In our reading performance series, we are presenting László Szabédi’s drama, Husband Career; the script has been in the theatre's archives for years, but has never been presented before and the play was unpublished until 2013 when it appeared in the August-September issue of Látó literary magazine.

László Szabédi (original name, László Székely) was born on May 7, 1907 in Dumbrăvioara in Transylvania to an impoverished noble family. His father was a railway officer. Szabédi studied Unitarian theology and literary history in Cluj and Strasbourg. For a time, he was a clerk in Arad, before coming to Cluj to be a theatre dramaturg. From 1931 till 1938, he was a staffer at Ellenzék, the biggest Hungarian daily in Transylvania. He withdrew from public life in 1940 to a remote village in Bărăi, where he worked as a teacher. Later he became a journalist for the Cluj publication Világosság and he was an organizer and leader of the Hungarian People’s Alliance until 1947. From 1947 until his death, he taught aesthetics at the Bolyai University of Cluj. On April 19, 1957 he committed suicide.