27 October | 21:00 – ODEON Theatre, Majestic Hall
At the Academy is a comedy with a bitter taste, about the life of Romanian peasants at the face of the iminent danger of their environment being ruined.
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By: Alexandra Felseghi
Cast:
Prologue / Leontin Puiu: Ioan Crețescu
Mayor (Constantin Păciugă): Cezar Amitroaei
Deputy mayor (Liviu Pietricică): Gheorghe Frunză
Father (Vasile Picioruș): Sorin Ciofu
Ion, do it all man at the City Hall: Răzvan Amitroaei
Vera, secretary at the City Hall: Gina Patrașcu Zamfirache
Neighbor 1: Radu Dragoș
Neighbor 2: Sorin Ciofu
Neighbor 3: Daniela Bucătaru
Aunt Chiva (Paraschiva Văcăruș): Crenola Muncaciu
Tudorel: Ionuț Crețu / Matei Său
Corina Rîmeș, former diva: Daniela Bucătaru
Directed by: Andrei Măjeri
Set design: Adrian Balcău
Choreography: Victoria Bucun
Original music: Adrian Piciorea
Light design: Andrei Măjeri
Producer: Mihai Eminescu Theatre, Botoșani
Duration: 1h 50 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
Andrei Măjeri’s performance at the theatre in Botoșani, based on Alexandra Felseghi’s writing, explores the Romanian countryside in a sensitive, ironical and empathetic way, explicitly aspiring to a type of “popular theatre” (in fact, similar to the “raw theatre” theorized by Peter Brook). The project follows the structural mutations undergone by one of the most ambiguous social categories, that of the peasant, in a quasi-methodological way, taking up Caragiale’s “weap and laugh” formula. The research is being done not only in relation to the present, but also to eternity, as the director develops his unpredictable, ironically metaphysical tonalities. One more reason speaking up for this performance is the clearly detectable evolution of an artistic team and their necessary come back within the â national theatrical limelight. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Albert Dobrin and Luana Popa
