Talking Walls is a multidisciplinary artistic initiative centered around a movement-based apartment theatre performance and complementary movement-based workshops. The project explores the emotional and relational trauma caused by infertility, bringing a deeply stigmatized subject into public conversation.

The performance is grounded in an extensive research process that includes consultations with psychologists and medical specialists. These professional perspectives form the foundation of the artistic creation, ensuring an authentic and emotionally truthful representation of the subject. 

The project places strong emphasis on the experience of bodily abandonment, biological determination, and physical vulnerability, using movement as the primary tool for processing and releasing trauma. Inspired by the idea that losses which cannot be expressed through words are often stored within the body, the performance approaches healing through physical expression and embodied storytelling.

The organic connection between form and content is created through the methodology of physical theatre. Since the body can simultaneously represent failure and the possibility of hope, somatic expression becomes more capable of communicating repressed emotions than spoken dialogue. For this reason, the production focuses on non-verbal signs, movement dynamics, silence, proximity, and the tension carried through eye contact and physical interaction.

Set inside intimate apartment spaces, the audience is invited not as distant spectators, but as silent witnesses to the private world of a young couple struggling with infertility and repeated emotional loss. Everyday spaces such as the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom become symbolic environments where hope, failure, repetition, and intimacy collide.

Beyond the performance itself, the project includes dramapedagogy workshops, discussions after each performance, and a roundtable with the artists and psychologist. These activities aim to create a safe and empathetic environment where affected individuals, couples, friends, and families can begin meaningful dialogue around infertility, shame, and emotional wellbeing.

By combining art, psychology, and community engagement, Talking Walls seeks to transform silence into connection and private pain into shared understanding.

The walls preserve the imprint of absence just as the body carries the weight of unspeakable loss. Within this silent, suffocatingly intimate space, we witness a couple’s struggle with themselves and each other through the language of physical theater. What happens when our bodies refuse to obey our will, and our most personal desires become our greatest failures? The performance is a ritual of isolation locked within the flesh and the cyclical loss of hope, where the viewer becomes an invisible witness to the deepest human vulnerability in the apartment theater space. 

Cast:

Dávid: Antal Örs Deli

Iringó: Balázs Bernadett-Mária

Director: Veress Csenge

Choreography: Zsombori Beáta

Assistent director: Ana Popa

Dramaturgy: Jávor András

Composer: Antal Klára