Northern Theatre Harag György Company

This year's Deszka Festival will take place from 9 to 18 May and will feature thirty-one performances in eight venues, as well as music, film screenings and talks. Hungarian companies from cross-border theatres have been invited to the event, including the Satu Mare Theatre, the Cluj-Napoca Theatre, the Sfântu Gheorghe Theatre and the Subotica Theatre.

The premiere of the play by Varga Lóránt, a contemporary Hungarian playwright, was also a premiere, as the director Lendvai Zoltán's work was the first time that the extremely exciting play, which deals with the problems of our time, was staged in Satu Mare.

”What happens when five teachers start talking to each other? As a matter of course, they talk about children, about being a teacher, about teaching, as if there had never been any other topic in the universe. The same is not true of the five teachers who accompany the school choir on a trip abroad. The children are already in their rooms, the teachers gather for a friendly chat - nothing formal, just us adults among friends.

But what happens when one of the teachers has a specific plan for the evening? Will he achieve his goal, and if he does, will everyone be happy? As time goes by and the mood becomes lighter, opinions about education, about rigour, about whether leniency helps the students and thus the next generation, or whether rigour, discipline and even violence are needed. And, of course, where is the line to be drawn, the line behind which we must no longer step?

Time passes, opinions and passions become more open, and the issue is no longer about a primary school, but about the governance of a much larger institution, which is ultimately a matter for everyone to decide, teachers and viewers alike.” – reads the synopsis of the presentation.
Cast: Nagy Csongor Zsolt, Bogár Barbara, Rappert-Vencz Stella, Varga Sándor and Méhes Kati. Set design: Fornvald Gréti, costume: Szabó Anna, stage director and prompter: Varga Katalin.