Mese habbal
Tall Tale

Summary/Abstract: In the drama section we publish Mese habbal (Tall Tale) by Árpád Levente Biró, a young playwright from Oradea. Biró’s text develops into a dramatic story the situation of inventing stories to cover up for unsolved tasks and speaks about the amount of imagination required to spin a yarn. The main character of the story is a rather lazy and disordered young schoolboy endowed with a powerful imagination, who offers a whole fantasy-trip to the teacher hoping to be forgiven for not doing his homework. We do not find out from the text whether the invention of the story starts at home or in the classroom, but it consequently shows us one thing: the joyful process of imagining in which the elements and the dramaturgy of the classical tale intertwine with the​ everyday reality of the character turned into hero.

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