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Aug 17 2022
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German soldiers Budapest

The Hungarian Count, part seven

By Acting, Stage
Nicholas Wenckheim was tall, slim handsomely lean-faced, beautifully dressed – probably in his fifties. He spoke remarkably good English and displayed the most exquisite manners. Even when – later – I detected anger, even fury, he controlled it in a…
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Aug 11 2022
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London Taxi 1980

The Hungarian Count, part six

By Acting, Stage
So we wrote to Nicholas Wenckheim as follows: Would he go with this approach? The answer seemed to be ‘yes’. Other jurisdictions do bad things, too, he seems to concede. Also, some astonishing figures came out of this correspondence. Not…
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Jul 26 2022
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The Hungarian Count, part four

By Acting, Stage
We were at the height of the Cold War when Wenckheim was writing, so global fear of the possibility of a nuclear exchange, and the resulting effects of radiation on the surviving population, were at their most alarming. Nevertheless, what…
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Jul 21 2022
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Buenos Aires 1970s

The Hungarian Count, part three

By Acting, Stage
In September of 1975 Claudine Vattier wrote to say how pleased she was that we liked Wrangel Island; she thought it ‘intéressante’ and found the characters to be ‘chouettes' – cool. She recognised the difficulty of placing it! In passing, she…
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Jul 13 2022
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Wrangel Island

The Hungarian Count, part two

By Acting, Stage, Writing
Claudine Vattier’s French translation of Wenckheim’s play arrived. La Terre de Wrangel, she called it; Wrangel Island, in English. It’s a real place. A sizeable island belonging to Russia, about five hundred miles west from Alaska. Today, it’s known as…
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