24 October | 17:00 – ODEON Theatre, Bucharest, Studio Hall
Five dedicated teachers want to change the world from their classroom. The world is not so easy to change.
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By: David Schwartz
Cast:
Vasile, Counselor: David Drugaru
Patricia: Anamaria Feraru
Otilia, Mrs. Mayor: Silvana Mihai
Emilia, Mrs. Inspector: Katia Pascariu
Dacian: Tavi Voina
Directed by: David Schwartz
Set design: Irina Gâdiuță
Choreography: Paula Dunker / Paul Dunca
Original music: Paul-Ovidiu Cosovanu
Assistant director and production: Eva Todică
Graphics: Cătălin Rulea
Producer: Political Theatre Platform (O2G Association)
Duration: 1h 55 min (no intermision)
Recommended age: 12+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
According to stage director David Schwartz, who has constantly taken an interest in researching the political stakes of documentary theatre, education becomes a theme of layered, systemic reflection, when seen from the perspective of rural teachers. Education, like a ball of fragile threads, as a thin rope on which teachers constantly balance between precariousness and survival, between disinterest and wishful thinking, is explored theatrically with playful inventiveness and analytical acuity. Acrobats is the chronicle of an educational present torn by infinite paradoxes. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Andra Tarara
