Working with students has always been a mutually inspiring, creative process that has been very important to me. The theater’s role in shaping society works best among young audiences, and this is when I truly feel my work is meaningful.
Our performance A Loud Step Echos Through the Oktogon, which consisted of scenes by Generation Z authors, managed to capture the interest of high school and university students who otherwise rarely or never attend the theater. The popularity of this performance led to the creation of the DANTE CASINO theater organization.
We are not a company; our existence is open and flexible. As founders, I invited early-career yet already accomplished creators who wish to shape a theatrical language that reflects our present through collaboration with young audiences and aim to make their spectators open and curious. We focus primarily on the teenage age group, as they are the ones “without theater,” with very few performances addressing them. At the same time, we also collaborate with children and young adults. Our programs emphasize the importance of human relationships. Every other topic serves as a pretext to explore the ways we connect with others.
Our mentoring workshops, which usually last a year, aim to give young people interested in theater the opportunity to formulate independent ideas and questions and present them on stage with high aesthetic standards. Professional theater workshop practice thus becomes a space for youth self-expression, which is not production-oriented; the creative process is as important as the eventual performance. The mentoring workshop is a communal creative space where participants, guided by theater professionals close to their age yet experienced, get to know different forms and methods of theater as well as playwriting, and together we create a performance that is regularly presented as part of a theater repertoire. In these productions, mentored young participants often perform alongside mentor actors. This approach allows us to reach as many young people as possible, speaking in their voice, through the questions and issues they raise.

Founders: Petra Ács, Bendegúz Bartha, Máté Dezső Georgita, Toma Hrisztov, Ágoston Kenéz, Andrea Pass, Laura Podlovics, Kata Tóth, Benett Vilmányi