Rémusz Szikszai

Actor, director

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 27th February 1969

Address: Hungary, Budapest, 1056 Szerb u. 8. 1/4

Phone: +36- 70 -576-0774

Email: szellemkutya777@gmail.com

Web: www.szinhaz.hu/szikszairemusz

Rémusz Szikszai, actor and director founder of the Vádli Occasional Theatre Company

He was born in 1969 in Romania. Education and training:

1990-1994 - „Szentgyörgyi István” University of Theatre, Film and Television – Theatre

Departement – Tárgu-Mures (Marosvásárhely), Romania . He has been awarded with the

UNITER prise „Best acting co-work”for the play „Tom Paine”. In 1994 he started to work as

actor in the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj in Romania. In 1997 he has been called to Hungary

and became one of the founding members of Bárka Theatre Budapest. In 2005 he has been

awarded with the "Best acting co-work" at the International Festival in Calisia, Poland for the

role he played in The Party by Mrozek (Bárka Theatre). His first theatre directing

was Caligula's Governor by Jànos Székely in 2011 and since then his list of credits as theatre

director includes 10 performances.

Plays he directed:

János Székely: Caligula’s Governor, VÁDLI Theatre Company, 2011.

Bulgakov: Molière (Intrigue of hypocrites), VÁDLI Theatre Company, 2012.

Béla Pintér –Benedek Darvas: Peasantopera, Temesvári Csiky Gergely Theatre, 2013.

Shaffer: Amadeus, Belvárosi Theatre, 2014.

Paul Foster: I. Erzsébet, VÁDLI Theatre Company, 2013.

Ernő Szép: May and The Directror (two one act plays) – Dunaújvárosi Bartók Theatre, 2014

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, VÁDLI Theatre Company 2014.

Moliere: Tartuffe – Tatabányai Jászai Mari Theatre– 2015

Ernő Szép: The Smell of Humans, VÁDLI Theatre Company, 2015.

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Debreceni Csokonai Theatre, 2016.

Martin Mcdonagh: Pillowman, Radnóti Theatre, 2016

Csaba Székely: Dog-Bite, VÁDLI Theatre Company, 2016

György Spiró : Imposztor, – Tatabányai Jászai Mari Theatre, 2016.

Attila Bartis: Direction, Víg Theatre, 2017.

Ernő Szép: Bridegroom – National Theatre Kecskemét 2017

Work Experience

2011- founder of the VADLI OccasionalTheater Company

2005 - Free-lance

1997-2005 - member of the Barka Theater – Budapest

1997- founder of the Barka Theater – Budapest

1994-1997 - member of the Hungarian State Theatre Cluj Napoca

Education and training

1990-1994 - „Szentgyörgyi István” University of Theatre, Film and Television –

Theatre Departement – Marosvásárhely, Romania

1983 - 1987 - Liceul Industrial Nr.1 Carei, Highschool, section Mathematics –

Physics

Important Directors: Jiri Menzel, Vlad Mugur, Catalina Buzoianu, Tim Caroll, Victor Ioan Frunzá,

Tompa Gábor

Director:

Székely János: Caligula helytartója, 2011 - nominated to theatre critic award

Bulgakov: The Cabal of Bigotts, 2012

Pintér Béla – Darvas Benedek: Parasztopera, 2013 – festival of Kisvárda

Paul Foster: Elisabeth the I., 2013 – nominated to theatre awards,

Szép Ernő: Május, 2014

Stoppard: Rosancrantz and Guildernstein are dead, 2014

Shaffer: Amadeus, 2014

Actor: Ganeymed goes europe - wenn es soweit ist

P. Blake: Roman Vacation – Erwing Radovich

R. Crane: Brothers Karamazov– Dimitrij

T. Middleton – W. Rowley: Metamorphoses - De Flores

Steinbeck: East of Eden – Will Hamilton

Michael Frayn: Noises off - Roger Lillicap (Gerry)

Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht: The Beggar's Opera - Tigris Brown

Mrozek: The Party - B lad

Goldoni – Mohácsi: The Coffee Shop– Don Eugenio

Moliére: Tartuffe – Tartuffe

W. Shakespeare: Romeo and Julia – Pater Lorenzo

W. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream – Lysander

A.P. Csehov: Three sisters – Andrej

Urs Widmer: Top Dogs – Bihler

Gombrowicz: Operett - Professor

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi –Antonio

H. Pinter: Homecoming – Joey

L. Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of An Author – The Boy

W. Shakespeare: Romeo and Julia – Tybalt

M. Maeterlinck: Pelléas és Mélisande - Little Yniold

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The blind – Palamedes

P. Oswald: Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards - Yoshitsugu

Csehov: Ivanov – Dr.Lvov

Foster: Tom Paine – Town Crier

Stoppard: Rosencrantz és Guildenstern – Alfréd

Goldoni: The Two Venetian Twins – Segnior Pancratio

Hungarian Plays:

