdinand &amp; Ferdinand Architects<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00bb Firm, followed to the fore by an enthusiastic <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Bal\u00e1zs,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> who also presented his vision in front of a select public headed by the initiator and his family and featuring much of Budapest\u2019s artistic cream in selections from poetry, instrumental and vocal music, as well as nostalgic yet imaginative dance numbers, French chanson evergreens and much more. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark1\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The special evening was introduced by the well-known Kossuth-Prize Winner actress <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Ildik\u00f3<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>B\u00e1ns\u00e1gi<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, who introduced the Ceremony with the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>World Theatre Day<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> message of Greek director <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Theodoros Terzopoulos<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. After a greeting by the new Director General of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>International Theatre Institute\/UNESCO<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Ms. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Zhongwen CHEN<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, the evening came to its artistic highpoint with a series of multinational songs, introduced by the Greek one \u00abMavra mou Matia\u00bb, movingly interpreted by Transylvania-born <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Kinga <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>\u00dajhelyi<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>,<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> tastefully yet intensely accompanied by Armenian <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>David Yengibarian<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, a musician well acquainted with Greek Rebetiko and more traditions, as it became obvious during personal contact after the Event.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Singer, film and musical actress <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Eszter <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>B\u00edr\u00f3<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and her multitalented accompanist <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>S\u00e1ndor F\u00f6d\u0151<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> offered sensational Friday evening Sabbath prayer \u00abin a thread of song\u00bb, followed by violinist <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>J\u00falia<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Rabovay<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and cellist <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>\u00c1gnes K\u00e1llay<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> in the second movement (<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Tr\u00e8s vif<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">) of Maurice Ravel\u2019s only sonata for this combination, first performed in 1922 and dedicated to Claude Debussy, a really awkward choice for such a mysticist programmatic frame. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Anna<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Gy\u00f6rgi<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u2019s recitation of an excerpt from \u00abSong of Myself\u00bb by Walt Whitman was followed by a rock music sample, \u00abSong of Martti\u00bb, composed by punk rock singer <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>S\u00e1muel<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>P\u00e1sztor<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, who also accompanied vocally and from the electric guitar his singer sister <strong>Anna P\u00e1sztor<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. Edith Piaf in Hungarian was offered by such all-round artistic personalities as actress and singer singer <strong>Ildik\u00f3 Keresztes <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0accompanied on the piano by composer and pianist <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>P\u00e9ter<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Fur\u00e1k<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. Following them, the stage was occupied by the accurately described as \u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>superb musician \u2026 in many ways unique and working solo or with supreme beatboxer Jammal<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00bb <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Edina Szirtes<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>M\u00f3kus<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> for an instrumental and vocal demonstration without parallel in our humble experience. An evocative tango imbued with shrewd choreographic elements was offered with classy lightness of movement by the pair <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Andr\u00e1s<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Sz\u0151ll\u0151sy<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Zs\u00f3fia Kiss Gy<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, before singer, painter and actor <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>\u00a0G\u00e1bor G\u00e1briel<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Farkas<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, son of illustrious Hungarian parents, occupied the stage with his post-Sinatra outgoing personality in his idol\u2019s famous \u00abLady is a trump\u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4529 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-at-the-introductory-press-conference-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4536'>\n\t\t\t\tZolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs at the introductory press conference &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kinga-Ujhelyi-David-Yengibarian-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4530'>\n\t\t\t\tKinga \u00dajhelyi, David Yengibarian &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Petra-Gubik-in-Piaf-repertoire-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4534'>\n\t\t\t\tIldik\u00f3 Keresztes in Piaf repertoire &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ildiko-Bansagi-for-World-Theatre-Day-with-a-message-of-Greek-director-Theodoros-Terzopoulos-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4550'>\n\t\t\t\tIldik\u00f3 B\u00e1ns\u00e1gi for World Theatre Day with a message of Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos-photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Gabor-Gabriel-Farkas-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4544'>\n\t\t\t\tG\u00e1bor G\u00e1briel Farkas &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Edina-Szirtes-Mokus-in-an-instrumental-and-vocal-demonstration-without-parallel-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4542'>\n\t\t\t\tEdina Szirtes M\u00f3kus in an instrumental and vocal demonstration without parallel &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-224x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1146x1536.