To make the city even more liveable, the focus is on citizen participation.
As surveyors, the audience is released into the urban space using a measuring device to collect data. The path to the smart city is the goal: What is the city around me? What role do I play in it? The staging of public space with digital technology reinterprets places, turns the spectator into a player and puts them in Kafkaesque situations. Experience urban space as a stage for virtual theatre. In Budapest@Play, you become the protagonist of an interactive story.

The performance can only be visited individually.

The single-person city walking tour starts at the lobby of Kolibri Theatre. It lasts approximately 60 minutes per participant. Tickets booked are valid for an hour. One spectator can start the play every four minutes, so please be prepared for a short wait for your turn. It is advised to wear comfortable clothes and shoes appropriate for the actual weather. The program will not be cancelled in case of light rain.

Author: Robert Griess
Director: Dirk Neldner, Johanna Jäger
Game Design: Sven Ehrentraut
Choreographer: Wagner Moreira
Dramaturge: Kerstin Weiß
Cast: Dr. Klamm: Peter Scollin; Cuci: Rebecca Scott; Barnabas: Robin Merrill; Frieda: Rebecca Kenny; Choir: Harriet Barnard, Charlie Dupré, Leo Auri, Priscilla Bergey; Dance Quartett: Gianmarco Martini Zani, Rodrigo Opaz Castro, Christian Senatore, Simon Wolant; Dance Duet: Emilia Lakic, Christian Senatore; Yoga: Alena Krivileva; Motion Capture Cuci: Camilla Bizzi; Rotpeter: Sebastian Matthias Weissbach; Civil servant: Tom Hantschel; Influencer: Dawn Patricia Robinson; Lady: Judith Shoemaker; Man: Armin Moallem; Traffic light green man: Charlie Dupré; Traffic light red man: Florian Korty; Traffic light yellow man: Priscilla Bergey; Driver (Cartoon): Florian Korty; Mother (Cartoon): Judith Shoemaker; Bycicle courier (Cartoon): Armin Moallem; Parcel carrier (Cartoon): Peter Scollin; E-Cargobike (Cartoon): Judith Shoemaker; Pedestrian (Cartoon): Anja Scollin; Digital Twin: Kirsten Labonte, Julia Rani, Judith Shoemaker

Cooperation partners: Academy for Theatre and Digitality Dortmund | DE:HIVE Institute of HTW Berlin| Expanding Focus GmbH - playground for virtual spaces, Leipzig | PlayOn! – New Storytelling with Immersive Technologies | Tinkertank – An initiative of the Interactive Media Foundation 
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and Kulturstiftung des Bundes within dive_in, Programme for Digital Interactions

The so-called “detective game” built on digital interaction is a one-of-a-kind enterprise in the Hungarian theatre scene: the spectators themselves shape the storyline with the help of a mobile phone application, thus influencing the plot by way of their votes throughout the entire play. The odds are high: are we to choose security or freedom, control or a future full of hazards? The topic of the show is the growing surveillance technology: the girl is in danger, hiding at the same time from her hotshot mother and a mysterious human rights activist. She feels that every step she takes is monitored. Shall the girl become a heroine or a traitor?” – the question is raised. 

Director: György Vidovszky
Author: Attila Eck, György Vidovszky based on Esther Richardson’s and Cecilie Lundsholt’s original play „Traitor”
Set and costume design: Patrícia Pajor, Anett Herman
Software development: Ben Kirman
Webdesign: Nándor Gidró
Music: András Monori
Technical manager: István Farkas
Admin: Balázs Fekete / Bálint Keszte
Video: Gergő Bárdi, Kinga Albert
Video clips: Attila Krausz, Ab Ovo Stúdió
Pedagogical expert: Eszter Gyevi-Bíró
Assistant of Director: Andrea Hajsz
Cast: Bernadett: Bea Tisza, Emma: Krisztina Nyirkó, Ádám: Gábor Krausz, Pizza Guy: Dániel Nizsai

Let’s have a look into the future! But we are facing a future that seems to be chaotic, overwhelming and disturbing. What are we connected to? What does our reality feel like? Are we lost to the world? Is the world lost to us?
The literary temple is the archive of the internet. The aim is to develop a collage of voice, body, sound and surrounding to depict the digital environment's simultaneity, explore the current situation, and ask for strategies to face the future with courage and joy.

