Seven Trials Theatre Troupe

The Seven Trials Theatre Troupe has a present for you! It’s behind the curtain, and you will have it. Soon. Just savor this moment and get a taste of the present before the present. The Present asks the audience to imagine what they want it to be and what they are ready to give up for it. In a twisted game show, two bouffons, darkly comic mischievous clowns, lure people into exploring all the facets of desire and greed. Who doesn’t like to have their cake and eat it too? And where does the deep desire to possess things come from? The Seven Trials Theatre Troupe is ready to fulfill your wishes, feed them, and play with them.

The Seven Trials Theatre Troupe (founded in 2023, Budapest) is made up of the performers and theater-makers Attila Lestyán (1994, Kézdivásárhely, Romania) and Veronika Szabó (1985, Salgótarján, Hungary). Both are experienced members of Hungary’s independent theater scene and decided to found an ensemble amid the precarious conditions it faces. Their name derives from their method of creating performances in just seven rehearsals. Lestyán and Szabó live in Budapest.