24 October | 21:00
“I. L. Caragiale” National Theatre, Studio Hall
Pirandello Café starts from the dramatic script written by Anca Măniuțiu, structured on two plays that belong to the playwright Luigi Pirandello: The Man with the Flower in His Mouth and The Mountain Giants, which contains in its intertext entwining disparate lines from Six Characters in Search for an Author and Tonight We Improvise. Pirandellian characters, spectrally designed in an abandoned late-night coffee shop, located – not unintentionally – close to the railway station, meet and unleash an absurd world, where the boundary between dream and reality becomes fluid. In this ghostly frame, a group of circus artists infiltrates, stimulating the atmosphere and giving the performance a comic touch. In a world governed by dream, word plays a secondary role, while music and, above all, the choreographic language assume its illustrative dimension.
INFORMAȚII
“The performance tries to catch a hallucinatory, fantastic world governed by the oneiric, where the boundary between reality and dream (or nightmare) is extremely fragile. In conceiving the script, I started from Pirandello`s obsessions, expressed in all of his dramatic writings. These refer to versatile, difficult to quantify ratios, between theatre and life, to the impossibility of setting life – as a constant, unbridled flow – into the conventional patterns and our social masks (or in the well-defined identity of some characters). Therefore the questioning of our own psycho-emotional identity and of reality itself, which slips from our grasp. Therefore, the vague psychological consistency of the characters and their fundamental inadequacy to reality. Pirandello Café is the materialization of an emblematic metaphor and of an ancient theatrical leitmotif: life is a dream.” (Anca Măniuțiu)
Dramatic script by Anca Măniuțiu
Cast:
CHARACTERS OF THE CAFETERIA
The Man with a flower in his mouth: Șerban Borda
The tired customer: Sebastian Lupu
Woman in grey: Denisa Vlad
The Pimp: George Voinese
Momó, the absinthe drinker : Emil Sauciuc
Prostitutes: Georgia Căprărin, Adela Lazăr, Alina Leonte
The refined prostitute: Angela Tanko
The fallen actress: Gabriela Codrea
The pale girl: Anda Tămășanu
The lost woman: Mirela Lupu
Momó’s attendant : Petre Ghimbășan
A senile old man: Ion Ruscuț
THE CIRCUS
The Circus Manager: Richard Balint
Musical Clown: Andrian Locovei
Clowns: Răzvan Vicoveanu, Alexandru Rusu, Eugen Neag, George
Dometi, Pavel Sîrghi, Ciprian Ciuciu
The Clown-Bride: Consuela Egyed
The Clown-Groom: Sorin Ionescu
Directed by: Mihai Măniuțiu
Sets: Adrian Damian
Costumes: Luiza Enescu
Choreography: Andrea Gavriliu
Original Score: Mihai Dobre
Light Design: Lucian Moga
Duration: 1 h 20 min (no intermission)
“Regina Maria” Theatre, Oradea
