Radnóti Miklós Színház is one of the most prestigious theatres in Hungary.  Its repertoire and its theatre education activities through its sociodramatic approach reflect a sensitivity to social issues in Hungary. With its 2022-2024 campaign, which won the European Diversity Award, it drew attention to 14+2 important public issues. 
The Last Class Trip: After the closed performance of “Istentelen ifjúság” in April, more than 150 students serenaded the dismissed or resigned teachers who could no longer be with them in their final school year. 

What is the Radnóti Youth (Work)shop?

For nearly 10 years, the workshop has been offering programs for high school students and adults. Participants learn about various situations, themselves, and each other through community art, debates, and drama games, while experiencing how expressing their opinions can shape the world around them.

Since 2020 Radnóti Színház also offers participatory theatre. These performances owe their creation not to professional actors, but to the creative and playful spirit of ordinary, civilian people, their commitment to specific themes, and their desire to belong to a community. The previous shows elaborated on the following themes: How can we handle the burden of social expectations? How can we use theatre as a collective social memory in public spaces? How can we, disabled and non disabled adults promote the vision of future integration?

The participatory theatre programmes of the 2023/24 season focus on the theme of generation gaps. High school students engage with adults aged over 60 in the creative process. The two generations set off separately by getting to know each other and later merge as an inter-generational group. The project is based on the novel ‘Momo’, chosen by the highschoolers: the primary focuses are the relationship with time and manipulability. 

The workshop titled “A to Z” will also serve as the public presentation of the season’s work. In this event we invite participants to step into the story and reflect on the given themes together with us.
The program would take place once in the Emil Keres Rehearsal Room of the theatre.
Duration: 2 hours 
Max. participants: 30 people.

Participatory Theatre Program

2022/23:

• The Paths Drawn by the Body (A test rajzolta újtaink)
  In a joint group of young adults with and without disabilities, we worked towards a common vision of integration.

2021/22:

• We Were Here! (Itt voltunk!)
  We used theatre in public spaces as a tool for social memory.

2020/21:

• 98 Gát Street (Gát utca 98.)
  How do we deal with the societal expectations that weigh on us? In our first participatory theater performance, we pondered this question together with the audience.

• Hope Neighbourhood (Remény lakótelep)
  During the COVID-19 pandemic, we created the Hope Neighbourhood

COMMUNITY THEATER, COMMUNITY CREATIONS

Year after year, young people aged 15-18 create community theater performances on topics of their own choice.

Theatre and School

We bring preparatory and follow-up sessions accompanying theatre performances into classrooms.

Teacher + Radnóti

We offer teacher training with action methods to finally make students active and engaged in their own learning process, and for teachers to respond to their real-life situations.