page_title: Squat Theatre
section_title: Plays
hierarchical_section_title: Squat Theatre / Plays
caption_attribution_description: English: SQUAT THEATRE PETER BERG 23RD STREET Other information: Photo was used as cover of Squat Theater book
context_page_description: Squat Theatre was a Hungarian experimental theatre company from Budapest, which left Hungary for Paris, France, and then New York City, where they built a reputation for experimental theatre.
  Originally, the Company was known as Kassák Haz Studió and was located at Uzsoki-utca 57, Budapest. For political and aesthetic reasons the Company emigrated to Paris then to the United States where they arrived in New York City first living at the Hotel Chelsea and then at 256 West 23rd Street where they lived, worked and performed from 1977 to 1985. Several members left Squat Theatre in 1985 when they lost the lease to their space on 23rd Street including Anna Koós, Péter Halász, Eric Daille, and Agnes Santha. The rest of the Company continued until 1991. Squat Theatre's last play was Full Moon Killer, 1991 and performed at The Kitchen in New York City.
  The space on 23rd Street had a large window with a street entrance, and spectators sat in the back of the store facing the storefront window and the street beyond. Events took place with the street as backdrop, with the intention of unsettling the events, the relationship among the members of the group, and the audience.
context_section_description: 1975–79 – Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
  1977 – Pig, Child, Fire!, a play in five parts.
  1978 – Andy Warhol's Last Love.
  1981 – Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free, film and live show in a storefront, 1981.
  1981 – The Battle of Sirolo. Open air version of Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free. Premiere at Polverigi Festival (Inteatro Festival, Polverigi.)
  1982 – The Golden Age of Squat Theatre. A retrospective of three Squat Theatre plays: Pig, Child, Fire!, Andy Warhol's Last Love, and Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free.
  1985–86 – Dreamland Burns. Written and directed by Stephan Balint. Sets and set design by Eva Buchmuller. Commissioned by Massachusetts Council for the Arts - New Works Grant. Performed at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.; Montreal, Munich, Zurich, Polverigi International Festival; Boston; Theatre der Welt, Frankfurt; The Kitchen, NYC; Los Angeles; Chicago; Milan Ottre Festival; Monserrato, Cagliari. 
  1985–86 – L-Train to Eldorado. Written and directed by Stephan Balint. Music by Peter Scherer and Arto Lindsay. Art and set design by Eva Buchmuller. Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Art Bureau Munich, Next Wave Festival, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Cal Performances, Berkeley, California; Hunter Playhouse, NYC; Boston, Amherst, Massachusetts; Vienna Festival; Holland Festival, the Netherlands; Theatre der Welt, Hamburg; Zurich Theatre Spektakel.
  1990–91 – Full Moon Killer. Written and directed by Stephan Balint. Art and set design by Eva Buchmuller. Performed at The Kitchen, NYC.
caption: Andy Warhol's Last Love by Squat Theatre, NYC, 1978
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