"Without them, there would be no theatre..." This thought inspired our interview series, in which we take a twist on the audience experience.

► First, we caught up with our theatre's technical director, András Éltető. 

𝐏: How long have you been involved in the Proton Theatre?
𝐀: Since the beginning. I don't know when that was, I'm very bad at years. :) My first work with Kornél at the Cave Hospital was the Nibelung Residency. It was not a Proton performance, but a Krétakör performance.

𝐏: Which is your favourite, most important Proton performance and why?
𝐀: All performances are equally important and dear to me. The most special performances are those that take place in non-theatrical spaces: the Nibelung Residency in the Cave Hospital or the now closed Lipót, the Hard to be a God on two tractor-trailers in a submarine repair hangar in France, and I could go on and on with the most exciting and exciting venues.

𝐏: 'When everything goes wrong' - Technical difficulties are almost always there, but were there any that were really memorable for you?
𝐀: There can be technical problems in all Proton performances, as they are not technically simple performances. I don't remember any huge technical glitches that compromised the performance. Once a performance of a foreign guest play was interrupted by a failure of the local subtitling system. I wasn't there personally, and our technicians couldn't help it, as the local system was not working, but it was a very unpleasant feeling even from a distance.