
Chickenhead
Drama
Overview
It is a tragedy, set among low-lifes on the outskirts of Budapest. Dramatic Exchange describes it as "Widely considered to be the most important Hungarian play of the last 20 years". The odd title of the play refers in the first instance to the chicken heads that an old woman feeds to her cat. However, it can also be taken to refer more broadly to the obtuse behaviour of the main characters in the play. The play is an odd mixture of pathos and nihilism, written against the bleak background of Stalinist totalitarianism from which Hungary was emerging. As with much modern drama, there is no hero in the play. The only noble behaviour that one can find belongs to one of the characters in the past, when he was a child, but he is no longer as he was. The hint that what once existed might be achieved again is the only faint ray of hope in a very bleak view of the human condition.
Top Cast


Hilda Gobbi
Hilda Gobbi
Vénasszony
Hilda Gobbi
Vénasszony
Zoltán Papp
Zoltán Papp
Tanár
Zoltán Papp
Tanár


Erika Bodnár
Erika Bodnár
Nő
Erika Bodnár
Nő


Vajda László
Vajda László
Apa
Vajda László
Apa
Zoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga
Srác
Zoltán Varga
Srác


Vilmos Vajdai
Vilmos Vajdai
Haver
Vilmos Vajdai
Haver


Dénes Ujlaki
Dénes Ujlaki
Törzs
Dénes Ujlaki
Törzs


Károly Eperjes
Károly Eperjes
Közeg
Károly Eperjes
Közeg


Mária Ronyecz
Mária Ronyecz
Előadónő
Mária Ronyecz
Előadónő
Ágnes Zsíros
Ágnes Zsíros
Csitri
Ágnes Zsíros
Csitri
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