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Ptah Theatre is an international physical theater ensemble in Hungary. They have been working together since 2010 in theater, film, educational and social programs in cooperation with different international companies and projects. The company is based in Budapest, in residency cooperation with the Cultural Association of Badacsonytomaj, a small city in west Hungary.
Agnes Domonkos (Hungary) is a performing artist and theatre pedagogue. After her MA in psychology she got her postgraduate diploma in creating theatre and performance from the Lecoq based London International School of Performing Arts. She also finished the Diploma Curriculum of the Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA), Amsterdam. In her work she is focused on the fully alive body and the space, as she is working often site-specific, based on physical expression, also using masks, the principals of Jacques Lecoq in grotesque and object theatre and poetic storytelling. She has worked witn the London based company Relax Your Face as a co-funder, deviser and performer; She was artistic director of Mobi teatr Labor in Budapest, has collaborated with Companie Philipp Genty from France, directed at Sapta Theater from Zürich was a movement director at EQUINOXE cross cultural project. (FR)and performer and pedagogue at Utcaszak Street theatre Community from Budapest. Agnes has been working as a theater/movement pedagoque and trainer with the following companies: „EUROMOB” by the Euroculture en Pays Gentaine, FR; Merlin Theatre, Budapest; ; Szív Kamara Studio Theatre, Budapest; UTCASZAK Street Theatre Community, Budapest; Accor Pannonia Hotels Zrt, Budapest; "EXCEPT" Exchange of Community-engaged Performing Arts Practices, Budapest; RS9 Theatre Budapest; Maluma&Takete Contemporary Dance Centre, Kiev; Les Kurbas Centre, Kiev, UA; International Conference of Art Therapy, Kiev, UA; Tűzraktér Cultural Centre, Budapest, HU; Performers House, Silkeborg, DK. Mykola Bondarchuk (Ukraine) is a performing artist, TV and Cinema Director. He studied at the Kiev State University of Theatre Cinema and Television and got his Masters degree in TV and Cinema Directing. He trained as an actor at Theatre Black Square and “Dah” Theatre (Kiev) and then completed his theatre studies at the Moving Academy for Performing Arts’( MAPA, Amsterdam) Diploma Program. As a cinema director his creation is focused on short documentaries and experimental researches of time and space. In his work he prefers to combine visual art and theatre, as a director and performer as well. Mykola has worked as a performer at Dah Theater and at Black Square Theatre in Kiev, Collaborated with Mobil Teatr Labor, Utcaszak Street Theatre Community in Budapest and Philipp Genty Company (FR), SAPTA Theater (CH). creating and performing In their creation they focus on the physicality and visuality in poetic storytelling, grotesque comedy, clown sketches, object theatre; working often site-specific or using masks and projection. They like to bring performances to the public: people who unable to go to theatre or have prejudices about it can experience little glimpses of magic in their home enviroment. Their aim is to attract children and adult audience as well with the visual quality, humour and interactive action. cooperating They find it important to keep on learning, training, sharing knowledge with other colleges, so they are invited and invite experts to their projects. They cooperate with MAPA Amsterdam, SAPTA Theatre Zürich, UTCA SZAK Budapest, Philipp Genty Company Paris, CEU-Center of Arts and Culture Budapest, Les Kurbas Centre Kiev, Szív Kamara Theater Budapest, Merlin Theater Budapest, Black Box International Theater and Dance Festival Plovdiv, Walley of Arts Budapest, AusTrio, Wiena, Night of Museums Budapest, "Budapest 100" and other artists, teachers and festivals. teaching They do regular courses and short workshops for different ages and social backgrounds -Dramatic storytelling and film making- for children in underprivileged areas and primary and secondary schools supported by Norvegian Fund, where they won special price for "authentic storytelling" at The Hungarian Student Theater Festival '15 -Movement and Theater for adults based on the method of Jacques Lecoq -Mask work -Site-specific creation Previous Projects Theatre: Backwards – Budapest/Kiev, Les Kurbas Centre, Kiev; CEU Centre of Arts and Culture, Budapest, „100 years old Houses” Festival, Budapest Gagarins Daughters- Merlin Theatre Budapest; „Black Box” International Dance and Theatre Festival, Plovdiv Forgotten Sketches- „Night of Museums”, Badacsonytomaj; „Walley of Arts” Festival, Kapolcs; Szakácsi Birds Never Sleep- Badacsonytomaj/Haarlem Cooperations: „Ion and Fuccs” – Odeon Cinema, Budapest, Sziget festival, Budapest Hypnosis- International Hypnosis Conference, Budapest Gulliver in Kazohínia- with UtcaSZak, Iskola, Budapest, Schools in villages with poverty in East Hungary, Vidor festival,Nyíregyháza; DunapART festival, Budapest Let’s Continue! Utca Szak, Ozora Festival, Hungary Escaping Memories- Philipp Genty Company, Barka Theatre, Budapest Ohne Bein mit Socken, SAPTA Theatre, Zürich, Tojo Theatre, Bern Falling Stripes- „Mime Wawe”- MAPA, Les Kurbas Centre, Kiev Films: Just Give it to me- videoclip LUMA White Water- Pannonfíling Short Film Festival, Veszprém short film Charlie and Berta- short film Where two or Three- Documentary movie PRESS: http://szinhaz.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59443:a-madarak-nem-alszanak-fizikai-szinhaz-a-ceu-ban&catid=2:budapest&Itemid=52 http://www.criticailapok.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38371:fehernem-&catid=25:2012 http://szinhaz.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38428:arckiralynk&catid=2:budapest&Itemid=52 
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