February Bargains

Couples’ Discount on Valentine’s Day

Szigligeti Theatre announces a Valentine’s Day ticket discount: those who wish to go to the theatre with their partner can do so at half price on the 14th of February, with our show Tango. The basic conflict of the drama by Sławomir Mrożek stems from the value difference between different generations. The seemingly mundane disputes among members of a family escalate into extreme opposition between parents and children, toned down by a singular humour, irony and satire, as well as a series of unexpected twists. Tickets for the studio performance are already on sale at the theatre’s booking office, but also online. 

Mine Comedies at Szigligeti

On the last weekend in February, Szigligeti Theatre performs the first two parts of Csaba Székely’s Mine Trilogy: on the 23th, at 7 pm, Mine Flower, while on the 24th, at 7 pm, Mone Blindness will be on the stage of Szigligeti Studio.

Szigligeti Theatre has been playing the first part of the trilogy with resounding success since 2016. At the core of Mine Flower, we find the gray and dull reality of a small Transylvanian village. The play tells, with unmatched humor and irony, about a decaying society that has unblamably stopped in progress, one that is unable to deal with a day-to-day sense of foreignness, sustaining an appearance of happiness instead. A TV crew arrives to the village to report about the alarming increase of suicide rates, and when they interview the locals, they proudly declare that they keep their traditions responsably, under any circumstance.

Mine Blindness, first performed in 2018, draws attention to another aspect of community life: with a sense of humour that we are already accustomed to from Székely’s part, it comments on corruption as well as Romanian-Hungarian relationships. The location is familiar to those who know the first part of the trilogy, Mine Flower, only this time, it is inhabited by typical characters that take part in the rivalry to become mayor of the small commune. Ince, the current mayor is clinging tooth and nail to his office, and will do anything to get his main rival, ultra-nationalist Izsák, to step down. He invites commissar Florin Lupescu, a Romanian police officer who also speaks Hungarian, to the village, but the latter will focus his attention mainly on the issues related to corruption, in which the mayor is not at all innocent. Ince's carreer is in danger, as his own family slowly falls apart...

Tickets

Tickets ű are available at the theatre’s booking office (open Monday and Thursday 10 am to 3 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 2pm - 7pm, as well as one hour before the start of our shows), or online, at www.biletmaster.ro. Discounts are available only with tickets bought at the booking office.