Classroom project

 More than 1000 students and still counting!  

 

An average Hungarian high scool student would meet the first (and last) time in his life with Jewry when he learns about the Holocaust. This creates a false picture that Jews are "just" victims of a war and not a living community with culture, tradition, who were living in Hungary long before the Holocaust and they are living here 70 years after, too. We adopted our performance Recipes for Survival into a special classroom history class project.

We created a 45 minutes long version of the play with keeping the 3 actresses, and changing the set design we can have a full show in 45 minutes, so in the first part of the class we can see the 20th century in front of our eyes in a female Jewish point of view. In the second part of the class we discuss the differences and the similarities between what we saw (personal history) and what we can read in the official educational books (official state history).

We wish to achieve with this living history class that the high school students will understand that behind the words of the schoolbook are real people. And those people are not always leaders of a nation or country or army, but everyday heroes. They are making history in kitchens, working places and livingrooms. Students have an easy way to identify themselves with the hero of the performance, who is, in our case, a Jew. This will allow the students a completely different and deeper understanding of their country and the Jewish community lives in it.

This is a free event for high schools.

In 2016 we were here: 

I. II. Rákóczi Ferenc Gimnázium
Budapest, 2016. április 12.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

II. Közgazdasági Politechnikum
Budapest, 2016. április 16.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

III. Lauder Javne Zsidó Közösségi Iskola
Budapest, 2016. április 18.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

IV. Politechnikum
Budapest, 2016. május 26.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

V. Városmajori Gimnázium
Budapest, 2016. június 3.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Neumann Péter

VI. Móra Ferenc Gimnázium
Kiskufélegyháza, 2016. szeptember 21.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

VII. Petőfi Sándor Evangélikus Gimnázium
Bonyhárd, 2016. szeptember 29.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Neumann Péter

VIII. Garay János Gimnázium
Szekszárd, 2016. október 18.,
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

IX. Novus Gimnázium
Budapest, 2016. október 20.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori

X. Chernel István Általános Iskola és Gimnázium
Agárd, 2016. október 21.
drámatanárok: Surányi Ráchel, Pál Bori