Third Theatre of P\u00e9cs was founded by J\u00e1nos Vincze at the end of the 1980s in the cultural centre of the closed uranium mine. This theatre, organized as a grassroots effort driven by the changes at the time, achieved significant professional recognition by the mid-1990s with their operations creating workshop opportunities for art collectives producing performances and their successful shows\u2014\u00d6rk\u00e9ny trilogy: Pisti a v\u00e9rzivatarban (Steve in the Blood Storm), Kulcskeres\u0151k (Key Finders), Forgat\u00f3k\u00f6nyv (Script); J\u00e1nos Pilinszky: Gyerekek \u00e9s katon\u00e1k (Children and Soldiers); S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek: Emigr\u00e1nsok (Emigrants); Gy\u00f6rgy Spir\u00f3: Csirkefej (Chicken Head); Mil\u00e1n F\u00fcst: Boldogtalanok (The Unhappy Ones). Although they were not a professional company, several of their performances were featured in the competition programme of national theatre festivals, which brought a very important change, a break in the Hungarian theatrical structure at the time. Based on their operation and results, according to the decision of the first freely elected general assembly of the city of P\u00e9cs, on 1 January 1995, the Third Theatre of P\u00e9cs became a hosting theatre without a resident company with a production-based organizational system receiving support from the local government as well as aid from the central budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten of their productions have been included in the competition programme of national theatre festivals over twenty years: Csirkefej (Chicken Head), Halleluja (Hallelujah), Boldogtalanok (The Unhappy Ones), T\u00f3t\u00e9k (The T\u00f3t Family), A gondnok (The Caretaker), Kvartett (Quartet), Eln\u00f6kn\u0151k (Lady Presidents), Szappanopera (Soap Opera), Macskaj\u00e1t\u00e9k (Cat\u2019s Play), A G\u00e9zagyerek (That G\u00e9za Boy). Their shows were have been awarded on 9 occasions: Best Performace, Best Direction, Best Dramaturge, Best Costumes, Best Female Supporting Role x2, Best Male Supporting Role x2, Special Prize x1. All their competition shows were directed by J\u00e1nos Vincze, who was awarded the J\u00e1szai Prize in 2001 for establishing the Third Theatre of P\u00e9cs and the \u201cstaging of high artistic quality\u201d of Hungarian plays. As Istv\u00e1n N\u00e1nay wrote in his essay published in Jelenkor magazine: \u201cThere is a theatre that can be called the workshop of Hungarian drama without any pompousness or exaggeration. It is the Third Theatre of P\u00e9cs, which has been steadily working for its goals for twenty years\u2014always keeping the focus of its repertoire on performing Hungarian plays. Their theatre programmes feature both premieres of beginner playwrights and replays of classic works. Not to mention that in P\u00e9cs, in this great city, the Third Theatre also plays for children, and their shows are almost exclusively written by Hungarian authors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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