The Hungarian independent company Proton Theatre was founded by the film and theatre director Kornél Mundruczó and theatre producer Dóra Büki back in 2009. During these years their performances have been touring to more than 130 festivals and received several awards. Their latest premier, PARALLAX was one of the highlights of Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien 2024. Working with Hungarian actors and technicians, producing their shows in Hungary via international co-productions. Proton Theatre can not count on any funding in Hungary under the current government, they are left to bleed out as a consequence of the current Hungarian cultural politics. Existing is their act of resistance.

After Vienna, Berlin, Athens, Hamburg, Geneva, Paris, Milan and Strasbourg the next stop for PARALLAX will be the Internationale Maifestspiele 2025 at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in Germany.

"Three generations of one family. One small flat in Budapest. The grandmother is declining to accept a medal of honour as a Holocaust survivor; the daughter needs proof of her Jewish identity to secure a school place for her son in their new home in Berlin; the adult son is seeking out his own identity as a homosexual man. They all have the same questions: can we liberate ourselves from inherited identity ascriptions? When is identity a privilege, when is it a burden? It all depends on the point of view. With PARALLAX (the term describes the apparent change in the position of an object at different angles of view) the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó and his independent company Proton Theater develop an epic family tale and in doing so draw a deeply touching picture of conventions situated between Eastern European Judaism and the LGBT+ community who are enduring innumerable restrictions in Hungary." (Carmen Hornbostel, dramaturg, Wiener Festwochen)