page_title: Zsolt Pozsgai
section_title: Selected plays
hierarchical_section_title: Zsolt Pozsgai / Selected plays
caption_attribution_description: English: András Stohl and Kata Szvetnyik in the movie Janus Magyar: Stohl András és Szetnyik Kata a Janus című filmben.
context_page_description: Zsolt Pozsgai is a Hungarian freelance writer, playwright, stage and film director, and film producer.
context_section_description: Pozsgai wrote his first play during the years of his mandatory military service, which was premiered 1988 in the Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg. This drama plays ten years after the demise of Hamlet and features the tragic faith of Horatio who suffers in the "suffocating embrace of power" sustained by the Norwegian Fortinbras.
  The Prophet's Waltz
  The scene is an imaginary beach: six people who declare themselves to be the one and only prophet fight for leadership, while they are waiting for the whale that would bring redemption.
  The Virgin and the Beast
  This play chronicles real events, namely the story of a homicidal maniac on APB and an innocent girl. The man’s face was deformed during action. It is a tragicomedy, one of Pozsgai's most successful creations.
  Gina and Fidel
  This is a drama which recounts how Gina Lollobrigida interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana in 1974.
  I Love You, Light
  Set in Hungary in the 11th century, this is a historical absurd drama about the prince who was blinded and his family living in exile, with six characters.
  To love until madness
  This is a musical about the life of a well-known Hungarian singer, Pál Szécsi, who died many years ago.
  Liselotte in May
  This is a comedy-drama about a young lady whose tragic efforts to find a partner imply absurdities in the process. There are two actors, with the male actor playing seven roles. A lonely woman in her thirties, Liselotte, realises that the years are passing by without a partner and she desperately tries to get herself a man by various means. Through no fault of her own, each of her prospective partners dies on the first date… To date, the play has been performed in eighteen theatres in six languages.
  Red Faust
  A historical play about one of the great figures of 20th-century Hungarian history, Archbishop József Mindszenty, with six characters.
  Black honey
  Zsuzsanna Lórántffy, a major figure of the Hungarian Reformation, is the heroine of this historical tragicomedy from the 12th century.
  Mother holle
  This is a stage adaptation of the popular tale by the Grimm brothers, with six characters.
  The young swineherd of Kecskemet
  A folk tale which premiered 12 October 2007 at Katona József Theatre in Kecskemet.
  Raid
  Set in a mid-American city today, the main characters in this crime story are ten women who were rounded up by the police in a raid at night to find out which of them murdered the infamous and detested pimp, Lopez Dial. The investigation is complicated by the fact that the murder can be pinned on most of the women, and indeed most of them admit they did it. The detective has no ordinary task among the ten women determined as hell. There are one male and ten female roles.
  Snow queen
  A musical adaptation of Andersen's tale. The music was composed by Tibor Bornai.
  The kid
  A musical based on Chaplin's film The Kid. The piece has been played in theatres around Hungary; the production in Pécs is the twelfth. The music was composed by Tibor Nagy.
  Merry madman (Mozart and Constanze)
  This play features two characters, Mozart and his wife, Constanze, whose story recounts the conflict of their passionate lives. Mozart is on his death bed, but before he breathes his last, he wishes to confess to his loyal partner Constanze all the indiscretions he has committed over the years. Constanze, however, has a riposte, relating her own affairs to him. The confessions degenerate into an awful fight between the two. The play has been performed in several theatres in Hungary and abroad. There are two roles: man and a woman.
  Janus (absurd play)
  This play features two legendary figures of Hungarian humanism and 15th-century Renaissance history: Janus Pannonius, the well-known poet, and his friend King Matthias. Before Janus Pannonius died, he organised a plot against his friend. Ever since this has puzzled Hungarian historians. The play offers one explanation that might have happened. An absurd drama with five roles, one woman and four men.
  Embers
  A stage adaptation of Sándor Márai’s internationally renowned novel (Embers) translated into twenty-two languages. 
caption: András Stohl and Kata Szvetnyik in the movie Janus
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