14 November | 23:30 – www.fnt.ro
The show has been available for viewing from Sunday, November 14, from 11.30 pm until Tuesday, November 16, at 11.30 pm. The translation will be embedded.
When actress Eszter Nagy is diagnosed with dementia, her son Cristi chooses to return home to take care of her. While trying to protect his mother from the misery of her condition and to preserve her public persona and artistic personality, Cristi’s own life starts to slip through his fingers. Eszter’s condition becomes a third character of their story, whom the two confront with humour and courage, but which will make them both start to doubt their idea of care, love and dignity.
Author: Cosmin Stănilă
Cast:
Eszter: Emőke Kató
Cristi: Lucian Teodor Rus
Set design: Adrian Balcău
Video: Mihai Stanciu
Light design: Cătălin Filip
Sound design: Adrian Piciorea
Reactor – A Place for Creative Experiments Cluj-Napoca
Duration: 1h 40 min
Not suitable under 14 years of age
Performance in Romanian with English subtitles
UNITER Prize for the actress in a leading role (2021)
„To witness the demise of your own consciousness seems unbearable. There are 50 million people around the world living with Alzheimer’s.Many of them have somehow made peace with their condition and have to deal with the lack of a treatment but also with social stigma. All the Things Alois Took from Me is about how we negotiate with our looming extinction.”– Cosmin Stănilă
Photo credit: Bogdan Botaș
