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The winning project of the Stand Up Roma call for proposals, launched in collaboration with Trafó and the Independent Theatre Hungary.

A performance that straddles the line between stand-up and monodrama: an actor gives his audience acting lessons on how to build a character through stories drawn from his life. The “lessons” are both playful and confronting. They show how we look at each other and what we see in others.

The protagonist of the monodrama does not fit into any social “box”: he faces ethnic prejudice because of his skin color, political labels because of his baldness, and distancing because of his physique. His appearance has always determined who he is all his life, even before he can speak. Now on stage, he takes back control of the narrative and tells us what we are like.

The new play by playwright Edina Tallér and actor Csaba Gerner examines how everyday, yet systematically repeated, micro-discriminations shape a person’s life – from shoplifting and “routine checks” to medical examinations and rejections at work.

Rosszarc is a fiction, theater play, and human mirror based on personal experiences: it explores the possibility of whether we are able to distinguish prejudice from experience, whether we have the ability to connect to the community, and to approach each other and thus ourselves without prejudice.

Photo: Máté Kalicz / Trafó