In 2024, she will be no more than 20 years old as a young director (in 2003 she defended her bachelor’s thesis with My nameIsbjorg I am a lioness) shocks the Romanian theater group with a play presented in the director’s approach. The performance was staged in the space of the village Looney Theater from green hours, it spoke of a crisis, of a void felt by an entire generation, if not two. Young people of 20 and more than 30 years old, who were called by the endless transition to…, do not know where to take their own destinies. Stop waiting for help from others. To be on your feet, to take risks. Run. Or between two or three jobs because that was the only way he could make a living fashionable, fashionable i.e. primarily without obvious financial problems and with a company car, or looking for a place to try to get my job done i.e. workstreet, mandatory work cool because they themselves posed in cool, although they were aware that they were not suitable for this, or to replace one extreme sexual experience with another. Although the partner or partners for the event were not even close their kind.

The song was called stop the pace playwright and director Giannina Carbonariou. Performers were Maria Obretin, Paula Herge and Rolando Matsangos.

Almost 20 years after the premiere, Gianina Carbonariu’s play is back on the bill. About the Theater of Romanian Playwrights. The young team made a choice in her favor. An option that means a vote of confidence. After watching the play, which, I confess, I liked from the very beginning, I was very attentive to the text. Does he have a wrinkle, is there the slightest sign, the slightest hint that he’s outgrown? In no case. Running, rush, emptiness, its artificial filling, simulacrum of authenticity, aggression, anarchy remain ways of existence and affirmation today. To the vineyard. Fashion d’emploi.

A financially secure woman who realizes that this is why she works for all kinds of morons. No sex life. Clinical case. Without the prospect of creating a family. Nice guy, oh yeah cool, with a hat that works as DJ in all kinds of second-rate clubs. Or the third. And who knows that he will never be alone DJ pruning An angry young woman in a jacket with chains, who declared her belonging to the LGBT community. They meet by chance in a club. They have nothing in common, but for lack of anything better, they try. The undeclared follows mThis isSuddenly to trois They see each other by inertia. First-hand needs. At the end of such an adventure, an accident occurs, as a result of which the boy loses his hearing. Does this mean the end? In no case! Pick up the pace! visiting clubs, Apollo or CONTROL or any other, it becomes a real job. Purpose in life. Alternative existence. The independent record of the new position indicates the termination of the club’s electricity supply. An anarchic gesture. A sign of existence. Life substitute. By the way. But one evening something happens. Wrong step. Fatal accident. With two victims. Stop the pace!

This whole story is dynamic, alive, energetic and, above all, exciting, staged by director Mara Oprea on the stage of the Romanian Drama Theater. Mihaela Velicu, Silvana Mihai and Vlad Ionuc Popescu played the story beautifully without the slightest syncopation. Whose state of running, escaping from reality, ultimately even from life, is extremely potentiated by the stage movement conceived by Štefan Lupu. Nice minimalist design by Gabi Albu, good costumes thanks to Diana Nistor. And, above all, a good show. fine. And with traces in the viewer’s mind

Theater of Romanian Playwrights

STOP THE TEMP with Gianina Carbonariou

Director: Mara Opry

Decor: Gabi Alba

Suits: Diana Nistor

with: Mihaela Veliku, Silvana Mihai, Vlad Ionut Popescu

2. Night of large settlements

Fortunately, there is an invention of Mark Zuckenberg in this world. Great luck especially for theater critics. Especially for me. Because thanks to our dear Facebook I also managed to find out who Alex Gorge is. Which signs a very good dramatic text mounted on Educational and theater center “Replika”. in the excellent professional parameters of the young director Luisa Mihailescu. Oleksiy is actually Oleksandr. He was born in Botoshan and attended one of the few theater clubs there, which turned some former high school students into good stage professionals.

Alexander Gorge seriously studied drama. In London and Bucharest. Maybe that’s why his work is called that DN 83 represents, in my opinion, a true model of concentration, of speaking on stage as much as necessary, and of authenticity in dramatic situations. Nothing more, nothing less DN 83. Before us are two characters. She and He are of different ages. She is a teacher, he is a former or still a student. These two talk exactly as they should. Their words are chosen in such a way that they leave us to either understand or suspect something more. She was his high school drama teacher. He did not attract her attention in a didactic and pedagogical way. Only, under the pretext of teaching and pedagogy, she abused the student in every possible way. Apparently, he attached more importance to it. He wanted it to be better. He felt that her talent was still hidden. She called him for extra hours, some of them even at home, where she asked him to undress under the pretext of decelerating. She showed him that she was superior to him in every way, both socially and intellectually. He drove him home.

Only this time everything is different. It is he who now calls the teacher on a date, waits for her in the evening and rides (the text matrix in some places resembles the one in Autobahn), he pretends to read her texts, which actually convey the complicated relationship between them. She feels danger, wants to give up, makes many attempts to take control, to put the student in an inferior position again. He humiliates him, laughs at the boy’s texts, tells him to his face not only that he writes poorly (he also forces him to admit it), but also that he remains immature. It seems that she has won the game, that the big calculations have ended in her favor. But something is happening. Accident? Extreme revenge? anyway, stop the pace! Speech by Gianina Carbonariou. _

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