Their performance is based on Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, set in a society that at first appears utopian, where everything seems to go perfectly well. Free of injustice, crime, violence, and hunger, this is a society where people believe they can live in harmony.

But it’s only an illusion – a utopia for those deprived of knowledge. Slowly, signs emerge that reveal the anti-utopian qualities lurking behind this ideal world. In an unreal society, how much room is there for emotion? They ask this question, and perhaps it is the fear behind the answer that compels them to speak the truth: Hide reality so that their emotions always align with expectations.

In their new play, they aim to create an emotional ocean with a strange atmosphere, balancing on the border between dreams, utopia, surreality, and reality. It all unfolds in a space where the mask of perfection is slowly washed away by a reality in which they can finally begin to live.

Place: National Dance Theatre Budapest

Address: 1024 Budapest, Kis Rókus u. 16-20