English theatre in Budapest celebrates 4th anniversary! – PHOTOS
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Asterion Project is a multicultural, professional Theatre troupe, based in Budapest, that is producing Theatre plays in English. In the last four years they worked with artists from over 20 different countries, offering regularly contemporary theatre performances to foreigners in Budapest, touring through different cities in Europe. Today we talked to the founder of Asterion Project, Croatian actress and sociologist, Čarna Kršul.
Where are you from? What brought you here?
I`m from Croatia, I grew up in a small village on the sea side called Selce. During my university studies in Zagreb, I fell in love with a Hungarian and came with him to live in Budapest.
You studied acting but you also have a degree in Sociology, how are those two different areas connected?
Since being a little child, I was always fascinated by Theatre. With my school we would often visit the closest big city, Rijeka`s Theatre, I would sit in the audience, thinking, I want to be up there on the stage. In my family art was always important, my father is a writer, and my mother paints. The interest for sociology came in high school. I think theatre and sociology are very much connected, and not just because of Ervin Goffman`s theory of social interaction where he explains face to face interaction through imagery of Theatre. Sociology researches human behavior.
When The Chicago School in the 1920s made their researches in the field: they were researching (members of) subcultures by “getting in their shoes” or physically living with them in order to see things from their perspective, from inside, so their conclusions would not only be based on the view from outside. And that`s the same thing that an actor does, “getting in the shoes” of a character. The actor also needs to be good observer, curious, have analytical mind.
How it all started? Why you decided to establish Theatre in English?
Budapest is an international city and there is a lack of offer for foreigners when it comes to Theatre plays in English. There are only sometimes impro performances or Hungarian performances with subtitles.
Asterion Project is having the 4th anniversary, will there be a celebration?
Yes, on 27th of January we will celebrate our 4 year anniversary. Original plan was to have a celebration with all the artists and audience as well, after performing a new premiere, but because of the pandemic situation, the celebration is postponed for June.