23 October | 19:00 – ODEON Theatre, Bucharest, Studio Hall
A drama class is preparing for the performance-exam. The limitations between theatre and real life, between school and personal life, between normality and abnormality mix together and fade away.
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By: Alexa Băcanu
The performance contains fragments from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare, translated by Ștefan Octavian Iosif.
Cast:
Professor: Doru Taloș
STUDENTS:
Narcis: Radu Dogaru
Laur: Christian Har
Noemi: Emőke Pál
Iulia: Paula Seichei
Robi: Adonis Tanța
Choir: Maialgesa Dat, Călin Deneș, Ana Maria Marin, Duncan McKee, Victor Muntean, Ana Rednic, Oana Rotaru
Secretary: Oana Mardare / Andrada Balea
Directed by: Dragoș Alexandru Mușoiu
Set design: Mihai Păcurar
Choreography:: Sergiu Diță
Original music: Max Anchidin, Renata Burcă, Magor Bocsárdi, Csaba Boros, Tibor Cári, Radu Dogaru, Ada Milea, Adrian Piciorea, Corina Sucarov, Peter Visky, Compozitor anonim
Musical training: Adonis Tanța
Light design and Sound design: Cătălin Filip
Sound: Radu Boancă
Producer: Reactor of Creation and Experiment, Cluj-Napoca
Duration: 2h 20 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
Conceived as a musical, The Dream becomes a kind of laboratory for dissecting the relationships between teachers/professors and male/female students, exposing dramatic situations with a critical attitude, with irony and poignancy of analysis. On the fine edge between internalization, normalization and precise identification of abuse, The Dream deepens the power relations in the academic environment and thus becomes a performance, a reflection on how learning spaces can produce trauma. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Vlad Braga
