The performance Heroines’ Square is an urban frontstage musical about gender inequality. It takes place in the city, and it aim at exploting how gender inequality is reflected in the city, in the public sphere. It is a frontstage musical because it foregrounds everything that remains invisible in relation to women’s existence and needs, all in the performance of the SIrens of Varsány feminist choir and female dancers.
The route of the performance connects urban locations that show gender inequality, different city usage habits, and different needs in different ways, thus dealing with, among other things, the female aspect of issues related to representation, safety, and transportation, but also with the needs arising from our most basic needs, the biological characteristics of the female body. It uses the public space as its context, its stage, but also as an associational terrain, which sometimes “involuntarily” goes beyond the dimension of the city.
The performance seeks answers to questions such as how we as women can take possession of the city? What do we miss? What needs remain unanswered? What experiences come to us through our bodies, and through these, how do we acquire social constructions that reproduce gender differences? It is important not only because the performance takes place in a public space, because it presents the situation of women through this, but also because it can be considered a female occupation of space (kinetically and with sound), a “taking possession” of the city, it means visibility, and last but not least, it also keeps in mind the issue of accessibility. It experiments with sensitization in a fundamentally insensitive space, but one of which sensitivity should be an important part.
Performers: Veronika Klausz, Vivien Piti, Zsófi Szász, Helén Tamaskó, Flóra Veres (dance) and the SIrens of Varsány choir
Composer, choir director: Laura Szári
Costume designer: Dominika Dömötör
Set designer: Lili Thury
Dramaturge: Luca Borsos
Assistant director: Zsuzsi Balogh
Choreographer-director: Zita Thury
Special thanks: Böröndy Júlia, Balogh Kata, Solymár Fanni, Szász Zsófi, Balog Eszter, Thury Gábor, Szepes Anna, Albert Zoltán, Ferencz Mónika, M. Tóth Zsuzsanna, Suhajda Marika, Varenke György, and the members of the Sirens of Varsány Choir who don’t participate in the performance, but contributed to the creation
Dates and times:
27th of September 2025, 4:30 PM,
28th of September 2025, 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Meeting point: Epreskert (Hungarian University of Fine Arts), 1062 Budapest, Bajza u. 41.
Language: Hungarian (with English printed text)
Age restriction: over the age of 14
Ticketed performance.
Ticket prices:
Full price: 4000 HUF
Discount ticket (students, seniors): 3000 HUF
Supporter ticket: 6000 HUF
Purchase tickets HERE
The performance was realized in the framework of Staféta program, announced and supported by the Municipality of Budapest.
Supported by:
Municipality of Budapest,
Staféta,
Füge Produkció,
Stereo Akt,
Irene Plaque
Partners:
SUB.LAB PRO
SÍN Arts Centre
Workshop Foundation
A photo and audio recording will be made at the event. By participating in the event, the participant gives his/her consent to the recording and publication of his/her appearance and expressions.