22 October | 20:30 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)
“It is a play rather about an inner exile of the characters, about the inability to be free, to break away from the past, to discover and assume their identity, to get in touch with their deepest nature, with their most hidden desires. We in Romania still carry the trauma of the education we were given at school and in our families during the dictatorship. This is something that is found in all people who have lived in dictatorships or have been brought up by parents who have gone through this experience. There is no point being born in a free country if your parents lived in fear.” (Alexandra Badea)
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By: Alexandra Badea
Cast:
Ema: Ada Galeș
Vlad: Emilian Oprea
Agnes: Cosmina Olariu
Liviu: Florin Călbăjos
Irina: Crina Semciuc
Marius: Emilian Mârnea
Magda: Ana Ciontea
Agnes 2: Irina Movilă
Irene: Diana Dumbravă
Paul 2: Mihai Călin
Ian: Alexandru Potocean
Marius 2: Richard Bovnoczki / Liviu Lucaci
Paul: Ionuț Toader
Oana: Aylin Cadîr
Horia: Vitalie Bichir
Directed by: Alexandra Badea
Stage design: Cosmin Florea
Original music: Călin Țopa
Light design: Mircea Mitroi
Sound design: Sorin Brehuescu, George Puiu
Producer: National Theatre I.L. Caragiale Bucharest
Duration: 2h 40 min (with intermission)
General audience
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
In Exile, Alexandra Badea walks the path of disturbing political events in the present of a group of people seeking an emotional reconciliation with the past. Exploring the extremely sensitive theme of belonging and theatrically constructing intertwining layers of time, Exile is a performance-interrogation on the confrontations between macro-history and personal histories, as they become fragile by inherited silences, by ruptures with visible wounds, by departures and returns to places that still ache, by the memories of women who carry their traumas and search of healing words. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Adi Bulboacă, Florin Ghioca
