Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest, 27 November – 2 December 2013

Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest (27 November – 2 December 2013) is here with the most innovative and most exciting new Hungarian theatre performances, which are all subtitled in English! This year, the focus is on the young theatre generation; you can see performances about Hungary’s informer past (Meltdown, Secrets of Ours) corruption (Corruption, A Profitable Position) and even some theatre “delights”. The international Contemporary Drama Festival is the one and only event in Hungary that exclusively deals with the introduction of new Hungarian and foreign dramatic works.

The festival was first organised in 1997. After the extremely big interest of foreign countries and the success in Hungary as well, the organizers decided that the following festivals should be organised in every two years. At the second event, besides the Hungarian performances, the audience could watch guest performances from foreign countries as well, and the program was completed with a wide range of international supporting programs. The third festival in 2001 also had a Devised Theatre Workshop as a complementary programme, aiming to let young theatre experts of the Middle-East-European region to get acquainted with a certain way of creating a performance. In addition, an international book fair of theatrical books and publications was organised. Also in 2001, a Drama Translating Seminar was organized in order to stimulate translation of Hungarian dramatic texts to other languages.