5 November| 21:00 – National Theatre, Bucharest, Pictură Hall
Love and Other Crimes is the story of a day, the big day of a woman who has lost her way among gangsters and the concrete walls of a neighborhood in the Balkans.
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By: Stefan Arsenijević–Srđjan Koljević–Bojan Vuletić
Based on the script of the homonymous movie by Stefan Arsenijević
Translated and adapted by: Krisztián Kiliti
Cast:
Milutin: Tibor Pálffy
Anica: Janka Korodi
Stanislav: Kónya-Ütő Bence
Ivana: Panna Bocsárdi, Karolina Kurkó
Mother: Zsuzsa Gajzágó
Nikola: József Kolcsár
Nikolija: Zsuzsanna Vass
Buca: Áron Beczásy
Grandma: Annamária d. Albu
Tihomir: Gábor Erdei
Marina: Hajnalka Szalma
Zoran: Dezső Derzsi
The Ex: Gellért Pignitzky
Bozana: Gyöngyi Pál Ferenczi
Tanja: Ágnes Benedek
Owner: Lóránt-László Márton
Miki: Zsolt Fekete
Radovan: László Szakács
The Kid: Kristóf Nagy-Kopeczky
Neighbor / Sister: Mária Fekete
Gong Yang: Panna Bocsárdi, Karolina Kurkó
Elderly gentleman: Levente Nemes
The Boys: Géza Csortán, Magor Prázsmári, Mátyás Hubbes, Péter Kiss, Mátyás Sándor
Directed by: Theodor-Cristian Popescu
Set design: Mihai Păcurar
Original music and sound design: Andrei Raicu
Light design: Cristian Niculescu
Producer: Tamási Áron Theatre, Sfântu- Gheorghe
Duration: 2h
Not suitable under 16 years of age
Performance in Hungarian with Romanian subtitles
Anica is the lover of a declining mobster, in a peripheral area of Belgrade, who one day decides to escape and start a new life. Throughout that single day, from morning til evening, this 30 year old woman tries to carry out her secret escape plan, which gets complicated in a very Balkanic style and becomes a story about Love and Other Crimes. A bitter, bizarre, friksy and melancholic story.
The world is full of fugitives. Should we have to single out just one character at the expense of whom both film and theatre benefited a lot from, that character would be The Fugitive. Both theatre and film are full of such characters because, since the beginning of time, people have just wanted to escape! To escape poverty, misery, their own minds, unhappiness and disease, ghosts or loneliness. They flee on a wild-goose chase. They run away from fear. Anica also wants to escape a world that she is more captive of that she realises. A world in which she is chained to Milutin – the mobster lover, to his daughter – Ivana, a highly vulnerable and suicidal character, to Stanislav – the sentimental and philandering mobster who opens her the way to an impossible love, to his mother – a senile singer, whose passion for music is secretly financed by her son.
Photo credit: Zsolt Barabás
