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A New Play in Budapest Signals a Cultural Reawakening for Hungary

A one-woman show about the perils of authoritarianism draws on a memoir by the Hungarian-American writer Kati Marton. Under Viktor Orban’s government, it might not have happened.

17 September 2026Live

Sources

The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/europe/play-budapest-culture-hungary.html

A one-woman show about the perils of authoritarianism draws on a memoir by the Hungarian-American writer Kati Marton. Under Viktor Orban’s government, it might not have happened.

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