Szilvi Naray-Davey will be launching her new book Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices (Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama) at the Digital Performance Lab at the University of Salford’s campus at MediaCityUK on Thursday 7th March at 6:30pm.
The book is a unique collection of five translated contemporary plays (extracts from which will be performed at the launch) offering a microcosmic lens for understanding the contradictions of today’s Hungary. Together, the plays share stories of powerful women and explore what it means to be a family unit, all the while pushing against Hungary’s dominant ideologies.
The event will feature Szilvi’s theatre company Ignition Stage, which aims to present different cultures via translated contemporary drama from central and Eastern European nations. Ignition Stage wishes to contribute to bridging the gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’, by demystifying the idea of foreign plays and, therefore, foreign cultures.
To find out more about the book, please see the publisher’s website here.
To book your free ticket for the launch, see here.