October 25th | 19:00 – HEARTH Association / Kerim House (Parfumului Street, no. 19)
Two strangers experience a night together during which nothing is what it seems, not even time.
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By: Mihai Ivașcu
Cast:
Irina: Alexandra Mihaela Dancs
Mircea: Vlad Benescu
Voice interventions: Jean Lorin Sterian and Robert Bălan
Concept, artistic direction, set design and choreography: Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu
Original music: Lala Mișosniky
Sound design: Lala Mișosniky
Sound mastering: Studio 48-50
Light design: Vlad Benescu
Co-producers: Asociația HEARTH and Theatre in Palm
Performance co-funded through the Theatre in Palm platform within the Local Theatre Lab
Duration: 1h 10 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
Focus: 12 independent/private spaces in NTF 2024
On a spectacular level, Night Shift is, first of all, an innovative performative approach: not pure theatre, nor dance, nor entirely a performance or an installation, but rather a hybrid that we call dancephonic-theatre, a total, self-contained interpretive dialect – you cannot extract the musical composition from the sounds of the actors’ physicality, the choreography from the direction, the spoken text from the image or, better said, from the imaginary of movement. It is a performance of all kinds of agglutinations, of proximity and sonority, a tour de force whose dramatic metaphor contains a matryoshka-like love story. Mircea and Irina, the two characters, meet and fall in love when neither of them has anything to lose: in an extreme situation, the two live a typical “one-night stand” during an atypical night, in which there is no present, past or future, life or death, dream or reality, but only open doors between all of them, the doors becoming a pretext for melancholic, existentialist and comic thematic tensions. “Free prisoners” of a world that is ritualistic in meaning but contemporary in the elements that make it up, the lovers live, imagine or recall an emotional bond in which we can all potentially find ourselves, but nothing is what it seems.
Free entry (limited to 22 seats), reservation by e-mail: [email protected]
Photo: Mihai Smeu