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x933.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1068x1432.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-313x420.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anna-Gyorgi-recites-from-Song-of-Myself-by-Walt-Whitman-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4540'>\n\t\t\t\tAnna Gy\u00f6rgi recites from \u00abSong of Myself\u00bb by Walt Whitman &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Andras-Szollosy-and-Zsofia-Kiss-Gy-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4538'>\n\t\t\t\tAndr\u00e1s Sz\u0151ll\u0151sy and Zs\u00f3fia Kiss Gy &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mettrin-initiator-Karacs-family-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4532'>\n\t\t\t\tMettrin initiator Karacs family &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joan-Faulkner-soulfully-accompanied-at-the-piano-jazz-pianist-Gusztav-Csik-performing-in-front-of-Mettrin-initiator-Ferenc-Karacs-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4556'>\n\t\t\t\tJoan Faulkner, soulfully accompanied at the piano jazz pianist Guszt\u00e1v Csik performing in front of Mettrin initiator Ferenc Karacs &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Greeting-by-Director-General-of-the-International-Theatre-Institute-UNESCO-Ms.-Zhongwen-CHEN-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4546'>\n\t\t\t\tGreeting by Director General of the International Theatre Institute-UNESCO Ms. Zhongwen CHEN &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936-.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--224x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--1146x1536.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--696x933.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--1068x1432.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936--313x420.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9936-.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9657.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Bringing back to memory a long standing and fairly established local \u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Louis Armstrong Jazz Festival<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00bb, in view of its imminent reinstatement, the evening culminated with the song \u00abThe time for your life is now\u00bb by the American songwriter John Mellencamp, composed in the shocking aftermath of September 11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">th<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> USA terror act and defiantly sung by his fellow American jazz singer <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Joan Faulkner<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, soulfully accompanied at the piano by her long standing companion, the internationally acclaimed jazz pianist <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Guszt\u00e1v<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b> Csik<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. A performance that brought the evening to a vociferous public acclaim and led to the concluding Fireworks over the lake, that all participants witnessed from the terrace with Farkas sharing one last time his extrovert artistry with the intoxicated participants\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Zolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>and his Puppetmaster at Debrecen \u2026<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark2\"><\/a><a name=\"_Hlk195443147\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Focal person of our 3-day sojourn at the picturesque outskirts of Budapest indisputably was the appointed artistic director of the Mettrin Cultural Centre. According to the 2025 update of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>szinhaz.online<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Zolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs is a multi-faceted artist, being an actor, director, set designer, and theater director. In 2001, he founded the avant-garde <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Maladype Theatre<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote3sym\" name=\"sdfootnote3anc\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, an ensemble that quickly gained international acclaim and recognition, where he continues to serve as artistic director. Over the past two decades, this groundbreaking company has become one of Budapest\u2019s most prestigious theatrical and cultural institutions, regularly appearing at international festivals across Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. As a sought-after director worldwide, he has staged productions in the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Kosovo, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Romania\u2019s dynamic theater scene. His work as both an actor and director has been acknowledged via numerous professional and state awards, including the Comet Award, the Critics\u2019 Award, the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, the G\u00e1bor Mikl\u00f3s Award, the Lajos \u0150ze Award, the Mari J\u00e1szai Award, the K\u00e1lm\u00e1n N\u00e1dasdy Award, the S\u00e1ndor Hevesi Award, the Hanna Honthy Award, and the Golden Mask Award.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark3\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As we were briefly to ascertain through our own experience, Bal\u00e1zs\u2019 theatrical approach is deeply conceptual and method-driven, spanning various genres and styles. He has successfully directed classical and contemporary works, adapted novels and epics, staged dramas, comedies, operas, operettas, musicals, dance performances, puppet shows, performances, non-verbal and movement-based theater, and even rock concerts. His productions, inspired by diverse cultures and theatrical traditions, consistently receive critical and audience acclaim both in Hungary and abroad. His artistic work is characterized by intellectual freedom, experimentation, and a pioneering spirit. Committed to nurturing the next generation of theater professionals, Bal\u00e1zs developed the &#8220;Gold-Bug Method&#8221; in 2013 -an actor-training and creative-communication analytical program. In 2023, he introduced the &#8220;Five Gates&#8221; theater methodology, a comprehensive system integrating his extensive creative experience into a new, era-specific approach to theater education.