Overview
Character Name
Hunyak (Katalin Helinszki)
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Featured
Dramatic Function
Foil, Narrator/Chorus
Relationships
Dancing
Dancer
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Chicago, late 1920s
Analysis
Katalin Helinszki (called Hunyak, a derogatory term for a Hungarian person, by everyone around her) is a prisoner in the Cook County Jail, where she has been accused of her husband’s murder. She speaks no English, except for the phrase “not guilty.” The Hunyak was accused
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