A group of actors disillusioned with theatre look for a new vocation. They open a sanatorium for burnout, hosting activists from Budapest.

❓ Do you feel mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted by the struggle?
❓ Disillusioned and fed up with everything?
❓ Does change seem hopeless?
➡️ Come to our open day for a glimpse into the everyday life of the Hotel of Change!

The Hotel of Change’s guests all fight—in their own fields—for a fairer, more livable, better world. But at what cost? And who are they? Heroes of our time, provocateurs, or perhaps bored fools?

Hotel of Change is a documentary performance focusing on representatives of grassroots initiatives – the engine of society – who often find themselves in the political crosshairs. The play deals with their motivations, successes, and failures. Not only do their personal stories appear; they themselves take center stage alongside the members of the company.
Through them, the Boarding House staff try to understand where hope can be found today – so that one day they, too, can return to their everyday work, the theatre, with renewed strength.

“The basic idea – a crisis of actors who cash in theatre for a boarding house, art for activism and wellness-recreation, and hope for the small change of regeneration – is an overwhelming and alarming diagnosis, a precipitation of our public life. It questions the social role of theatre while simultaneously bearing witness in its favor.” (Mária Ady, Színház)

“Director Martin Boross, if not breaking free, at least occasionally steps a little outside this narrow framework. Not by conjuring material security for creation, and he doesn’t aim to make popular theatre either; rather, he shifts the focus from form to the cause.” (Panni Puskás, Magyar Narancs)

“Hope Boarding House follows a path that is defining not only for STEREO AKT but for contemporary theatre as well, when it gives the stage to non-professionals to speak about themselves. There are examples of this branch of documentary theatre in Hungary’s independent scene, but from the outset STEREO AKT has invited civilians into its productions with an art-theatre ambition, as Rimini Protokoll does.” (Noémi Herczog, Élet és Irodalom)

In the autumn of 2022, the original format premiered in Tübingen under the title Hotel of Change, after which we performed it for half a season at the Zimmertheater Tübingen. In the second half of the 2022/2023 theatre season, we prepared and rehearsed the Hungarian version, then premiered it as Remény Panzió / Hotel of Change at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts. From the second half of the 2023/2024 season onward, the production has been presented in the Theatre Hall of the Jurányi Production Community Incubator House.