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark4\"><\/a><a name=\"Bookmark5\"><\/a><a name=\"Bookmark6\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In pursue of such a demanding scope of artistic intentions, it required a more than 4-hour journey to the old university city of Debrecen, not far away from the Ukrainian border, in order to witness <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>The Puppetmaster<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, an impressive performance, directed by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Bal\u00e1zs, who was also responsible for the abstractly evocative sets as well as for the so called <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">motion sculpture<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, with Sylvia Huszar as its creative producer. The theatrical atmosphere was further enhanced by the evocative costumes of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Anik\u00f3 N\u00e9meth<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and original music by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Adri\u00e1n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Kov\u00e1cs<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> interspersed with evergreen romantic hits, relevant to the remote decades of the plot. A <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Gesamtkunstwerk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00bb <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">perception that thankfully ignored Wagnerian proportions but <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">was meant to consolidate our opinion of witnessing the theatrical highlight of our brief Hungarian cultural quest. The co-production, skillfully managed by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Katalin <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Bal\u00e1zs<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, involved<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Csokonai National Theatre Debrecen<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Maladype Theatre Budapest<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities in Honor of the 80th Anniversary of the Holocaust<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-4529 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4568'>\n\t\t\t\tPuppetmaster in Debrecen &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Puppetmaster-discussing-with-the-artists-after-the-performance-photo-by-Sylvia-Huszar.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4566'>\n\t\t\t\tPuppetmaster &#8211; discussing with the artists after the performance &#8211; photo by Sylvia Huszar\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-Huszar-with-the-Czech-colleague-at-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4570'>\n\t\t\t\tSylvia Huszar with the Czech colleague at Debrecen &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-224x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1146x1536.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x933.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1068x1432.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-313x420.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zoltan-Balazs-the-Mettrin-artistic-director-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4560'>\n\t\t\t\tZolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs the Mettrin artistic director &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Csokonai-National-Theatre-Debrecen-a-modern-building-with-an-inner-space-with-a-galactic-kind-of-aura-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4562'>\n\t\t\t\tCsokonai National Theatre Debrecen, a modern building with an inner space with a galactic kind of aura-photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/International-Committee-in-Debrecen-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4564'>\n\t\t\t\tInternational Committee in Debrecen &#8211; photo by Kyriakos Loukakos\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark7\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Very near to the historical centre of this second largest city of the country, a city full of architectural references to its Reformation and \u00abK. und k. Monarchie\u00bb past, <\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Csokonai National Theatre Debrecen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">is<\/span><\/span><\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">a modern building of unexpected originality, particularly regarding its inner space with a galactic kind of aura through the futuristic lighting of its main hall leading to the medium-sized stage that hosted the performance. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Gilles S\u00e9gal<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u2019 s <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">absurd play<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, originally titled <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Puppetmaster of Lodz<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, depicts, as described by the Theatre\u2019s own notes, the imaginary character of Samuel Finkelbaum, a world-famous puppeteer and a Birkenau survivor living in the divided city of Berlin five years after World War II. Despite numerous efforts to convince him otherwise, he doesn\u2019t believe that the war is over and he no longer needs to hide. Thus, he spends his days locked away in a room with the puppets of his wife, who perished in the concentration camp, and his child who was never born as he prepares for the grand performance of his life, entitled The Tragicomic Life of Samuel Finkelbaum. The puppeteer\u2019s alternate reality is framed by a classic \u201ctheater within the theater\u201d setup, and the arrival of a friend who might finally convince Finkelbaum that the war is indeed over<\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote4sym\" name=\"sdfootnote4anc\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark8\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Born in F\u0103lticeni, Romania, S\u00e9gal (13 January 1929 \u2013 11 June 2014) shared common traits with his antihero. As a French actor, mime and playwright, he performed on stage with\u00a0world famous mime <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcel_Marceau\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Marcel Marceau<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and acted in more than sixty films since 1954, among them, most notably, in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_Dassin\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Jules Dassin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8216;s\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topkapi_(film)\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Topkapi<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> featuring among many illustrious others, director\u2019s wife, emblematic Greek actress Melina Merkouri. Although <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">S\u00e9gal<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> intended, in his own words, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>to write something light<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00bb, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">he rather created <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>a descent into the heart of darkness<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote5sym\" name=\"sdfootnote5anc\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> with an ambivalent and largely open conclusion, perpetuated in the production we attended.