Hungarian Feast drama with music in two parts
Hungarian Feast
Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy!
When I was invited by the National Theatre to participate in the special playwriting
tender thematized the Ten Commandments, I was given the third commandment
“Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy!”. I felt really lucky, on
the one hand because of my long-time interests of keeping the order of the holy
days and feasts whether we should or must obey by the calendars and traditions
to celebrate regardless of what would otherwise happen on those days, on the
other hand, this commandment has given the inspirational push to my heroine,
Janka Weiner along with her relatives and friends to step on the stage of a
drama. Moreover, the title- Hungarian Feast – was given straight away which
became the leading motive stretching through the 1940s of the Hungarian history
summarizing all that I would like to express about God, country and family-
if may I express myself this way.
How should those people celebrate the reattachment of North-Transylvania
in 1940? Would emotional strings amongst friends and lovers help to get around
in the world, to see clear and to have a choice to decide when and how should
one act? Or would it rather make it difficult? How will Gábor Palcsi, a highschool
student have a pair of trousers which he can wear during the religious
holiday feast of his school where he would sing solo?
Pál Závada
Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy!
When I was invited by the National Theatre to participate in the special playwriting
tender thematized the Ten Commandments, I was given the third commandment
“Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy!”. I felt really lucky, on
the one hand because of my long-time interests of keeping the order of the holy
days and feasts whether we should or must obey by the calendars and traditions
to celebrate regardless of what would otherwise happen on those days, on the
other hand, this commandment has given the inspirational push to my heroine,
Janka Weiner along with her relatives and friends to step on the stage of a
drama. Moreover, the title- Hungarian Feast – was given straight away which
became the leading motive stretching through the 1940s of the Hungarian history
summarizing all that I would like to express about God, country and family-
if may I express myself this way.
How should those people celebrate the reattachment of North-Transylvania
in 1940? Would emotional strings amongst friends and lovers help to get around
in the world, to see clear and to have a choice to decide when and how should
one act? Or would it rather make it difficult? How will Gábor Palcsi, a highschool
student have a pair of trousers which he can wear during the religious
holiday feast of his school where he would sing solo?
Pál Závada