HOPPart is an independent theatre company with a special focus in researching how to broaden the performing styles and methods of musical theatre. Members graduated from the same class in 2007 and in the same year they founded the company, which produces two or three new shows annually.

Josef’s restaurant is open to all, regardless of the political party the patrons might favour. It is not his fault that both the Republicans and the Extremists plan their night parties here, one after the other. The Republicans get wind of the danger looming over their heads, but instead of joining their efforts to fight it, they start fighting with each other, so by the time disaster knocks on the door, no one feels sorry for them. There is music throughout, love stories evolve in the havoc, marriages are ruined, in other words: life goes on.

"I wrote the play against the political mob” – says the author about the play, which is based on a mob fight that broke out between the Social Democrats and the Nazi Party in 1931 in Murnau, Bavaria.

A couple of plastic garden chairs, a TV-set, a ping-pong table with a few ugly flower pots and we empathize with the provincial restaurant’s melancholy, which we can find in any European country in this form. This is where the village gather to party. This is the plan for the „Italian night” for the Republican Party on this lukewarm summer evening.
But before that they watch a football game. The rowdy Nazis are there in the background and want to celebrate their German Day at the same venue. The owner thinks of hte profit and does away with his principles. (...)
The young Hungarian director, Csaba Polgár (whose Coriolanus and Merlin were to be seen in Germany earlier) sets Horváth’s satirical comedy in today’s Hungary.  Their democracy is fairly young, too, politics and society tend toward the right and there is no effective opposition. Polgár presents the republicans as a lazy bunch, who prefer to watch the football game to doing anything else.”

Esther Slevogt: A lazy bunch for democracy

Even though there are but a few additions referring to the present situation in Hungary, the play easily finds its way into our world. The German Day becomes the Day of National Togetherness, and one has a coorrupt kiosk deal like so many in this country who are favoured by the regime. The jokes sit well with the play, as well as with Alfons’s profile.”

Rádai Andrea, RevizorOnline, March 2014.

Performers:
Hay Anna, Kiss Diána Magdolna, Szilágyi Katalin,
Terhes Sándor, Friedenthal Zoltán, Molnár Gusztáv,
Fekete Ádám, Kákonyi Árpád, Tóth Péter
Costume and set: Lili Izsák
Dramaturgy: Ildikó Gáspár, Ádám Fekete
Music: Árpád Kákonyi 
Assistant to the director: Péter Tóth
directed by Csaba Polgár