1988. június (138-158. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
^ ®m£ Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 14.8/1988 (E) 15th June, 1988 Endre Ba.i csy-Zsilinszky - Imre Nagy Memóriái Evening in the Jurta Theatre On June 15th, Wednesday evening, a common programme was organised by the Jurta Theatre Company, the Endre Baj csy-Zsilinszky Friendship Society and members of the University Theatre’s amateur company, the well-known Spring Circle. The memóriái evening was held on the 102nd anniversary of Endre Baycsy-Zsilinszky’s birth, the brave anti- fascist politician who was executed in Sopronkőhida at the end of World Bar II. His life and death were presented in speeches and readings by his friends and fellow fighters and in reminiscences of the time and piacé against a backdrop made up of art enlarged portrait of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and a national flag. The memóriái was first held by the Spring Circle two years ago - the lOOth anniversary - in the University Theatre. The two programmes were nőt the same however, On this occasion Karoly Vigh, a histórián, gave an introductory speech recalling Hungárián history’s many tragic martyrs: Lajos Batthyány, Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and Imre Nagy, the executed Prime Minister of the 1956 revolution. Their behaviour in critical national situations connects them to each other: thus they became the Hungárián nation’s great historical figures - said Károly Vigh at the beginning of the performance. The second part of the performance began with a harrowing scene, A bier covered with a black veil stood on the stage, behind it there were newspapers containing Imre Nagy’s 1956 speeches and a red-white-green flag with a hole in the centre - in piacé of the Stalinist amis - recalling the days of the revolution. The Spring Circle Company marched in carrying candles and read out poems about the victiras of the reprisals which followed 1956, works by György Faludy, Gáspár Nagy and István Eörsi. During the reading of each poem they lit a candle: six altogether, in memory of Imre Nagy, Pál Maiéter, Miklós Gimes, József Szilágyi, Géza Losonczy and Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky. Following the reading of the fifth poem the engineer Imre Mécs, who was sentenced to death after the revolution and then to life imprisonment, came on stage and gave a memóriái speech about Imre Nagy and his executed comrades. This section of the programme was ended with a poem by Gáspár Nagy after which commemorations about Bajcsy- Zsilinszky finished off the performance. It ended with the singing of "The Blessed Virgin, Our Mother" which was sung by Bajcsy-Zsilinszky*s fellow convicts when he was executed in Sopronkőhida p'rison. In the moming the Spring Circle leader and Károly Vxgh were requested to cancel the commemoration by the authorities bút the leaders of the Spring Circle, Jurta Theatre and the Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Friendship Society decided to ignore the warning. The performance was attended by 320 people, among them well-known participants in the Hungárián Democratic Fórum movement, the writer István Csurka, Sándor Lezsák and the poet Gáspár Nagy. Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged. .
