Hungarian National Theatre Chief Wants Explanation For Vienna Theatre’s Statement
- 21 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
Attila Vidnyánszky, the director of Budapest’s National Theatre, expects an explanation from the Vienna Burgtheater after one of its actors made a “direct political statement” in Budapest on Sunday. At the end of a performance of Tchekhov’s Seagull by the Burgtheater’s company, as part of an international theatre festival, actor Martin Reinke read out a letter voicing concern over developments affecting the state of democracy in Hungary.
The Austrian statement said that though in a democratic vote, the Hungarian people had steered the country into a “difficult situation” which was getting “further and further away from the spirit of democracy and from Europe”.
While Reinke was reading out the message, the Hungarian staff projected on a screen the names of 13 martyrs of Hungary’s 1848-49 freedom fight, executed by Austria’s authorities.
Vidnyánszky in response addressed a letter to his counterpart Karin Bergmann, saying that making direct statements to an unsuspecting audience was “lacking good taste.”
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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