23 October | 20:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)
A visual poem about the passage of time and the ways in which characters of different ages manage their condition of being ephemeral humans that feel, dream, suffer and love in close connection with nature.
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By: Simona Popescu and Radu Afrim
Cast:
Róza: Katalin Berekméri
Viorel (Stalker): Nicu Mihoc
Darius Mureșan: Alex Stoicescu
Stamina: Laura Mihalache
Rebeca: Cristina Holtzli
Sister 1: Loredana Dascălu
Sister 2: Georgiana Ghergu
Teacher: Mihaela Mihai
Piticu: Luchian Pantea
Her: Elena Purea
Him: Theo Marton
Dia: Ale Țifrea
Cameraman: Radu Anastas
Script, direction, soundtrack and recordings: Radu Afrim
Stage design and poster: Irina Moscu
Stage dramaturgy: Andreea Radu
Light design: Cristian Niculescu
Video montage: Samu Trucza
Assistant director: Dragoș Stoenescu
Assistant stage designer: Doró Sikó
Producer: National Theatre Târgu Mureș – Liviu Rebreanu Company
Duration: 2h 20 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
Could language (still) create worlds? Could words (still) generate realities? Could poetry (still) save something or someone? These are some of the questions raised by this very fertile theatrical partnership between director Radu Afrim and poet Simona Popescu. Stage direction itself turns into poetry, just as poetry, through its power to organize the unseen, is symbolically invited to take over the functions of the stage direction. Beyond the linguistic explorations, the Afrimian Herbarium addresses the unsettling, ever more urgent theme of the alienation of the human being, its loss of the connection to nature and the irreversibility of that process. Powerful in sound, visually complex, Herbarium addresses us directly, telling us, in various forms, what we have been and what we have become. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Cristina Gânj (Bristena)
