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Future reading in Fall 2006: Tristate Actors Theater, Sussex, New Jersey
(rehearsed reading), directed by Peter Ellenstein, William Inge Theatre Festival, Independence Community College, 2003
Recent Hungarian émigré Antal (“Brown”) Medve has saved up enough money to purchase a used movie camera. He has one day to film his own and his sister Katinka’s testimony about the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, and submit it as evidence to the investigating United Nations’ committee.
In the course of the day’s shooting, Katinka and Brown re-live the hope and exhilaration of the revolution, and their despair on that Sunday morning when the Russian tanks come back into Budapest. They also grapple with the difficulty of adjusting to life in the U.S. The catharsis that ensues permits them to begin again in their new country.
The play is historically accurate. It has not been professionally or otherwise produced. It is set in Carl Schurz Park, overlooking on the East River.
Download a PDF sample scene.
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