On a Budapest stage this month, a one-woman play drawn from Kati Marton's memoir about authoritarian rule made its Hungarian debut — an arrival that would have seemed improbable under the stricter cultural governance of recent years. The production, rooted in one family's experience of political repression, asks what it costs a society to live under concentrated power, and its very presence in Hungary's capital raises a question older than any single government: when does the space for honest expression begin to reopen, and what does that reopening mean?
Budapest Play on Authoritarianism Signals Cultural Shift in Hungary
Politics & Governance