After last year's highly successful premiere, the legendary Hungarian emigrant cabaret of the 1930s in London was presented on 5 May on the stage of the Liszt Institute, which has moved to a new building.
Last year, for the first time in 75 years, the Liszt Institute in London organised a performance in Soho in memory of the Hungarian artists of Budapest who conquered the British capital in the 1930s. The café humour of Budapest was brought to the British capital by well-known members of the Hungarian emigration in London, notably the composer Mátyás Seiber, the British comedian György Mikes and Pál Ignotus, who also became famous as British comedians.
Among the themes of the evenings - in addition to Hungarian and British public reflections - were patriotism, homesickness and affectionate caricatures of British society. The Hungarian Cabaret in London ceased to exist by 1945, and today only a few booklets, handmade by the authors, preserve its memory, one of which is in the Hungarian collection of the British Library and another in the private collection of Mátyás Sárközi, Kossuth Prize-winning writer. The show was created by using these brochures.
Professional collaborating partners are Monica Bohm-Duchen, Mátyás Sárközi, Julia Seiber Boyd, Robert Waterhouse, Ildikó Wollner.