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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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Pindral

Where do we really come from? Where does the centuries-long persecution of Gypsy people date back? Where did we travel around and how did kings and princes treat us? The tale of an old Roma women provides insight to the history of Roma people. She begins her tale on Gypsy odyssey with creation myths, but the story gets worse and worse and it does not improve during the Habsburg rule and reaches rock bottom during the 2nd World War. After having lost half of the family, may communism bring some relief? The old woman believes so, but her daughter who just arrives home does not agree. Let's face the past together to be able to build a better future! The Czech ARA Art company invites us to an extraordinary historic journey in a new theatrical form, using elements of circus arts too.
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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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Four Slices of Cake

What do mothers mean to us? What do we learn from them and what is our favourite memory with our mother? They are the strongest, most persistent people who never give up, who we can always count on. The next story presents a mother, a hero who lives for her children. When I was a child, we rarely got any sweets. However, when mom went to the shop, we always looked forward to her return with great expectations. What will she bring us today? Lollypop? Melon-flavoured chewing gum? Or jellybeans? I remember, one day she drew a deep breath as she left to the shop. All we had was 500 HUF and she wanted to buy bread. I didn’t know how much 500 HUF was worth back in those days, but it must have been similar as it is today: not very much. When mom got home, she put down the bread on the table. She took out two lollipops from her pocket and gave them to us smilingly, then went to the kitchen to cook some potatoes. I remember, I was 6 years old when I first got a cake. It was a chocolate cake. We...
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