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Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices - Prah, Prime Location, The Dead Man, Sunday Lunch, The Bat
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Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices - Prah, Prime Location, The Dead Man, Sunday Lunch, The Bat
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections
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A unique collection of five contemporary plays from the 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 Orbán's values and offer a counter point to the commercial
Boulevard Theatre scene of Budapest. Translator and theatre maker
Szilvi Naray-Davey 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.
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