HUNGARY WELCOMES 'DR. ZHIVAGO' PLAY
Author: Associated Press
Date: Sunday, January 10, 1988
Page: 12
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
BUDAPEST -- A stage version of Boris Pasternak's novel "Dr. Zhivago"
drew 12 minutes of curtain calls and applause at a packed theater in the east
Hungarian town of Szolnok, Hungarian radio reported yesterday.
Producer Janos Szikora described Friday night's performance in the packed
Szigligeti Theater as "a smashing success."
The novel, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 after it was
published in the West, was banned in the Soviet Union for its portrayal of
Communist society, and Pasternak was sent into internal exile.
Szikora said it was obvious that the success of the play was partly due to
the "legend surrounding the work that has grown into a myth."
The weekly newspaper Film, Theater, Music devoted two full pages
yesterday to the play's dress rehearsal and to Pasternak's drama-packed life,
which ended in 1960.
Pasternak has been rehabilitated recently in the Soviet Union, and small
excerpts from the epic novel were published in December in the Soviet magazine
Ogonyok.
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