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Let’s create art together with the city’s most progressive company, in the most open-minded theatre.

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CLOSER - Produce theatre together

Let’s create art together with the city’s most progressive company, in the most open-minded theatre.

Let’s create art together with the city’s most progressive company, in the most open-minded theatre.

Let’s create art together with the city’s most progressive company, in the most open-minded theatre.

Let’s create art together with the city’s most progressive company, in the most open-minded theatre.

Anna Kudron
Anna Kudron
Anna Kudron
Anna Kudron
1 Campaign |
Budapest, Hungary
$2,595 USD 21 backers
15% of $16,800 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Short Summary

Social responsibility does not exempt from the obligation of individual responsibility. Let’s create art together, with the city’s most progressive company, in the city’s most open-minded theatre.

011 Production Group and Atrium Film-Theatre would like to collaborate on the premiere of Patrick Marber’s Closer, to be directed by the young Hungarian artist, Márk Radnai (26). The production will be the continuation of our two-year-old collaboration. 011 collects young, creative actors, artists, filmmakers, and designers, whom the management of Atrium Film-Theatre thinks important to support. The English playwright’s play premiered in 1997 in London; making Marber and his work immediately world-renowned. Since then, the play had been on the program of several Hungarian theatres.

Responsible for the program production in Atrium Film-Theatre is the English Language Theatre Charitable Foundation, which tends to its philanthropic cultural activity since 1991. With its programs and genre-diversity, the cultural center in Buda functions as a professional and local meeting point and host theatre. The program is made up by contemporary Hungarian and international theatre, dance, classical music, film, and fine art. For Atrium Film-Theatre, it is of utmost importance to assist contemporary young directors in staging their new projects. For the staging of this production – besides own and sponsorship resources – 011 Production Group and Atrium Film-Theatre would like to set up an Indiegogo project for the first time in their joint history to acquire the necessary funds.

With supporting our project, you contribute to…

- a young group working with new artistic methods and representing a fresh trend to prepare their next premiere

- helping young artists to produce the funds necessary for their work with an independent campaign

- furthermore, you get involved with the creation of a theatre performance

Premiere: 11th May, 2015. Budapest, Atrium Film-Theatre


Synopsis of the play

Patrick Marber’s play is about love, the desire to own each other, and revenge, and shows it through the story of four people. It is the love rectangle of two men and two women, where fundamentally lonesome and interdependent people look for happiness and fulfillment in each other, trying to redeem their own lives through one another.

In London a taxi accidentally hits a girl, who introduces herself to the passenger of the taxi as Alice when he is taking her to the hospital. Dan, who wants to be a journalist and works for a newspaper’s obituary column, is immediately mesmerized by the girl’s straightforwardness and strong sexual aura. Alice has just arrived at home from New York where she was working as a stripper. Dan writes a novel based on the girl’s story, and he does a photoshoot for publicity where he meets the older and less vulnerable Anna. Dan is unable to get Anna out of his head, so he starts writing in the photographer’s name on a sex-chat page to Larry, the doctor, who is dumbstruck by the dirty-mouthed erotica that Dan beleaguers him with. Dan goes even further: he arranges a date with the doctor in Anna’s name to an aquarium he knows is Anna’s favorite place…

The plot takes place in London where the photographer, the stripper, the writer, and the doctor fatalistically meet. They keep cheating on each other, and they are cheated on, too. Love is vital to them, but only if they cannot get it. If it is at hand, it’s not exciting anymore.

Kata DOBÓ as Anna

Judit OSVÁTH as Alice

Zsolt ANGER as Larry

Ádám KOVÁCS as Dan


Cast and Crew

Set design: Renátó CSEH

Costume design: Júlia Luca ERDŐS 

Dramaturge: Ambrus IVANYOS

Lighting design: Miklós MERVEL

Sound design: Zsolt BALOGH

Production manager: Nóra ZÁGONI

Assistant: Nikolett MAGÓCS

Head of Communication (011): Csaba GOSZTONYI

Project supervisor: László MAGÁCS

Project manager: Anna KUDRON

Director: Márk RADNAI

Cast:

Zsolt ANGER

Kata DOBÓ

Ádám KOVÁCS

Judit OSVÁTH

(Márk RADNAI and Renátó CSEH during planning the show.)

