Between January 2001 and June 2002 the Krétakör Company had a place of its own, the "Old Studio" of the Thália Theatre in Budapest.

The first new production there reached back to the traditions and genius loci of this place on the "Broadway of Pest": it is a "flower grown on the Budapest pavement", Ferenc Molnár's Liliom.

The cabaret and the fun-fair theatre of the 20' s-30's inspire the forms and style of the production, and we play it on the same place where once the tiny stage of the famous music hall Arizona stood.

The play, performed by a young company, is adressed not only to a young public, but to everyone longing for a bit of nostalgy and old Budapest feelings -but we also want to show the cruelty and deepness of this imperishable story.

The love between Julika, the small country servant, and Liliom, a ne'er-do-well of the town park, unfolds on the skirts of the big town, surrounded by the railway-embankment, the leather factory and the fun fair.

Prize of the City of Torun on the Kontakt International Theatre Festival, Torun, May 2001.

Zsolt Nagy received for his Liliom the Prize for the Best Actor under 30 in the Hungarian National Theatre Festival POSZT 2001.

Main Prize of the Hungarian Studio Theatres' Festival

Annamária Láng received for her Julika the Prize for the Best Actress under 30 in the Hungarian Studio Theatres' Festival.

Sándor Csányi received for his Ficsúr the "Comet Prize" of Népszabadság.