Janovics featured at the 25th Partium Hungarian Days

The Hungarian Theatre of Cluj will kick off its 2026/2027 season at the 25th anniversary Partium Hungarian Days, where audiences can see the production of Janovics, directed by Attila Vidnyánszky Jr. The event is the region’s largest cultural and community festival, featuring concerts, theater performances, family and children’s programs, and a craft fair.

Inspired by the life of Jenő Janovics, the play was created based on a script by Miklós H. Vecsei and Nikolett Németh, combined with improvisations by the creative team. The production will be presented as a studio performance on August 19, Wednesday at 7:00 pm, in the Main Hall of the Northern Theater in Satu Mare.

“Sometimes we are movie-goers, sometimes theatergoers — witnesses and participants in the famous final performance in Cluj before the annexation, when the brilliant Miklós Bács, the embodiment of Janovics, and after multiple endings, we leave like this, seeing our exit during the intermission on the screen, looking back over our shoulders, while he, the actor-director, accompanies us with his watchful gaze. This performance is also about the moral dilemma of how we choose between two evils: should we welcome the intruder, or should we continue the performance without an audience — or is there a gap, a space for play, that we notice or create?” — wrote Edit V. Gilbert about the performance.

The title role is played by Miklós Bács, with additional roles performed by József Bíró, Róbert M. Kardos, Csilla Albert, Zsuzsa Tőtszegi, Balázs Bodolai, Éva Imre, Lóránd Váta, Lilla Pánczél, Hannah Daradics, Zsolt Gedő, Tamás Kiss, Gedeon András, and Loránd Farkas.

Contributors to the production include: Csaba Csíki (set designer), Zsuzsanna Cs. Kiss (costume designer), Dávid Mester (composer), István Berecz (choreographer), and Nikolett Németh (dramaturg).

Tickets for the performance in Satu Mare can be purchased at the box office of the Northern Theater in Satu Mare, as well as online at www.entertix.ro.