“If a snake (which is rare) devours itself, is there a snake-sized void left behind?”

The man who has lost his inner compass stands in the space. Silence settles over him. A pair of eyes watches him unblinking, no longer belonging to anyone. There’s flickering movement somewhere far away, or very close. He must act. Something must happen. And then he moves. He makes noise. But after a while it’s not enough, more and more is needed, the silence always returns, constant action is needed and noise and talking, relationships and roles, production pressure, petrol fumes and big cities – until a world is built where silence is internal, a pause, and can no longer spill out into the BIG silence. All four walls are up.

Empty. is the child of a transnational scientific-artistic research, reimagined by the director for the fifth time.

The concept of the performance was inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Embers and John Cage’s 4:33.

Concept, Mise en scène: Balint Barabas Szigeti
Dramaturg: Emma Elefánti, Bence Huszerl
Performed by Katica Kozma, Bence Huszerl, Eszter Salamon, Flóra Erdélyi
Other artists: Bernát Miklós-Kovács, János Mató, Kinga Sajti, Maya Hesz

The performance will include excerpts from the works of the following authors:
Franz Kafka, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Robert Musil, Samuel Beckett, Lev Tolstoy, National Meteorological Service, Eckhart Tolle, Comte de Lautrémont, Dezső Kosztolányi, Immanuel Kant, Házipatika.hu, Voltaire, Albert Einstein, Michel de Montaigne.

The presentation was supported by:
Kelet-Nyugati Alkotóműhely, TIM Studio, Parastudio, NKA

Special thanks to:
Attila Létmányi, István Martin Tőzsér, Andor Valentiny