Northern Theatre Harag György Company

For years, the „No Barriers” International Multicultural Festival succeeds to draw attentionand to reunite people into the theatre room – Romanians and Hungarians – from inside and outside the borders, intellectuals, tourists, as well as mere citizens. Which could be the most important side of this common theatre celebration? Is it its international dimension? Is it intercultural communication? Is it the theatre in itself, as universal art of its own language? No doubtit is all these put together.

We very often find ourselves speaking of our past, our communities are built on rememberence grounds. All our museums, heritage, buikdings, historians, legends and chronicles tell histories of our past. Pessimistic economists, optimistic politicians, fortune tellers and passionate prophets are talking about the future, promising us positive changes. Living both lost lost in the past and caught in the net of a predicted, promised and forecast future at the same time, hopefully or hopelessly digging our futur, we are prone to forget the most valuable moment of our existance: the present.

Theatre is rightfully said to be the art of the moment.The show you're watching today cannot be seen tomorrow or next year. What you see then, is not going to be the same.

Just like we cannot walk twice into the same river, we cannot see two identical performances of the same show. Theatre processes the present, the living moment that either we are able to catch, or loose forever. Viewing that, the past cannot be but a background and the future un uncertainly ending continuation. But all these are decided here and now. Theatre does not feed itself from the past, it creates memories. Theatre makes no promises, it offers.

The experiences that such a festival may offer must be primarily lived and not commented. It provides for a series of meetings, impressions and opinions, all preserved in unique moments. Dear audience, you should not miss this momentous opportunity.