The performance is based on ten poems from the Camp Notebook written by Miklós Radnóti, murdered 80 years ago.

These masterpieces were truly written in the valley of the shadow of death. The literary work is complemented by dramatic dance and music, giving the production its multidisciplinary character.

The monodrama production, born on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Holocaust, was staged on the 115th anniversary of the birth of Miklós Radnóti and the 80th anniversary of his murder: in the production, the martyr-poet is played by the actor András Sütő, who recalls this last, fateful journey.

The Camp Notebook contains Radnóti’s last poems written in manuscript as a worker in the labour camps of Bor, which were discovered after the poet’s body was exhumed from a mass grave in Abda. Miklós Radnóti’s last ten poems are perhaps the most harrowing works of Hungarian literature, and are also period documents of dark horror.

The theatrical performance provides an opportunity to experience the tragedy in depth, to connect with the pain of persecution and vulnerability, while at the same time, through the all-conquering power of art, to shine a perhaps not so faint ray of hope out of the darkness of the era.

The performance is an expression of national memory and also a tribute to Miklós Radnóti, who died 80 years ago.

Place: National Dance Theatre Budapest,

Address: 1024 Budapest, Kis Rókus u. 16-20.