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"Bookmark9\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Being granted, as members of the International Committee, the inestimable privilege of a collective face to face contact with the interpreters of the performance after its conclusion, we came to realize the thoroughly dialectic, intellectual <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">midwife<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00bb (\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9\u03b5\u03c5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">in all-time Greek<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">) <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">method <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Bal\u00e1zs<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> used, in order to extract from his team (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><b>Gergely M\u00e1t\u00e9 Kiss<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> in the title role, contemporary dancer <\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><b>Rut Nache L\u00f3pez<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, as well as <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Kinga <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><b>\u00dajhelyi<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and <\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><b>J\u00e1nos<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Mercs<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">,<\/span><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">the latter in multiple assignments) the truth in the way of seeking a firm dramaturgic purpose. In this respect and by denying to cede to a predictable holocaust solemnity, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Bal\u00e1zs<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> enriched the rattling intensity of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>parola scenica<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and its mostly forceful but also -at times- frightfully intimate, barely audible, declamation with further layers of scenic action. So, intermittently to scenes and \/ or third-party appearances by characters who tried to pull the protagonist out of his illusion, the play was enhanced by evergreen and mostly sentimental musical numbers from the dark decades between 1920s and 1950s, contradicting and yet relieving the relentless plot, first and foremost, because of the high-quality singing by our already familiar <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\">\u00dajhelyi<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The action took place in the frame of an abstract, light to handle scenery, lighted discreetly with moody use of alternating colours, and served by costumes conform to periods and situations in an aesthetically rewarding synthesis. This was a performance where proportions, analogies, sound and visual elements, including dynamics, presented a painstakingly accurate result of almost cinematic exactitude, without betraying in the least the theatrical directness of a spectacle that further incorporated in a most esoteric way the body theatre of an expressive human puppet choreography and its dialogue with the Puppetmaster as well as with other characters and, sometimes, even brief yet aptly contributing sounds. And if our remarks should misguide to an assumption of soulless technicalities, we have to be adamant in the conclusion that we shared a deeply moving theatrical and aesthetic experience haunting us long after Morpheus demanded his own rights for the tiresome way back! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Crowning Penelopeiad at the Mettrin<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In the aftermath of the previous evening\u2019s experience, we were not in for a surprise that Balasz\u2019s choice for the inauguration theatrical spectacle in the Mettrin Cultural Centre would involve the tricky production of a virtual monologue for Ulisses\u2019s wife Penelope as conceived and narrated by the distinguished Canadian author Margaret Atwood in her 2005 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Penelopiad<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4572\" style=\"width: 2016px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Penelopeiad-Mettrin-29.03.2025-1-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penelopeiad &#8211; Mettrin 29.03.2025 (1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It i<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">s \u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>a retelling of the life of Penelope, and the fate of the 12 maids from <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellread.com\/blog-avenue\/review-the-odyssey\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Odyssey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i> told primarily from the perspective of Penelope, dead in the underworld, retelling her life on earth with <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>interjecting<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i> sections from the point of view of the maids\u2026 commentating on their lives, Penelope and their hanging<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote6sym\" name=\"sdfootnote6anc\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The play is fairly hard to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">revive since it contains the use <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">of different forms including poetry, a trial, a play and a love song<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, elements that brought once more to the attention the virtuosic element of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Bal\u00e1zs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> \u2018s production and direction values, firmly supported by his own sparse yet imaginative and functional scenery on a stage of very limited proportions as well as the subtly ancientized costumes by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Anik\u00f3 N\u00e9meth<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and originally composed music by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Adri\u00e1n<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Kov\u00e1cs<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Three