The Symptoms (Budapest): SÉANCE

If you hurt me, I'll start crying. If you are being nice, I'll start smiling. If you pay attention, I'll put on a show for you. If you do something interesting, I'll want to do the same. If you have something, I'll want it, too. I cheat and lie to win. If I lose after all, I'll tell on you.

"It is a see-saw game created by the perfectly complementary, consummate artistry of five dancers and two actors. Every now and then, one of them takes the lead and the others follow along, dexterously, reluctantly, or making fun of their own feigned clumsiness. […] The show is a great deal of fun indeed, with virtuoso changes of pace, inexhaustible imagination, and never a false step out of rhythm.
(Judit Csáki, Magyar Narancs, Vol. XVIII issue 42)

“You can only inhale what I have exhaled before you. This rule of thumb supplies the cohesive force for the Club of Arrhythmic Hearts. If you think about it, it’s not just the mock-inane company of The Symptoms in performance of Séance that this law binds together, but any other set of people operating as a tight community, be it a family, a study group at school, a workplace team, a social class, an ethnic minority, or the population of an entire continent.”
(Kutszegi Csaba, Színház)

A Play-Ground with music and dance with creative input from all the participating performers, hosted by the Budapest Autumn Festival.

Directed by: Réka Szabó
Performers: Ákos Dózsa, Rita Góbi, István Gőz, Kata Kántor, László Kövesdi, Dániel Szász, Zsófia Tamara Vadas
Music: András Keleti, Albert Márkos
Costume: Enikő Bodnár
Lights: Attila Szirtes
Adaptation: Krisztián Peer
Special thanks: Zsolt Farkas