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Politics● LowSep 17 · Sep 17, 2026, 10:23 AM

A New Play in Budapest Signals a Cultural Reawakening for Hungary

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from NYT World · Eastern Europe

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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