13 Days

Coward Studio

It’s 1956, the Second World War is over, the Cold War has begun and the Iron Curtain is ever tightening its grip.   The USSR  has industrialised its satellite states, whether they liked it or not, and Hungary is struggling.   As world events seem to hover on the edge of a third world war, can an honest politician extricate Hungary from it’s Soviet overlords without bloodshed?  Written before and during events in Ukraine, 13 Days shows that history is still repeating itself.  And can honesty and integrity be maintained in politics? 

This is an exciting and thoughtful play, of an oft forgotten event in post war history (it predated, for example,  the much more well known Prague Spring) : written by TTC’s own Angela Gibbins, and will be directed by Clare Cooper (winner of best production for Incident At Vichy in 2023; and the very successful Pressure in 2024).