Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices
Prah, Prime Location, Sunday Lunch, The Dead Man, The Bat
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 8 February 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350370722
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x156x20 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English 494
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Long description:
A unique collection of five contemporary plays from 21st-century Hungary, translated into English for the first time.
Written by some of Hungary's most highly prolific and commercially successful dramatic voices, these plays are being produced in their native Hungary by theatres that do not adhere to Viktor Orbï¿1⁄2n's values and offer a counterpoint to the commercial Boulevard Theatre scene of Budapest.
Translator and theatre-maker Szilvi Naray champions these unheard voices through her performable and dramatically engaging translations. The plays are aimed at micro-budget productions and offer a special opportunity for students and small theatre companies alike to engage with these witty, politically irreverent plays, finally in English.
Each of the selected playwrights has been in direct conflict with the Hungarian government and has been demonised by the state-controlled press. The five plays are thematically threaded together by their common use of strong leading female protagonists with an overarching theme of the family unit. Through the edited introduction the themes and feminine translation strategy discusses how the plays offer a microcosmic lens for understanding the paradox that today's Hungary exemplifies, making this a necessary study into the world of contemporary Hungary through drama.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: 'Difficult Women' and Resistance
Playwright's Biographies
The Plays
Prah by Gyï¿1⁄2rgy Spirï¿1⁄2
Prime Location by Gyï¿1⁄2rgy Spirï¿1⁄2
Sunday Lunch by Jï¿1⁄2nos Hï¿1⁄2y
The Dead Man by Jï¿1⁄2nos Hï¿1⁄2y
The Bat by Krisztina Tï¿1⁄2th
