A theatrical walk through evolutionary biology
Performance times: April 12-13, 2025
Meeting point: Children’s Railway, Budapest – Hűvösvölgy Station
The language of the presentation: Hungarian
🔸 12 April (Saturday)
Morning performance:
Start: 10:00 | Expected end: 11:30
Afternoon performance:
Start: 15:50 | Estimated end: 17:20
🔸 13 April (Sunday)
Morning performance:
Start: 10:00 | Expected end: 11:30
Afternoon performance:
Start: 15:50 | Expected end: 17:20
🌳 What stories does nature tell us?🌳
Our community theatre walk blends storytelling with science, integrating evolutionary biology, narrative traditions, dance and drama pedagogy, ecosomatics toolkit, circus arts, and theatrical techniques. At its core is knowledge—knowledge of ourselves and our environment, which we must explore and allow to reach us.
On this journey, we experience, learn, and connect with our past together, becoming part of a story that unfolds before us as a theatrical performance. Experienced guides will listen to individual needs, ensuring that everyone finds their own way to engage in the experience.
Evolution is an ongoing process of change, still happening today. It is a transformation that connects past and present, while all living and non-living things remain in constant interaction. Within this process, spanning millions of years, our stories are born—stories that help us recognize and experience our interconnectedness.
Our performance offers a glimpse into this vast evolutionary past, bringing it to life so that we can write it together. Artists from various disciplines have shaped this unique encounter through a year and a half of preparation.
Join us and become part of this one-of-a-kind community experience!
Creators and performers: Dorottya Biró, Pál Nyáry, Dorottya Podmaniczky, Napsugár Trömböczky, Lajos Rózsa
Scientific expert: Lajos Rózsa (Centre for Ecological Research)
Dramaturg: Panka Paskuj
Director: Viktor Szivák-Tóth
Duration: 90 minutes (without intermission)
Maximum number of participants: 40.
Special thanks to: Zselyke Molnos (Hungarian Ecopsychology Institute), Sára Ince (Jane Goodall Institute – Hungary), Hegyvidék Municipality
Please ASK! is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
It was implemented with the support of the National Cultural Fund.
*(Excerpt from Elek Benedek’s The Golden-Toothed Princes. The story is inspired by Elek Benedek’s collection and presented in a live storytelling format, freely adapted.)