performed by:
Kuncz: Roszik Hella
Törő: Szamosi Zsófia
Bodolay: Thuróczy Szabolcs
Hoffman: Friedenthal Zoltán
Mr. Freeman: Pintér Béla
Mr. Goodman: Quitt László
pianist: Kéménczy Antal
costume: Benedek Mari
assistant to the costume designer: Kiss Júlia
props: Quitt László, Kovács Dániel
scene: Tamás Gábor
lights: Vida Zoltán
sound: Gresicki Tamás
adapted by: Enyedi Éva
music: Kéménczy Antal
assistant to the director: Hajdú Rozi
financial assistant: Inhaizer Gyula
production assistant: Hidvégi Anna
written and directed by: Pintér Béla

Never To Return Again is primarily inspired by the tragic story of the Tengiz Project. In the 1980’s Hungarian workers were taken to the Baku region to explore gas fields. This was the most envied job at the time because of the high salaries that came with it. Seven or eight years later, however, seventy percent of the employees got some kind of sickness caused by radiation, and many of them died. Our story is not set in the 80’s, but today. We kept the most typical cultural topoi of the decade, embedded in socialist aesthetics: songs of the workers’ movement with lyrics that reflect upon present day reality, or the term 'comrade' when addressing each other. We did so because, though we live in a democracy governed by the rules of capitalism, the toxins of the past regime have not yet been completely burned out of our nervous system. We are inclined to welcome great leaders and accept what we are told about good or bad. But don’t worry! We won’t be talking politics, or at least that’s not what the performance revolves around. This is rather the story of the temptation of selfish, fallible people who cling to the moment they believe will never return again, only to lose their lives in the end.

”This play is an apt progress report from which you can find out at which stage of the road to total insanity and self-abdication Hungary is at the moment.” (Földes András, Index.hu)

”Instead of an anti-communist mock-play, Pintér Béla and Company’s new play reveals a disillusioned, hideous world where the past is on sale and where people sold out both their own and others' beliefs and disbeliefs.” (Molnár Gál Péter, Nol.hu)

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The guest performance was supported by: SZMJV Önkormányzata