Author, Director: Annette Müller
Stage and Costume designer: Oliver Kostecka
Dramaturge: Milena Kowalski
Sounds & Programming: Michael Lohmann
Engineering, technique and programming: Nils Corte, Roman Senkl
Cast: Thomas Ehrlichmann, Ann-Kathrin Hinz, Rainer Kleinespel

In 1984: Ministry of Love, you will become a part of the jury that will pass judgement on the accused. You will get access to the unique mobile application and court files. Pressing the button changes somebody’s life. Are you ready to take responsibility for these people? Are you in this game?
The performance, whose starting point is the famous novel by George Orwell, 1984, will be an interactive game with the viewer, who will be at the Ministry of Love when they enter the theatre venue. 1984: The Ministry of Love asks what the power of the people becomes in the oppressive situation of invasion of someone’s memory. 

Director: Katarzyna Minkowska
Author: Piotr Froń inspired by George Orwell
Stage designer: Katarzyna Minkowska
Costume designer: Julia Goździk
Choreographer: Aneta Jankowska
Dramaturge: Piotr Froń
Composer: Wojciech Frycz
Lights: Maciej Kaszyński
Technology and app specialist: Kamil Kamysz
Cast: Anna Pijanowska, Piotr Franasowicz, Weronika Kowalska, Piotr Pilitowski, Barbara Szałapak, Jagoda Pietruszkówna

A natural science student decides to create a human being. The experiment is an unexpected success. Its creator, however, despairs. We discover that the author, Mary Shelley, is not entirely comfortable with it either. Throughout her life, she denies and downplays the literary scope of her work.
Between wireless headsets, virtual settings, real actors and holographic avatars, the show is a dreamlike journey into the novel and, at the same time, into the lived experience of its author, who confuses herself with Dr Frankenstein, the Creature, with the Work and the characters with memories.

Author, Director: Ivonne Capace -Inspired by Mary Godwin Shelley’s writing
Stage, Costume designer: Micol Vighi
Dramaturge: Ivonne Capace
Sound designer: Simone Arganini
Technician: Angelo Generali
Light design, video: Cristina Spelti
Cast:
On stage: Maria Laura Palmeri,
In video: Lara Di Bello, Giuditta Mingucci

Alex must have missed the time. There's no other explanation for why he doesn't show up for the performance - he's usually so reliable. Waiting for him isn't an option; after all, the audience is already there. So what to do? Without further ado, the props assistant helps pass the time until Alex arrives. A story unfolds, in which questions about time are answered in a playful and researching manner.

Author, Director: Nele Neitzke
Stage, costume design: the University of Arts Linz, Course STAGE DESIGN by Stefan Brandtmayr
Dramaturge: Elias Lehner, Martin Schönbauer
Visuals: Nils Gallist, Manuel Lattner, Masterstudents of University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Cast: Isabella Campestrini

Three stories open the world of the English northern landscape in virtual reality, what it means to come from it, live in it and belong to it. Monoliths interweaves radiant renderings of three northern UK environments – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi. At once imaginative and immersive, this VR experience is an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place.

The performance can only be visited individually.

This virtual performance can be attended by 3 people every 20 minutes.

Director: Lucy Hammond
Author: Hannah Davies, Amsa Elbadawi and Carmen Marcus
Composer: May Chi
Sound Designer: Mariana Lopez
Creative VR Development: Andy Campbell & Judi Alston
Cast:
Voice Overs: Hannah Davies, Asma Elbadawi and Carmen Marcus

NOMADS tells the story of a woman (Annuszka) in an urban context, entangled in everyday life, who, from the moment when she meets an indigent homeless woman (Galina), abandons her family and spends the following months traversing metro lines, travelling non-stop, refusing to go back home.
Every night Annuszka and Galina meet, walk around the city looking for shelter, and talk about freedom and safety.

Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Director: João Neca
Stage designer: Rui Francisco
Costume designer: Catarina Fernandes
Dramaturge: João Neca
Composer: Nicolas Cristancho
Video design: Elena Tilli
Light design: Rita Louzeiro
Robotics: Carlos Carreto
Production: Diana Martins
Cast: Ana Lúcia Palminha, Rita Brito