Among many other good things, the post-December Romanian theater owes the great director Andrii Sherban to the re-presentation of Ibsen’s great plays in our theater circle (let’s remember the wonderful performance from Hedda Gabler from the Hungarian State Theater in Cluj-Napoca), as well as an opening for the stage of works by Swede Ingmar Bergman.

After Andrii Shcherban gave a memorable performance in the above-mentioned Theater of Screams and whispersthey followed Scenes from the weddingperformance directed by Radu Zhude at the National Theater named after Mihai Eminescu from Timisoara, i person staged in the Theater named after Odeum from Bucharest to Radu Alexandru Nika. Almost two years ago, it was the turn Autumn sonatasdramatic text taken from the script of the 1978 film of the same name. Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman starred in the film.

That the Romanian theater recently did not know how to show its gratitude to Andrii Sherban, that the story of his 1993 dismissal from the management of the Bucharest National Theater has recently taken the form of a deliberate and unconscious omission from the UNITER award nominations. or the fact that it was not selected for several consecutive editions of the FNT director’s plays is not only the fault of the blindness of the jury and curators, but also of the president of the Union. Whose guiding principle is increasingly becoming something like this Dogs bark, the caravan passes.

I thought about all this on Sunday, December 17, 2023, after watching the online broadcast Autumn sonatas. Honorable achievement of the Theater named after Nottara, directed by Alexandru Mazgarianu and actors Victoria Kocias, Laura Vasiliou, Sorina Stefanescu and Dan Bordeianu. As well as other members of the creative group. These are Ștefan Caragiu (set design), Alexandra Mâzgăreanu (costumes), Alexandru Suciu (stage music) and Daniel Klinger (light design).

Seven years later, before the final farewell, Charlotte, a famous pianist, comes to see Eva again. One of two daughters. For some time she was married to a pastor named Victor. However, Charlotte is in for a nasty surprise when she comes face to face with her second daughter. With Helena, chronically ill for many years.

After the initial shock passes, Charlotte strategically reinvents herself as a loving, generous, tender mother who has been practiced many times and knows so well that only the inexorable pressure of time, the rigors of the profession, triumphal tours and low-quality contracts interfered – it is so and so will appear However, this role does not suit Charlotte very well, and the subsequent development of events, successive revelations in her life, as well as in the lives of Eva and Helena, mean moments of failure. Failure of individuals and families. The atmosphere is heating up, the confrontation between Charlotte and Eva is becoming more and more acute, and there is only one way out of this critical situation. departure A simple act of cowardice or a natural consequence of the fact that someone who has never loved is incapable of giving it?

Eve is associated with Charlotte’s various disinclinations, disguised in the image of a great virgin, to creative and financial success. Lacks parental love, once rudely denied teenage love, marries Pastor Viktor but does so without loving him, takes responsibility for Helena’s difficult existence so she can have someone to care for, as two men have lost their only son that day. before he was 4 years old, Eva is now dealing with her own failures in confrontations with Charlotte. Showdowns, for which Viktor is the screen.

The brilliant film director Ingmar Bergman also signed several theater directors. He talks about them in his two books. magic lantern, known writing, and Image. My life is in the movies. IN Imagevolume published in 2022 in Romanian translation by the publishing house do not worryThe great artist admits that, being in the theater, he was forced to follow in the footsteps of others, he wanted the films to be his own. Perhaps it is in this matter that the decision to transfer films to the cinema, say property However, Bergman always recognized that it is the actors who drive the theater forward.

Undoubtedly, this statement was suggested by Alexander Mazgarianu, the inspired and confident director of the play from Nottara. Using the impeccable translation of the text of the play, which was translated by Monica Andronescu, Alexandru Mazgarianu gave meaning to the unsuccessful trio of Charlotte-Eva-Victor, relying, as it should, on the talent and professionalism of the actors Victoria Kochas, Laura. Vasiliu and Dan Bordeyanu. And together with Daniel Klinger, Alexandru Mazgarianu defined an original and viable formula for the character of Helena, interpreted by Sorina Stefanescu with an application and without excesses.

It is very good that in the show from Nottara Eva Laurei Vasiliou does not appear exclusively as a kind, honest, reserved person. Which definitely deserves sympathy. The woman’s way of being, her personal flaws, her outbursts of anger, convincingly played by the actress, perhaps even Eve’s failures as a wife and mother are just as strongly born from the intersection of her and Charlotte’s vinyls. Eve vinyls? Yes it is. Leading is her inability to resonate with the love, peace, understanding, humanity of Victor, perfectly concentrated in the warm, calm, refined performance of Dan Bordeyan. Viktor is a good person, at peace with himself. A character of the second rank. Accompanist. The one who has resigned himself imperceptibly accepts such a condition.

Charlotte, the black man in the play, has a very good performer in Victoria Kocias. Her game is very close to perfect. The pantomime enthusiasm of the reunion, the despair in the face of an unwanted meeting with the spoiled daughter, the financial calculations that are never forgotten, even when it comes to gifts, the multifaceted selfishness and morbid selfishness of the character, the fierce instinct of self-defense and self-preservation, the reaction to the interpretation of Eva’s scores to Chopin, her attempts to beg for understanding, reprieve, but not true forgiveness from Eva, are the strengths of the actress. Finally, Sorina Stefanescu convinces both in the appearance through the video camera and in live broadcast. The role of the actress is small, the evolution is restrained. – Read the entire article and comment on contributors.ro