The play, called Nyugat 2008-1908, will draw on the work of Endre Ady, Árpád Tóth, Ignotus, Mihály Babits, Zsigmond Móricz, Ernő Osvát, Géza Csáth and Béla Bartók published in the journal, as well as excerpts from the memoirs of Milán Füst, Lőrinc Szabó, Géza Ottlik, Miklós Radnóti, and Endre Andor Gelléri.
The Örkény Theatre will bring the play to the Palace of Arts' Festival Theatre on February 14 and 15 at 19:00. The play was put together by Pál Réz and Szabolcs Várady and directed by Pál Mácsai. The actors are Anikó Für, László Gálffi, Judit Pogány and Tamás Végvári. Stage design is by Csörsz Khell and costumes by Lili Izsák.
Founded by the poet and critic Ignotus, the political and economic journalist Miksa Fenyő and the critic Ernő Osvát, Nyugat (West) was the most important of Hungary's literary journals from 1908 until 1941. Its aim was to elevate Hungarian literature to the same level as Western literature. The journal also backed progressive politics and culture.
Nyugat published Hungary's youngest writers as well established authors. Among the older generation appearing in its pages were Endre Ady, Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Árpád Tóth, Frigyes Karinthy, Margit Kaffka, Zsigmond Móricz and Géza Csáth. The generation appearing in the 1920s included Lőrinc Szabó, László Németh, Áron Tamási and Endre Andor Gelléri. The youngest generation to be published in Nyugat boasted names such as Miklós Radnóti, Sándor Weöres, István Vas and Antal Szerb.
In 1929, Osvát committed suicide and Ignotus resigned as editor. The journal's financing dried up. Zsigmond Móricz rescued the paper with a cash injection and became its editor. Mihály Babits and Oszkár Gellért were appointed deputy editors. Because of differences over the direction of the journal, Móricz left in 1933, leaving the top editorial post to Babits.
The journal folded up after Babits's death in August 1941.
Source: www.fidelio.hu / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
