Tamás Ascher in Háromszék - Béla Pintér

What would have happened if Tamás Ascher had visited Transylvania sometime in the nineties to give a theatre course? What would have happened if Zoltán Bezerédi had had a second-hand Zastavá? And whether Gábor Máté would have directed The Three Sisters if, by chance, he had actually met Béla Pintér, who was only an actor at the time? No one knows. We can only find out how Béla Pintér imagined all this in 2017, and how he tells the story with the help of some members of his company and the actors of Katona.

Bezerédi:

"The year before I bought a second-hand Zastava.

I had already pulled the back door a little earlier,

But it still had a nasty dent in it,

When Thomas got in and slammed it in after him.

I later had to relock the whole back end,

But that night, the three good friends were on their way!

At that time, the only way to get to the border was by road.

We took the number four to Biharkeresztes.

I asked the Lord to bless my little Zastava,

And he, like a thunderbolt, cut in front of the Ikarus and the Pótos Ifas.

Gabor was happy. He would have liked to get out and catch a pigeon or a sparrow.

He almost liked how wildly I drove, and how recklessly I overtook.

But Tamás was just leafing through his book back there. Sighing, mumbling.

We asked him, "What are you reading, Thomas?"

The answer was this: Tovstogonov!

And then, miracle of miracles, we only had to wait forty-five minutes at the border of Artand!

Previously, one could spend ten to twelve hours here,

where the most impatient would die,

But then the nightmare seemed to end!

So the three good friends were almost reborn,

When they saw the Oradea Chemical Plant..."