István Nánay’s latest book Open-minded Theatre was published in 2023, on the 50th anniversary of the emblematic performance of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde (Petőfi-rock), from the time when the Communist State tried to take control of the art scene. In the seventies a group of students wanted to dream up an alternate reality for their applied theatre at the Attila József University of Sciences in Szeged, under the direction of István Paál. Nánay was a critical eyewitness of this period, and in his book, through documents and performance-reconstructions, he reflects on the not only aesthetical but dispositive-critical importance of this chapter in Hungary’s history of youth theatre.