Inside dunaPart: Making theatre on the Hungarian independent scene
Tamás Jászay provides an insider’s view on the 6th edition of dunaPart, the Hungarian independent performing arts showcase, which took place in November 2023.
Jászay Tamas is a theatre critic, editor, university lecturer, and curator. Since 2003 he's been working as a freelance theatre critic: in the last 20 years he published more than 1200 articles (mostly reviews) in more than 20 magazines all around the world. Since 2008 he is co-editor, since 2021 editor-in-chief of the critical portal, Revizor (www.revizoronline.com). Between 2009 and 2016 he was working as the co-president of the Hungarian Theatre Critics' Association. In 2013 he defended his PhD thesis on the history of Krétakör Theatre (Chalk Circle Theatre). He regularly works as a curator too: Hungarian Showcase (Budapest, 2013), Szene Ungarn (Vienna, 2013), THEALTER Festival (Szeged, since 2014), dunaPart (Budapest, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023). Since 2015 he's been teaching at Szeged University, since 2019 as an assistant professor.
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