Set design for "Aquarium", "Exhibition" and "Home" scenes by Renátó CSEH

Set design for "Lapdance", "Restaurant" and "Museum" scenes by Renátó CSEH


About 011 Production Group 

Every theatre production has to create a unique world, system in which the spectator can recognise the events important for him through a series of partial truths; he can put the pieces together like in a puzzle. A good theatre is like the rabbit’s hole for us, where space and time changes every minute, where the actor turns into something different, he is a machine, a plant, an animal and human, statue and animation. Where the memories of our subconscious are connected to the main storyline with a thousand threads, where the numerous manifestations of the world around us can be animated within moments. Where in a concentrated moment I can feel the pouring rain, last year’s love, the fantasy comics or my latest family meal. Where the scenes don’t follow each other in a linear way, but every small unit can stand on its own as an individual vision, social message or even just an impression, but if I want, I can add to the plot by simply creating a story and going on writing my own story. The question ‘what is this scene or sentence doing here?’ cannot come up in theatre. It has to create a system in which these specks of dust roll by themselves and I can either identify myself with them or they disturb me. If the theatre doesn’t carry this kind of freedom, this kind of interpretation network, then it becomes predictable and transparent.

Since the founding of 011 Production Group they have created productions in a wide variety of genres. What connect them are the modern, non-conventional film-like narratives and visuals, furthermore, the experimentation with technologies not fundamentally connected to theatre. There is no company behind the group, though mostly they work with the same group of young actors in their productions. The members of the creative team are: Márk Radnai, director; Renátó Cseh, designer; and Ambrus Ivanyos, dramaturge. The performances aren’t usually created from already existing plays, but are written by the creative team, using actors’ improvisations, situation practices, and outside sources to create the script. The younger generation follows the production group’s work closely, as well. Another thing that makes 011 Production Group exceptional is that they create unique promotion campaigns for each of their performances. They have organised the first 011 Festival between 7-11 June, 2014, in Budapest.

WEB: www.011production.com (videos and more press information)

Facebook: www.facebook.com/011csoport

You can read some press releases about 011 Production Group’s previous works. You all know these stories and dramas, but the interpretation, the techniques, mixing the different art genres, and such a visual quality on stage is very unique.

3D MAPPING, NEW INTERPRETATION: MEANWHILE IN KANSAS

“The world of The Wizard of Oz was never exactly close to me. Márk Radnai and the production directed by him and, of course, the techniques used, however, offered an interpretation of the story through which an interpretation yet unknown was added to the stumbling along of Dorothy and her friends.”

http://www.szinhazkolonia.hu/kritika/Ozhoz-vezeto-utak

THE PILLOWMAN

“Director Márk Radnai has staged something that is rarely seen in Hungarian theatres. Martin McDonagh’s Pillowman namely mixes the genres of a thriller, a horror or a revenge play, a whodunit, a black comedy, and a political play.”

http://www.prae.hu/prae/articles_ny.php?aid=6948


About Atrium Film-Theatre 

Atrium Film-Theatre is a cultural center and theatre. The beautiful art deco building of Atrium was reborn after 12 years of neglect, with a new function and a new vocation. It was converted into a theatre, café, and community place, where art meets entertainment and quality leisure time. Its programs include contemporary Hungarian and international theatre, dance, and music performances; films and fine art. Besides offering public relations and artistic, technical, and financial support for artists, Atrium also stages its own productions every year, participates in theatre and performance festivals, and cooperates with cultural institutions. Atrium hosted „bEUgró” festival with almost 1500 performers, held as part of the jubilee celebrations of Hungary joining the European Union in 2004. Atrium’s current director, László Magács supervised the event.

