Books
The three plays collected in this volume form a trilogy. All three take place in Hungary against modern historical turning points: The Visitor from the anti-Jewish laws of 1938 to the Holocaust in 1944-1945; Distorting Mirrors from Stalin’s death in 1953 to the Revolution three years later, and Stolen Years is set on a single glorious day at the collapse of Communism in 1989. In all three the source of drama is the same human tragedy: an irredeemable conflict between vulnerable individuals and brutal authoritarian dictatorships.
Stolen Lives was published by Regent Books London and can be ordered from Daunts Books, Marylebone High Street, London, W1, or click here to order Stolen Lives.
“Lantos’s plays introduce us to a politico-personal drama of Hungary’s violent twentieth century times in a way that no other English-speaking theatre writer has.”
—Nicholas de Jongh