Compiled by Pál Réz, Szabolcs Várady Sets: Csörsz Khell Costume: Lili Izsák Music: Ferenc Darvas Dramaturg: Szandra Boskovics Director: Pál Mácsai “For us Hungarians Nyugat was the greatest intellectual and spiritual renewal following the Reform era. […] We should not forget that István Tisza, the highly respected prime minister who was by no means a stupid man, stated that: »Ady and the Nyugat were the aphids upon the palm tree of Hungarian culture!« The aphids have survived Tisza’s pal...m tree, we have nothing else left from the economic and political greatness of the country than their unquestionable greatness. If someone cannot appreciate that we cannot squander their greatness, well that’s their problem.” (Géza Ottlik) A hundred years ago, the first volume of the journal Nyugat (“Occident”) was published. Let us just try to appreciate what it really meant. Many have tried in their different ways. Theatre – and in particular the Örkény Theatre – does not aim to appreciate or to analyse, nor to direct a literary evening of works first published in Nyugat. Instead it is seeking a theatrical experience and drama – without a dramatist. In verse, short stories, columns, reviews, diaries and letters – to recreate the passion which made Nyugat and about which Ottlik said “…it was a conspiracy of arch-angels over the heads of the world. These giants supported each other through thick and thin, raising above everyone and everything, including the contradictions between each other which cannot be grasped by the man in the street”.
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