CHARACTERS : Wasserkopf The Principal The Mathematics Master The Physics Master The History Master The Geography Master The Servant The Staff Leaderer SUMMARY : The play Refund is written by Fritz Karinthy , a famous Hungarian playwright in 1938. He is known for his works You Write Like This , A Trip Around My Skull and Professor . The one-act play Refund was adopted and translated by the American playwright Percival Wilde . The Refund is an absurd and satirical play. It satirises the present-day education system, which doesn’t prepare students for their career. It is full of humour which deals with an unusual situation. The play is about a former student of a school in Hungary named Wasserkopf . In German Wasserkopf means a “Waterhead”, an eccentric/abnormal person. He is a good- for- nothing fellow who goes back to the school in which he had studied and demands a refund of the fees he had paid. He claims that he had learnt nothing at school. Wasserkopf is