highly intelligent artists of various talents (<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Gabriella Varga<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> as Penelope, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Nelli <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Orb\u00e1n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> as Helene and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Edina <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Bajk\u00f3<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> representing the Handmaids<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">) excelled in refined utterance of the most complex and delicate declamation prosody, alternating it with solo and collective singing as well as instrumental self-accompaniment on a number of instruments including really exotic ones. An all-inclusive performing arts experience then, which we retain fondly and gratefully in our memory and soul, even far away from Hungary! Thank You All!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote1\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote1anc\" name=\"sdfootnote1sym\">1<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <span lang=\"en-GB\">Honoured in December 2024 by the Greek public cultural Radio 3 as one of its few <\/span>\u00ab<span lang=\"en-US\">beloved voices<\/span>\u00bb<span lang=\"en-US\">,<\/span> <span lang=\"en-GB\">Music and Lyric Theatre critic <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Kyriakos Loukakos <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">is a leading vocal connoisseur in Greece. He is an attorney at law and a Dr. Juris of the Cologne University as well as one of the first Greek mediators accredited by the Hellenic Ministry of Justice. In 1991 he joined the Greek Ministry of Home Affairs as a member of its Strategic Policy Unit and, as of 1998, he is a senior investigator at the Quality<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">-of-Life<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> Department of the Greek Ombudsman\u2019s Office. But music has been his lifelong passion, leading to the formation of his own extensive archive of records and privately recorded performances on several kinds of sound carriers. Therefore, from 1994 to 2010 he has commented and presented almost every opera feature for Greek Radio 3, including innumerable EBU direct relays and deferred transmissions, as well as contributing an extensive series of vocal <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">artists\u2019 and conductors\u2019 portrayals. In 1997, commemorating the 20<\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-US\">th<\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-US\"> anniversary of her passing, he presented a 28- hour step-by-step biographical radio homage to Maria Callas and the total output of her recorded roles, for the first time as a whole in radio chronicles. He also reported for the ERT WORLD TV cultural program \u201c9+1 Muses\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Since 1997 he is the music critic of the Sunday edition of the Athens daily journal \u201cI AVGI\u201d. He has provided texts for practically every major musical institution of his country (Athens Megaron Concert Hall, Athens Festival, Thessalonica Megaron Concert Hall, Greek Parliament Foundation, Athenaeum International Cultural Center, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">European Cultural Centre<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Delphi,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">etc.) as well as serious cultural magazines (Peritechno, Odos Panos, To dendro, Classical Music, as well as and for the bimonthly periodical ILIAIA). He further supervised a CD-set edition of 7 complete operas in rare archival recordings featuring distinguished soprano Vasso Papantoniou. In 2011 he managed extensive bilingual texts and overall supervision to a lavish 4-cd set, issued by \u201cThe Friends of Music Society\u201d of the Athens Megaron Concert Hall and devoted to hitherto unpublished recordings from the archive of the late (mezzo) soprano Arda Mandikian, a close collaborator of Benjamin Britten and Sir Peter Pears and the Dido in both the first ever complete performance of Berlioz\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Les Troyens<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, in Oxford (1950), and the subsequent first complete recording of its second part, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Les Troyens a Carthage<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, under the baton of Hermann Scherchen. The set was favorably reviewed by such prestigious international periodicals as International Record Review, Opera magazine, The Record Collector and Classical Recordings Quarterly and was accorded the 2012 \u201cGina Bachauer International Foundation\u201d Record Prize. Since 2011 Dr. Loukakos has further reported regularly, in Greek and in English, for the e-magazine for drama, dance and music critique <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.critics-point.gr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">www.critics-point.gr<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, an activity he now refreshes alongside prestigious colleagues through his new e-magazine address <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><u>www.criticscorner.gr<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> . <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As of January 2018, he is Honorary President of the Greek Drama and Music Critics Association, a Union established in 1928 and a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics(IATC), operating under the auspices of UNESCO, whose Executive Committee he duly presided for 4 consecutive terms (2005 &#8211; 2018). Since 2013 he is Secretary General of the \u201cMaria Callas Scholarships Society\u201d, member of the Executive Committee of the \u00abFriends of the City of Athens Museum Society\u00bb and, as of 2015, Member of the \u201cCitizens Movement for an Open Society\u201d and of the \u00abAthens Conservatory 1871 Society\u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote2\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote2anc\" name=\"sdfootnote2sym\">2<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sylvia HUSZ\u00c1R is Hungarian independent theatre expert with strong international background, theatre theoretician and translator. She has been dealing with contemporary theatres for more than 20 years. She is promoting Hungarian contemporary theatres with strong new visions and new theatre aesthetics. Besides the project-management and publishing activities, she focuses on professional and consulting cooperation of theatre festivals at home and abroad. She was curator and lead coordinator of the Hungarian exhibitions at the Prague Quadrennial Word Exhibition of Performance Design and Space (1995-2015). She also worked (2007-2011) at the University of Film and Theatre Arts in Budapest as head of PR and foreign affairs department. Between 2009-2013 she worked for Maladype Theatre in the capacity of manager of foreign affairs and producer of co-production projects. From 2018 she continues collaboration with the company and with Zolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs as his creative producer<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> (s. <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maladype.hu\/en\/maladype-en\/company\/item\/2293-sylvia-huszar.html\"><span lang=\"en-US\">https:\/\/www.maladype.hu\/en\/maladype-en\/company\/item\/2293-sylvia-huszar.