Filcember - Experimental all-arts improvisation performance

3 Dec 2022 | Here and Now Company News and Blog, They wrote this about us

Written by: Gabor Szőke

The meeting of visual note-taking, music and improvisational theater in a new performance. Writing the Two Lanterns blog.

The genre of visual note-taking has taken root in the world of business conferences and presentations in recent years. The Society attempts to combine the activity, which is slowly becoming an independent art form, with improvisational theatre. Criticism by Filcember from the pen of the Két Lámpás theater criticism blog.

Quote from the article:

"I'm sure you know the What if…? game, well a felt man, if it were a drink, it would be fragrant hot tea, if it were a month, then a snowy, magical December, if it were an animal, then a chameleon, if it were a child's toy, then a kaleidoscope, if a work of art, then a mandala with the miracle of birth, the singularity of existence and the sadness of passing away. The Itt és Most Társulat's all-arts improvisational theater performance creates an unrepeatable theater event night after night from the cooperation and mutual influence of three art forms, visual note-taking, live music and acting, which can be a lasting experience for everyone who is not deterred by the unfriendly it's winter time, and he goes to the company's community space on Ráday Street. "

Quote from the article:

"The game starts with words invented by the audience, from which Strenner Solid choose three to be the theme of the scenes. On the night of the presentation, the words balloon, blind luck and wanderer inspired the improvisation. In the first round, theater improvisation started the collective thinking, followed by the successive scenes Hoppál Basspoetry Mihály music, and only at the end of the block could we see Szilárd Strenner's drawings depicting each etude. The balloon associated the actors in many different ways, from misbehaving with a completely concrete helium balloon to proposing to a girl on an airship to a completely abstract family discussion about raising a child in a bubble. For us, the most touching scene was the scene of the two aging, back-ache, hectic clowns (László Gregus, Gábor Szőke), popping the balloon dog will stay with us for a long time. The scenes always start from moving elements, textual improvisations are built on them, the individual etudes flow into each other almost fluidly, the next movement phase already appears at the end of one, so that the individual blocks form a unified block of mood without interruption. Szilárd Strenner's drawings begin to unfold the word blind luck on the screen, the music responds to this, and this guides the actors' performance as well. "

Photo: Attila Bán-Horváth

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