"I SHALL NEVER RETURN" – t. kantor said in 1988.

To prove his statement, he chose theatre as a mode of expression. He created a performance which explained to its audience that:
I am still here and / you still exist and / you are watching this
I no longer exist and / you are neither here and / you are watching this
The two statements are at first sight contradictory, the simultaneous "meaning" is knotted together by saying "you are watching this" as well as by the living and dead puppets of the performance, the living and dead memories, the living and dead actors, the living and dead kantor, the director and the living theatre.

The statement "I SHALL NEVER RETURN" is true because the performance was its existing refutation, and it is incredible because the only way is indeed just as it happened during the performance.
Because this is the nature of truth.

It has one face – clearly visible.



József Balog,

THEALTER Artistic Director