I am Your
I am Your
a modern revue
I am Your – Your what? Your who? Your Lord and Creator. Your director,
your father, your lover. I do not remember who I am. And You are my queen.
My Lord and Commander. My son, poor you. My deadly disease, poor me. My
homeland, poor thing. I remember.
In 2008, in a drama tender to honor the “Year of the Bible,” the National
Theatre commissioned ten Hungarian authors to write new plays inspired by
the ten commandments, eight of which ended up as significant new work. Following
the premiere of Pál Závada’s Hungarian Feast in December 2010, Péter
Esterházy’s play based on the First Commandment will be the next one to open
at the end of February 2011.
“I am the Lord, your God.
Give praise to your Lord and God,
and have no other gods before Me.”
The author portrays the Lord both in the Biblical sense and in Imre Madách’s
understanding, but most of all as a middle-aged man battling his self-contradictions
and struggling with the difficulties of creation, tinkering with genesis and
loudly ruminating on death. Through his enchanting use of language, Esterházy
showcases his unfettered and philosophical irony, his sage humor, and his
playful “socializing” spirit.
“What is God without Man? The absolute form of absolute boredom. What
is Man without God? An innocuous brand of pure, manifest insanity.” – P. E.
a modern revue
I am Your – Your what? Your who? Your Lord and Creator. Your director,
your father, your lover. I do not remember who I am. And You are my queen.
My Lord and Commander. My son, poor you. My deadly disease, poor me. My
homeland, poor thing. I remember.
In 2008, in a drama tender to honor the “Year of the Bible,” the National
Theatre commissioned ten Hungarian authors to write new plays inspired by
the ten commandments, eight of which ended up as significant new work. Following
the premiere of Pál Závada’s Hungarian Feast in December 2010, Péter
Esterházy’s play based on the First Commandment will be the next one to open
at the end of February 2011.
“I am the Lord, your God.
Give praise to your Lord and God,
and have no other gods before Me.”
The author portrays the Lord both in the Biblical sense and in Imre Madách’s
understanding, but most of all as a middle-aged man battling his self-contradictions
and struggling with the difficulties of creation, tinkering with genesis and
loudly ruminating on death. Through his enchanting use of language, Esterházy
showcases his unfettered and philosophical irony, his sage humor, and his
playful “socializing” spirit.
“What is God without Man? The absolute form of absolute boredom. What
is Man without God? An innocuous brand of pure, manifest insanity.” – P. E.