Kolozsvári vendégjátékok és a budapesti kritika. Mátrai-Betegh Béla esete
Guest Performances from Cluj and the Budapest Critics. The Case of Béla Mátrai-Betegh

Summary/Abstract: In his article on Guest Performances from Cluj and the Budapest Critics, Tibor Pethő examines the critical reception of the plays The Palm Sunday of a Horse Dealer and Cain and Abel, performed in Budapest in the 1980s by the company of the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj-Napoca. The author focuses especially on the case of the editor Béla Mátrai-Betegh, whose allusive critical texts referencing the Ceaușescu regime in Romania started a veritable avalanche. His writings have drawn attention to the suppression of national minorities and created tensions within the Hungarian-Romanian relations, followed by debates, defences, dismissals and the retirement and tragic death of​ the theatre critic.

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