„Tetszett a dolgozóknak”. Felnőttelőadások az ötvenes években a nagyváradi Állami Bábszínházban
The Workers Liked Them”. The State Puppet Theatre’s Performances for the Grown-Up Audiences in the Fifties

Summary/Abstract: In the Eastern-Europe of the nineteen-fifties puppet theatre had a renaissance. Árpád Levente Biró’study focuses on the ways in which the artists of the puppet theatre in Oradea created unique forms and a new aesthetics in spite of ideological constraints: the performances for grown-up audiences had great success, according to the newspaper of the era “the workers liked them”. Ildikó Kovács and Pál Fux experimented on the narrow line between realistic and expressionistic styles with puppet-comedy, puppet-opera and​ romantic horror shows.

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