Molnár Klára et al. (szerk.): Évkönyv a 2005/2006-os színi évadra (Budapest, 2007)
Bevezető
Introduction Longer, richer in content, and an enhanced inner structure - this is how we can describe the new volume of the Theatre Yearbook. With each new edition, we aim to assemble the richest and fullest report of theatrical events in the country, but due to length restrictions we can, of course, never include everything. Thanks to the updated databases though, further information is available beyond the pages of this volume, for anyone seeking it. The Yearbook is a true mirror of the Hungarian theatre. It reveals its diversity, energy, and its voice in society, whether following classical trends or going against the stream in the constantly changing world. We hope that this year’s publication provides useful information not only to theatre researchers, but also to audiences and theatre goers. The structural modifications in this year’s volume begin with the addition of the multicoloured organisational forms, allowing the dynamism of our present theatre to be shown. Old notions and categories become outdated, or acquire new meaning, and new phenomena in the theatre must be accounted for - so the collecting and organising must also evolve, allowing a more complex judgement. To use the words of István Örkény: “as soon as we have solved a problem, another comes up”. That said, we have not changed the basic structure of the Yearbook. The configuration is the same as it was four years ago. We start with the databank of the theatres. The data concerning the venues and companies is closed by a figure that refers to the number of premieres they each of them had this season. In the index of the new premieres we list the titles by alphabetical order. An important change to note is that we have not separated the productions of the open-air theatres and the Hungarian theatres operating outside Hungarian borders. This grouping is an attempt to express that these performances organically belong to the Hungarian theatre art. To determine the genre of each theatre piece is becoming more and more difficult - a wonderful sign of complexity, no doubt. However, we did list the new opera productions seperately, as, in our opinion, they do belong to a different genre. The strongest trend in the Hungarian theatre tradition is an ensemblebased repertory season. Therefore, it makes the most sense to publish each company’s repertoire once more, listing the performances from the most 9
