The Rape of the Sabine Women – New Year's Eve Premiere

The premiere of our play The Rape of the Sabine Women will take place on 31 December, at 7.30, on the big stage of Szigligeti Theatre.

If you can't make it to the premiere, you will have another chance to watch the show on Friday, 2 January, at 7 pm.

Come celebrate the New Year with us!

The Rape of the Sabine Women is, at the same time, a funny slapstick comedy, and a confession about theatre, presenting its romanticism, joys and tragedies alike. A musical vaudeville, which, with its humorous scenes, has been a popular play with hoofer companies of old, and is still an ever-recurring element on today's repertoires. Dezső Kellér's Hungarian transcription takes the Vienna authors' (Franz and Paul Schönthan) actor-slapstick, and puts it into a Hungarian perspective. The vaudeville shows hoofer romanticism with an elegant irony, presenting its fussiness and its play-acting. The Hungarian version, complete with Iván Szenes's lyrics and Jenő Horváth's music, contains several well-known songs.