27 Octomber | 21:00 – Bulandra Theatre, Liviu Ciulei Hall (Izvor)
The Maids by Jean Genet, first played in 1947’s Paris, surrounded by violent protesting, mercilessly exposes the perversion of a conservative and retrograde society, questioning morality as a privilege of the rich and powerful.
In a key that is both playful and biting, the play explores the limits between love and hatred in a structurally unfair world.
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By: Jean Genet
Translation and stage adaptation: Hunor Horvath, Paula Breuer
Cast:
Solange: Yannick Becker
Claire: Benedikt Haefner
Madame: Daniel Bucher
Jean Genet: Ana Tiepac
Directed by: Hunor Horvath
Set design: Elöd Golicza
Costumes: Zsofia Gabor
Choreography: Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen
Light design: Cristian Niculescu
Sound design: Bogdan Ropcea, István Szabó
Video Design: Dan Basu
Original music: RakLap OffChestra
Guitar and piano: Tamás Kolozsi
Drums: Tas Kerezsi
Electric guitar: Máté Duka
Bass: Soma Kolozsi
Voice: Dorka Mihály, Mátyás Hubbes
Producer: Radu Stanca National Theatre Sibiu – German section
Duration: 1h 40 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in German with Romanian and English surtitles
Director Hunor Horváth proposes an original, extremely courageous, radical view on Jean Genet’s text. With firy live music rhythming the confrontations between reality, appearance and projection, into a redeeming imaginary, The Chambermaids turns out to be a performance about the exploitation and submission of the vulnerable ones, about constraint and transformative revolt, about the fluidity of identities that melt and get to be reborn from their own combustion, about the possibility of destabilizing pre-established social roles. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Andrei Văleanu
