The Dead Man is a powerful wartime story about grief, absence, and reinvention. Originally set in rural Hungary, the University of Salford and the Consulate General of Hungary are proud to present its English language premier, translated and directed by Salford academic, theatre practitioner and artistic director of Ignition Stage Theatre company, Dr Szilvi Naray-Davey.

Katalin Novak in her inauguration speech said: Here we stand together, in the heart of Europe, in our country’s capital, in the middle of the Carpathian Basin, at the Main Square of the Nation. But we also stand united in the intent and the will – „after the decades of the twentieth century, which led to a state of moral decay” – to build a better, more beautiful, more peaceful, more prosperous and safer life for the Hungarians in the 21st century.