The upcoming production is the stage adaptation of Lajos Jánossy's novel "Eternal Place and Time Everywhere", published in 2023, which the author prepared in close collaboration with the director of the performance, Gábor Máté. In this uniquely toned play, where narration alternates with traditional scenes, we follow the life of the protagonist, Andris Pálfy, from his kindergarden years to his college years — and the last twenty years of the Kádár regime. The tableau, composed of portraits of parents, relatives, friends, lovers, and role models, reveals the mood of the years and decades leading up to the regime change and the general feelings of those living in it. Characteristic places and life paths; survival and success strategies, different ways of seeking freedom and compromising.

The characters in the play are typical figures of the era, familiar faces of everyday socialism. Andris and his parents belong to an intellectual, middle-class family; after '89, the doctor parents do not continue on the path that their family situation seemingly set for them. Andris searches for his own path, rebels against the place assigned to him by the system, while also trying to meet his family's expectations, and in reality, he is going nowhere; his story is one of coming of age, which remains unfinished in the year of the regime change. Lajos Jánossy's text evocatively recalls an era, the socialism of the Kádár period, and its stifling atmosphere.