Asztalizene

The play is set at White Box, an elegant off-white restaurant in Buda, in the middle of the 2000s. Its characters are nine narcissistic men and women in their thirties and forties, looking for something to hold on to in one another, in their work, in art or in money. Győző, the owner, gathers them around him as employer, friend, husband, lover or host, and only slowly realises that in the web of relationships where he has given himself the lead, the others see him as a minor character. The opera singer Delfin seems to have come between the surgeon Kálmán and his wife Alma, a lawyer; every man stops with her for a while, then looks down on her, and she is carrying a child that is Győző's or Kálmán's.

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About the book

Form

Drama

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 2000s

First published

2007 by Színház

Author's age

37 when first published