In the course of the museology work we were struck by the thought that the correspondence, diaries and biographic documents of Hungarian writers considered classic or significant should be adapted and performed in a dramatic form.

This would mean that the priceless cultural treasures in our collections could reach the general public not only in the form of text editions and exhibitions but also transformed into literary work and presented in the magic of the theatre. Since 1990 our series Poets and Muses has been staging real life dramas. The performances also to some extent fulfil a cultural mission: through them, we are shown the complex relationship between the biographic reality and the fiction of the works. While the plays reveal minute, everyday, less well-known and intimate details of the lives of our bygone writers and poets (quoting turns of phrase and vocabulary of the time taken from the above-mentioned documents), adaptation is entrusted to contemporary writers, dramatists and actors. This particular system also allows for contemporary Hungarian drama to be staged and introduced in the shortest possible time. Some of the performances have been used by Hungarian Radio, Hungarian Television and in several cases by traditional theatres as well. So in this way the Reading Stage reaches an even wider public through radio and television plays; certain plays have also been published in book form.

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