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ANDRÄS URBÄN

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was born in 1970, Senta (Serbia). When he was seventeen, he started his own literary and theatrical creative workshop, in which he was present as author, director and actor. With his friends, he created the famous AIOWA group, which viewed the theatre as complex, specific and ideological action, and he also became a member of the Summer Movie Theatrical Association. He graduated as a director from the class of Vlatko Gilić and Boro Draskovic. He founded the Urban Andrés Company as a non-formal group, and began directing in the Kosztolényi Dezsó Theater, but he also worked with other theatres. Currently, he is head of the Kosztolényi Dezsó Theater, and the founding director of the international theatre festival: Désiré Central Station. His productions have been awarded numerous important prizes in Serbia, Hungary and internationally.

Director:

Andrés Urbén

Directors collaborators:

Jelena Bogavac,

Ferenc Péter, Zoltén Puskés

Music:

Attila Antal

Stenography:

Dogs & drugs

Costumography:

Dramaturg:

Kornélia Góli

Stage fighting;

Nina Matthi

dr. Zoltan Sagi

Professional Konsultant

Actors:

Marti, Marta, Sister Marta - Métta

BITEF TEATRE

Béres: Arpad, Mesi - Ärpad Mészéros: Gabor: Gabor Mészéros; Kinga, teacher Kinga - Kinga Mezei; Imre, Miki - Imre Elek Mikes; Zoli - Zoltan Pleti, m.v.

Donators:

Bethlen Gabor Fund , Nation;

Cultural Fund (NKA, Hungary) Town

is a theatre director, dramaturge, writer and a performer. She was born in Belgrade 1973. After studies at Faculty of Political Sciences, she studied Theatre and Radio Directing at Faculty of Drama Arts. Upon graduation, she was employed with Bitef Theatre in the capacity of a dramaturge. While working on the trilogy COUNTERsthke 199 9, she gathered a circle of like minds and founded Drama Mental Studio - DMS, as a creative ■’ grounding in which she realizes her works. Her ovel, Batman above Zvezdam (1996) was repr nted four times. She has published two poetry collections, and directed about forty performances, some of which have been awarded at international festivals.

ZOLTÄN PUSKÄS

is an actor and a director. He was born in 1976 in Senta. Since 2000, he has been a member of Theatre in Novi Sad. As a director, he has worked in Theatre in Novi Sad, Theatre in Subotica, Children's Theatre in Subotica, Hungarian Chamber Theatre in Senta, National Hungarian Theatre "Csiky Gergely" in Timisoara. He has been awarded for his work as an actor and as a director, in 2004, at the Festival of Hungarian Theatres in Kisvérda, he receives the best actor award, for the role of Deda in the performance Via Italia, directed by Kinga Mezei. In 2010, at “Joakim Interfest", he was awarded as a director while his performance Midsummer Night's Dream won the best performance award.

FERENC PÉTER

is an actor and a director. He was born in 1971 in Senta. His first theatre experience is theatre troupe AIOWA from Senta. This team achieved significant success at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, after which it turned into a movement, the first alternative theatre troupe in Vojvodina, which toured with its performances throughout Yugoslavia. In 1991, he became a member of KPGT theatre. As an actor, he cooperated with directors: Pašović, Urban, Milenkovič, Babarczi, Ristič. In 1998, he became a member of the National Theatre in Subotica. In 1992, he received the best actor Bitef award for the role of Hamlet, and as a director he was awarded at FIAT Festival for the performance King John.

ANDRÂS URBÄN AT BITEF k' >

This time Andrés Urban cooperated with three directors: Jelena Bogavac, Ferenz Peter and Zoltan Puskas. Each of them was charged, drawing on the documentary material and work with actors, to give shape to a stage text for one of the three parts of the production: violence, drugs, sex. Urban knit all these stories in a frenzied whole threatening to crash down on the spectators like the most horrendous image possible of the modern society: non-scientifically speaking, primarily addressing its basic units / the family and (the sons of) the street.

The authors and actors from Subotica and Belgrade, rallied around the documented reality in which every woman is beaten at least once, every child tries drugs at least once, and every sexual pervert gets his desserts - a blind condemnation of the selfsame society which made him a sinner.

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The seriousness of the predominantly socially committed, inflammatory subject is softened by comic elements. It is a portal to that curious state which makes every thing multidimensional. Paradoxically, when people committing evil are shown as funny, we approve their actions, seeking, in fact, how to overcome it. The production Dogs & Drugs, however, does not help there.

Igor Burle

(Dnevnik)