Performances / Szigligeti Company / 2025-2026
Sándor Rideg - Géza Bereményi
The Stationmaster Meets His Match
peasant comedy
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Sándor Rideg (1903–1966) was one of the most colourful figures in 20th-century Hungarian literature. He completed only five years of elementary school, worked as a horseman, later became a factory worker in Budapest, then a railway non-commissioned officer, and a baker. Meanwhile, he was a committed leftist, a member of the leadership of the so-called Vági Party, and was imprisoned several times. This makes it easier to understand why, after the communist takeover (1948), he was considered a writer of the regime, and one of his admirers in the 1960s wrote of him: “All his works are infused with a characteristic humour coupled with a consciously socialist worldview.” His first novel, The Stationmaster Meets His Match, was published in 1943 and has been beloved ever since—not necessarily because of its “socialist” nature, but much more for its original, earthy humour, not only in novel form but also on film and stage.
Synopsis translated by: Gellért Farkas.
Cast of characters:
Zenészek:
Nagy Gábor
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