Martinászok polgári köntösben
Foundry Workers in Bourgeois Garb

Hungarian Production Plays, Seen Through Éva Mándi’s Work Everyday Heroes

Summary/Abstract: Éva Mándi’s play Everyday Heroes premiered in November 1949 in the Budapest Inner City Theatre. While this was the first time in the history of Hungarian theatre that a hyper-realistic iron foundry and foundry workers were presented on the stage of an urban theatre, the play and its performance still follow the beats of a pre-war society comedy both in dramaturgy and diction, even though the coda doesn’t feature the reunion and marriage of lovers, but the triumph of increased production.

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