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> ).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote3\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote3anc\" name=\"sdfootnote3sym\">3<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">See<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maladype.hu\/en\/maladype-en\/maladype-theatre.html\">https:\/\/maladype.hu\/en\/maladype-en\/maladype-theatre.html<\/a> ; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Maladype Theatre &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">founded in 2001<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0&#8211; is an <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">independent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> theatre company based in Budapest, Hungary. Maladype Theatre does not receive regular governmental funds, it maintains itself exclusively from grant programs.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Maladype\u2019s autonomy is not only financial, it is the foundation of its\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">creative independence<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. It allows the company an artistic freedom that resonates throughout their work.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The company, comprising of a team of resident artists, theatre practitioners and creatives is constantly reinventing itself. It relentlessly seeks extraordinary situations, generating new perceptions and embracing natural elements as an organic component of theatre making. Maladype has also developed a\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">unique language and methodology<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0that is not only understood by its artists but also by its ever growing audience.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Playfulness, acting and reacting is the essential part of Maladype Theatre. Its theatrical method is structured around two main principles. The first principle is the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">continuous development and conditioning<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0(both physically and mentally) of its actors. Secondly, their approach focuses on an intensive and continuous relationship between the artist and audience allowing open communication by facilitating public rehearsals.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The distinctive characteristic of each, individual piece is its capability to adapt according to the physical, cultural and emotional context depending on the location and setting of any given performance. This makes the shows accessible to all.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Maladype has received numerous awards, has toured both nationally and internationally (including countries like India, Iran and the US), and is led by Artistic Director and Director Zolt\u00e1n Bal\u00e1zs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote4\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote4anc\" name=\"sdfootnote4sym\">4<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <span lang=\"en-US\">So <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Csokonai National Theatre Debrecen e-pamphlet.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote5\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote5anc\" name=\"sdfootnote5sym\">5<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <span lang=\"en-US\">So, Nancy Chernin, The Times, review, February 17, 1992 of a San Diego performance<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote6\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote6anc\" name=\"sdfootnote6sym\">6<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <span lang=\"en-US\">So, in https:\/\/www.kellread.com\/blog-avenue\/review-the-penelopiad-by-margaret-atwood<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mettrin &#8211; A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts by Dr. Kyriakos Loukakos1, Hon. President of the Greek Drama and Music Critics\u2019 Union (est. 1928) Mettrin as a holistic architectural and cultural concept Mettrin does not mean anything specific! It just may be some cryptic combination of letters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mettrin - A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mettrin - A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/en\/mettrin-a-hungarian-cultural-institution-devoted-to-openness-diversity-and-sustainability-in-performing-arts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mettrin - A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mettrin - A Hungarian cultural institution devoted to openness, diversity and sustainability in performing arts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/en\/mettrin-a-hungarian-cultural-institution-devoted-to-openness-diversity-and-sustainability-in-performing-arts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ciriticscorner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-21T23:10:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-04T00:10:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.criticscorner.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Idyllic-frame-for-Mettrin-photo-by-Kyriakos-Loukakos-.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2016\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1504\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kyriakos Loukakos\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kyriakos Loukakos\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"19 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.criticscorner.gr\\\/en\\\/mettrin-a-hungarian-cultural-institution-devoted-to-openness-diversity-and-sustainability-in-performing-arts\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.criticscorner.gr\\\/en\\\/mettrin-a-hungarian-cultural-institution-devoted-to-openness-diversity-and-sustainability-in-performing-arts\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kyriakos Loukakos\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.criticscorner.gr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c64f51a865dde6437414b7d707c47d05\"},\"headline\":\"Mettrin &#8211; 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