Atrium opened its gates in October 2012, in Budapest. Atrium is a good example of how a civil association can build a new financial model to effectuate a cultural institute. Atrium’s funds come mostly from ticket sales and sponsorships, which give the financial base for the 10-13 premieres per season, the assistance to host several independent theatre companies, and to house around 250 performances and almost 60,000 visitors each year. Our technical facilities, the capacity, and the professional catering personnel make Atrium an ideal venue for various events in a wide variety of styles and forms. Atrium invites young artists, dramaturges, actors, directors, and designers to collaborate on projects. Atrium is open to artistic projects that discuss important social topics, such as gender issues, violence, social changes, and exclusion in Hungary. Both entertainment and education are an important part of the artistic concept, as well as offering a place for local and professional communities. The staff is skilled for both working on hosted shows, as well as on original productions, with an entire artistic crew at the ready.

Atrium is an important platform for international collaborations, utilizing the different areas of performing arts to create new productions. Film, contemporary visual culture, and the elements of theatre combined create the unique image of Atrium. The 20-years-old relationships of Merlin Theatre (the previous institute run by the foundation), and the European and American collaborations help us exhibit the most contemporary, new theatrical directions and successes in Budapest.

More detailed program (mostly HUN) 

www.atriumfilmszinhaz.hu

http://www.facebook.com/atriumfilmszinhaz


About Closer

English playwright, Patrick Marber’s play premiered in 1997 in London; making Marber and his work immediately world-renowned. Closer did not only conquer stages all around the globe, but the 2004 movie directed by Mike Nichols had famous actors like Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, and Clive Owen starring in the lead roles.

In Hungary, several theatres had the play previously on show: the former Vidám Színpad (Central Theatre, 2006), Móricz Zsigmond Theatre (2009), Merlin Theatre (2011), Vörösmarty Theatre (2012), National Theatre of Pécs (2014).


What We Need & What You Get

With this Indiegogo campaign, we would like to raise $16,800 that would be distributed in the budget as follows:

Set and costume design: $7,500

Honorariums (director, dramaturge, assistant, actors, set and costume designers): $7,500

Advertising, PR: $1,800


Risks & Challenges

By 2015 the Hungarian culture funding has reached the point where the layer of consumers who can afford it need to step up and become a part of supporting culture, thus taking individual responsibility for it. Without it, the financing and freshness of culture, art and theatre, and the work of artistic communities will be impossible. The whole budget of the campaign will become a part of an easily traceable accounting system, with the whole accounting done by the charitable foundation behind Atrium (English Language Theatre Charitable Foundation), that will also be responsible for signing contracts with the creative personnel working on the production. 011 Production Group and Atrium aspire to create a clear and optimal budget with the campaign that will ensure the quality of the production.


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Guided Tour at Rehearsal

$200 USD
Once we start the rehearsal period, everybody focuses for the preparation of the show. Every minute counts, every idea and creative moment brings something new. We offer for small groups (with max. 10 person) a guided tour, led by the director or a creator. You will meet the actors, the theatre's crew, you can see the stage, the set designs on paper, the preparation method. You can join us in the backstage to see the rehearsal. Its possible that you share the hardest or even the funniest moment.
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Thank You Information

$10 USD
We would like to inform you about the project, the premier and the life after that. The 011 Production Group and Atrium Film-Theatre will plan next projects as well. We would like to give You information how we develop our project what You also helped to realise. You are our first contributor and we are happy that You joined us.
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Special Thanks Online

$100 USD
011 Production Group and Atrium Film-Theatre make promotions and inform visitors mostly online. This is efficient and we can afford from our promotion budget. We use less and less printed media. So we will say a Special Thanks online, because our followers and visitors will see right there that You believed in this project and produced this show together with us.
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Premier's dinner with Artists

$400 USD
We organise a premier's gala dinner together with the creators and actors. The dinner will take place right after the first show at Atrium Film-Theatre. We invite your for a toast with a champagne and special 011-Atrium dinner. You can spend this evening the artist and crew together and ask them about their experiences or share your ideas. What we like to speak about? Art and culture, creativity and creation, of course! But anything else, we are interested too.
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