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Independent Theater's team members are Roma and non-Roma youngsters, theater creators and trainers.




Top row, from left to right: Edina Dömök (actress, trainer), Tamás Szegedi (actor, director, drama instructor, trainer), Eszter Bernáth (co-trainer), Rodrigó Balogh (art director), Vivien Balogh (trainer).
Bottom line, from left to right Tamás Boros (actor, drama instructor, trainer), Judit Macher (trainer, head of research in educational programs), Márton Illés (program director), Angéla Szabó (trainer) and Máté Lajhó (co-trainer). Photo by Alina Vincze



We work with the means of art and education so that the more people can:



get objective informations and learn about different point of views concerning the social issues that affect us all;



get inspired through Roma dramas and Roma heroes;



revise their attitudes about Roma communities and the relation between the majority and the minority.



By forming their own opinion and making their own decisions, they could be active citizens who take responsibility while also respect other’s point of view.



To realize those purposes, in summer of 2017 we organized the "Roma Heroes" First International Roma Storytelling Festival, where the plays Alina Serban: I declare at my own risk, Richard O'Neill: The Hardest Word, Dijana Pavlovic: Speak, my life, and Mihaela Dragan: Del Duma - she speaks were performed and  recorded on video.



Based on the performances and the videos, we made an educational material with the creators and the experts’ of our theatre.
With the help of this methodology, we are going to run workshops in autumn 2017, where we analyze the plays with the youngsters and support them to work with and perform their own stories about their own Roma heroes in creative ways.



Independent Theater is not a registered organisation.
For their artistic and educational activities since 2004, Independent Theater has received several awards among others by the UN Refugee Agency’s prize, Ibsen Award, and Social Marie Award.



The legal and financial representative of the theater is Women for the Future Association.

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Camp Hero

Is media for or against us? In what way does the media affect today? How can an article which is written for help change people's destiny? “The neighbours of the Roma camp in District X brought to our attention that for a few weeks now the people in the community have stopped using the public fountain which was the only water source they had. We went to the camp to investigate this mystery and found out that Viorica, ¨the man of the day¨, built a pipe system that fuels every household with water. The authorities should know, because this is an illegal act and the Roma are basically stealing water from the tax-paying citizens.” - Rome Daily The journalist goes to the camp to show Viorica the article she wrote and to congratulate her for becoming the camp hero. Viorica: But in this article you say that we are doing an illegal thing. Journalist: Yes, but I also helped you get to the authorities and made your problem public. Nobody would have done this for you....
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What Counts as a Punishment?

What can a schoolgirl do to fight injustice? What do we look for in pedagogues? What can we do for our children to be taught of equality and accepting each other in school? In primary school, I always sat in the first or second row. I hated it! I always wanted to sit in the last row because there, I could have been next to the window watching the whole class. From time to time, some of the "worst" boys were seated next to me. The rules for table plan were the following: 1.   bad students sit next to good students 2.   if you are a good student and do something wrong (which happened to me quite often) then you will get a Gypsy next to you For a few days or for months, it depended on the scale of the punishment. I liked those boys because they found this process unfair, too. I had three seatmate by this method in the first four years of primary school. When teachers realized that this seating arrangement was no problem for us and we even made friends, I ...
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The Perfect Grandma

We all need role models, heroes in our life whose acts and qualities serve as examples. Sometimes it takes time to realize that real heroes are all around us. Find your own hero! Oh, my darling granny. She loved us, her family, she did whatever she could for us. She was a vibrant ball of energy. She rushed from one grandchild to the other whole day long. She helped with household chores, made jam, cooked our favorite granny-cakes like no one else. She often told us about our badass grandpa and she kept loving, loving and loving. Words cannot express what she means to me even today. No doubt she had a huge impact both on my mother and me. We got the love and solidarity of the family from her. She lived her life with sacrifices and an everlasting smile on her face, she lived for us and for our happiness. We learned only after her death that besides everyday care, she had a secret that she never told anyone. A stray paper found after her death revealed this secret. My grandm...
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