Golem Theatre Budapest, Hungary

1, Hollo street • Budapest
1075 Hungary
Phone: +36 20 9730343
e-mail: golem@golemtheatre.com

MISSION
Golem is first and foremost a theatre. Similarly to any other artist or artistic endeavour, it strives to make the world a better place. Second of all, it is Jewish. Life, death, love, hate, passion and revenge stride across the stage, all reflecting on a religion, a culture, a people, a worldview. Thirdly, it is in Budapest. Golem regards the many thousands years of Jewish tradition and culture as its core, at the same time aware that it has a cultural mission to fulfil in Europe, in Hungary, in Budapest.

Working as a Jewish theatre in Central-Europe is an enormous responsibility and a huge challenge; unavoidably clean and dirty laundry alike gets displayed in public. Golem cannot turn a blind eye to the weaknesses and mistakes of the Jewish community, its individual members and its leaders – it aims to be both critical and self-critical.

2008-2009 Season

Open Jewish Stage - Our Story
August 30, 2008
In 2007 a small group of young European Jews met in Budapest in order to create a performance in 36 hours. It had such success
that 6 months later the event was repeated. Open Jewish Stage is a tool to gather theatre lovers to help make their dream come true. The participants are from a variety of walks of life from amateur
to professional theatre and what makes them a group is their commitment to Jewish heritage.

The Karavan - Family
The play will be performed in the following cities:
October 12, 2008 - Bucharest
October 13, 2008 - Sofia
October 15, 2008 - Istanbul
October 16, 2008 - Thessaloniki
October 18, 2008 - Belgrade

Karavan is a traveling Jewish theatre group. Its participants are theatre lovers from various European countries. The group will meet again from the 4th to the 7th of September in Sofia and during that weekend, with the professionals from Golem theatre they, will create a new show called Family.

The American Princess
by Nissim Aloni
January 2009