Adapted for stage by Kata Gyarmati and Kinga Mezei, based on Zsolt Karácsonyi’s novel The Inner Ten Thousand

I Am not Here

Reporting from The Inner Ten Thousand

Csilla Albert
Balázs Bodolai
Áron Dimény
Loránd Farkas
Enikő Györgyjakab
Andrea Kali
Róbert Kardos M.
Melinda Kántor
Gizella Kicsid
Anikó Pethő
Eszter Román
Ervin Szűcs
Lóránd Váta

concept and direction
Kinga Mezei
 
dramaturgy
Kata Gyarmati
 
set and costume design
Péter Ondraschek
 
music composed by
Szilárd Mezei
 
custom prop maker
Andra Jakab
 
director's assistant
Dorottya Képíró
 
stage manager
Réka Zongor

Date of the opening: June 06, 2026

The Old Man lives behind the Fence. He is somewhat like other old people. Sometimes he walks, writes, reads, eats… and occasionally socializes. His mind is no longer an orderly library, but rather a scratched record: it gets stuck, repeats, skips, omits, forgets. His memories slip apart, spilling into one another.

Yet deep inside, the deepest self still tries to hold on: it searches for anchors, clings to the remaining fragments of memory, to stubborn motifs that are still capable of holding together his disintegrating consciousness.

This is a unique state of existence in the here and now, where forgetting creates unexpected situations, and reality becomes fleeting on the shifting ground of overlapping layers of memory.


We would like to draw our dear audience’s attention to the fact that tickets purchased for the first row are “bold tourist” tickets, which offer access to special “bonus programmes.” All that is required is intense attention and presence, with a small amount of interaction to be expected!