9 November| 19:00 – Bulandra Theater, Liviu Ciulei Hall
By: Florian Zeller
Translated by: Carmen Iernilă
Cast:
André: Victor Rebengiuc
Anne: Ana Ioana Macaria
The Man: Cătălin Babliuc
The Woman: Oana Tudor
Laura: Maria Veronica Vârlan
Pierre: Constantin Dogioiu
Directed by: Cristi Juncu
Set design: Carmencita Brojboiu
Adapted for stage by: Raluca Aprodu
Producer: Lucia Sturdza Bulandra Theatre Bucharest
Duration: 1h 45min
General audience
Performance in Romanian with English subtitles
Anne tries her best to take care of André, her father, whose unreliable memory makes him increasingly vulnerable. Discouraged by his short temper, the caretakers are of no help and leave him one after another. The father’s memories gradually disintegrate. Everything is blurred around him, a confused melange where places mix with each other and loved ones mix with strangers. In the twilight of his existence, his perplexity grips him more and more into an irreversible loneliness. Deeply moving, The Father is a serious and realistic family story and an unsentimental, intensely emotional look at the world through the eyes of a man dealing with dementia, a dramatic illustration of the physical losses that come along with the mental ones.
Photo credit: Cosmin Ardeleanu