Déry Tibor: Szerelem – Főkapitány

Heltai Jenő: Naftalin - Dr. Szakolczay Bálint

Závada Pál: Jadviga’s pillow - Miki, Captain Gyurkovics, Kurilla

Tasnádi István: Finito - Pál, celebrity

Fráter Zoltán: Hát hogy szeret maga engem - Krúdy

Parti Nagy Lajos: A pecsenyehattyú és más mesék

Tenkes kapitánya - báró Eberstein Eckbert ezredes

Forgách András: A kulcs (kortárs komédia) – Öcs

Sárosi István: Gyilkos etüdök – Halál Á-dúrban, két szólamra, hat hangszerre

Rejtő Jenő: Csontbrigád - Sirone kapitány

Rudyard Kipling - Csergoffy Judit - Deák Tamás: Dzsungel – Ká

Kárpáti Péter: Díszelőadás – Becsirovics

Tasnádi István: Titanic vízirevü – Vasile

Szép Ernő: Lila ákác – Lali

Kárpáti Péter: Világvevő – Misi

Kárpáti Péter: Tótferi – Tótferi

Egressy Zoltán: Kék, kék, kék - Indigo

Spiró György: Fogadó a Nagy Kátyúhoz -Szellemfi

Film rolles and TV-series:

De ce Eu? (Why me?) director: Tudor Giurgiu, 2015

Dumapárbaj (Stand up express combat) director: Béla Paczolay, 2015

The ambassador to Bern, director: Attila Szász, 2014

Nejem, nőm, csajom, (My wife, my woman, my girl) director: Péter Szajki,

2013

Best interntions, director: Adrian Sitaru, 2011

9 and ½ dates, director: Tamás Sas, 2008

Budapest, womancity, director: Maria Vizy, 2007

7 months later, Rogozsin, director: Daniel Béres, 2005

Light’s path, director: Attila Mispál, 2005

Jóban Rosszban – Várnagy Előd, television series

Kiss Ottó: Csillagszedő Márió, 2009, tvfilm

Kikötő – cultural moderator, Duna Televízió

VÁDLI Theatre Company

(THE CALVES Theatre Company)

The VÁDLI Theatre Company was founded in 2011. That was the year when Rémusz

Szikszai theatre director invited a few of outstanding Hungarian actors for creating a theatre

project in the program of the festival Zsámbék Theatre Base, and with the same gesture

founded a temporary theatre group which doesn't operate as a permanent company but whose

members have been working together since years. The director and actor Rémusz Szikszai

created in this year the performance Caligula’s Governor. The production had big succes, it

was nominated for the best independent theatre production’s award. It was included into the

Contemporary Drama Festival’s program. Caligula's Governor won the admission of the

Hungarian theatre scene: the Hungarian Theatre Critics' Association nominated the show for

the Prize of the Best Independent Theatre Show of the Year, and it has been selected to the

program of the Contemporary Drama Festival in Budapest.

As a company VÁDLI found its real home at Szkéné Theatre, where the troupe kept on

working on further material: they opened The Cabal of Hypocrites by Bulgakov in 2012,

Elisabeth I. by Paul Foster in 2013 — which has been invited to the official program of the

National Theatre Festival POSZT and won the prize of the Best Actor in a Leading Role and

also the Best Actor in a Supporting Role — and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by

Tom Stoppard in 2014.

Reviews:

“Rémusz Szikszai cast the queen roles to men hardly for the sake of loyalty to the period, he

was rather interested in the genuine theatrical-histrionic opportunity and risk. Because what

happens if Tamás Fodor plays Elizabeth? Well, that after the initial, and invincible, chuckle it

becomes all natural.” – Judit Csáki on hvg.hu

Photos by Mészáros Csaba

“The Elizabeth I is an exceptionally well selected and a cleverly used play: Szikszai exploited

the possibilities given by the dramatic text and instructions with big precision. He addressed

almost from scene to scene their final boundaries and balanced on them while formulating his

doubts about the world and its paradoxes.

“What is successful is always just” – declares Elizabeth, the mighty queen of England. And

she must be certainly right, for several reasons straight. To start with the end, Paul Foster’s

Elizabeth I produced by the Vádli Occasional Theatre Company has achieved a poignant

success. Rémusz Szikszai’s direction was greeted with a bursting standing ovation from the

audience, and this alone could be enough to label the performance as significant, justified,

what’s more, current.” – Zsuzsanna Komjáthy on szinhaz.net

“Speaking of Rémusz Szikszai and the Vádli Occasional Theatre Company, it must be

emphasized though that the director profile of Szikszai, who coordinates a virtual, since

production-based but more or less permanent team, gets more and more pronounced: after

three important shows it is most certainly established in what and why the director is

interested in, who fortunately didn’t give up his actor career, either.” – Tamás Jászay on

revizoronline.hu

Bulgakov: Molière (Intrigue of hypocrites), VÁDLI Theatre Company,

2012

János Székely: Caligula’s Governor, VÁDLI Theatre Company,

2011

Moliere: Tartuffe – Tatabányai Jászai Mari Theatre–

2015