Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest is introducing American theatre in its 9th edition and partnered New York’s innovative multi-disciplinary art center Performance Space 122, a venue known for ground-breaking, adventurous performance and committed to finding, nurturing and presenting the best and the brightest of emerging performing artists as well as discovering artists who are creating new disciplines, defying conventions, and expanding the parameters of performance as we know it.

Temporary Distortion (USA): Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road)
Theatre

27-28th November 2010 8PM
Venue: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
In English with Hungarian subtitles.

’’Temporary Distortion's deconstructionist take on the modern American road movie, is a captivating, hypnotic, and mesmerizing work of art, easily one of the best plays I've seen this year...’’ James Comtois, New York Theatre

Welcome to Nowhere is a hybrid of theater and cinema. During the performance, a constant stream of video is projected above the cast. In scenes of prolonged stillness, silence and impassivity, doppelgangers of the characters we meet onstage navigate a hyper-real cinematic landscape as if lost in a dream, fractured memories creating parallel narratives that echo, reflect and refract each moment of the play and paint a haunting picture of the’ road movie paradox’ of being rootless and constantly in transit therefore simultaneously free and trapped. (Free because you've escaped your rooted life, trapped because you're stuck with your thoughts and memories with no release.)

Temporary Distortion has earned a reputation for pushing the boundaries of theater by staging unsettling, meditative performances in claustrophobic, boxlike structures. Featuring minimal physical movement and a uniquely restrained acting style, these four-dimensional theatrical installations bridge the gap between cinema, performance and visual art.

On the 27th November, the performance will be followed by a post-show discussion with the artists, in English, moderated by Andrea Rádai, theatre critic."

Source: trafo.hu