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Refund: Fritz Karinthy

  About the playwright   Fritz Karinthy  was a Hungarian  author, playwright, poet, journalist, and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees separation concept  in his 1929 short story,  Chains  ( Láncszemek ). Karinthy remains one of the most popular Hungarian writers.   Summary   The play is about a former student of a school Wasserkopf, who demands that his tuition should be refunded because he feels his education was worthless. But eventually, he loses his fight when he is tricked by the mathematics master. The play is full of humor that deals with an extra-ordinarily ridiculous situation.   Wasserkopf is forty years old. He could not get any job and wherever he goes, people tell him that he is fit for nothing. One day he meets Leaderer and asks him about his business. He replies that he was engaged in foreign exchange and Hungarian money. Wasserkopf did not understand anything. Wasserkopf further seeks an explanation about the foreign exchange to t

A Sunny Morning : Serafin Alvarez Quintero and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero

  About the authors Serafin Alvarez Quintero and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero were Spanish dramatists. They began writing for the theatre at a young age. They were popularly known as the Golden Boys of the Madrid theatre. They collaborated in almost 200 dramas depicting the life, manners, and speech of Andalusia.   A Sunny Morning is a light romantic comedy that narrates the reunion of two lovers now in their 70s meeting at a park who in their youth were passionate lovers but torn apart by the cruelty of fate. The setting of the play is a sunny morning in Madrid, Spain on a bench in the park. Summary   A Sunny Morning is a comic play by the Quinter brothers. The play consists of two stories. It begins in the park where the hero and heroine, Gonzalo and Laura meet and are old already. They had met long back in their youth and that is revealed by flashbacks during the conversation between them. They both have the habit of visiting the park and one day they meet acciden