October 19th | 20.00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Studio Hall
“Radu Afrim’s show is a broad poem of missed chances, of divided existences, of disappearances of all kinds, of the gaping in yawns ever more unsettling…. Hence, a story about man, time and fragility. (Nicoleta Munteanu)
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After contemporary female prose by: Ștefania Mihalache, Anca Vieru, Lorina Bălteanu, Ruxandra Burcescu, Lavinica Mitu, Simona Popescu
Cast:
Paper flower by Radu Afrim
(with an inserted poem by Khalil Gibran)
Children: Ada Lupu, Mălina Lazăr, Diana Vieru, Anamaria Rusu, Andreea Stratulă, Octavian Păun, Andrei Sava, Luca Gumeni
Trickster: Răzvan Conțu
My hill has no top by Lorina Bălteanu
Child: Octavian Păun
Cuza’s Firea getting married by Lorina Bălteanu
Firea: Diana Vieru
Miluță : Ionuț Cornilă
Firea’s mother: Georgeta Burdujan
Firea’s father: Daniel Busuioc
Firea’s brother: Octavian Păun
Firea’s sister: Anamaria Rusu
Godfather: Cosmin Maxim
Godmother: Diana Roman
Old Dochia: Pușa Darie
Mister Profir: Dumitru Năstrușnicu
Two little girls: Mălina Lazăr, Andreea Stratulă
Ghiocel: Răzvan Conțu
Girl: Ada Lupu
Girl’s mother: Horia Veriveș
Stranger: Andrei Sava
Liminița: Livia Iorga
Wedding attendants: Marian Stavarachi, Luca Gumeni
In the devastated garden by Lorina Bălteanu
Girl: Ada Lupu
Photographer: Răzvan Conțu
Mother: Livia Iorga
Father: Ionuț Cornilă
Mother’s sister: Diana Roman
Brother: Andrei Sava
Grandmother: Pușa Darie
Lady Raia: Georgeta Burdujan
Male cousin: Luca Gumeni
Female cousin: Anamaria Rusu
Two little girls: Mălina Lazăr, Andreea Stratulă
Little boy: Octavian Păun
Pipettes and strawberries by Ștefania Mihalache
Ileana: Mălina Lazăr
Lady Craiu: Pușa Darie
Nuca: Diana Vieru
Titi: Luca Gumeni
Second flowering of the large mallow by Radu Afrim
Dance monologues for an actress
With: Ada Lupu
The Last Father by Lavinica Mitu
Sabina: Anamaria Rusu, Ada Lupu, Mălina Lazăr, Andreea Stratulă, Diana Vieru, Diana Roman
Father: Daniel Busuioc
Mother: Georgeta Burdujan
Brother: Octavian Păun
Marius: Cosmin Maxim
Sorin: Ionuț Cornilă
Boss on the train: Marian Stavarachi
Irinel: Luca Gumeni
Travelers: Dumitru Năstrușnicu, Horia Veriveș, Andrei Sava, Răzvan Conțu
Move away by Anca Vieru
Clara: Livia Iorga
Lady Dragomir: Pușa Darie
Daisy Johnson: Mălina Lazăr
Postman: Dumitru Năstrușnicu
Photographer: Răzvan Conțu
Asking for autographs: Horia Veriveș, Cosmin Maxim, Luca Gumeni, Marian Stavarachi
Goldans of thought by Ruxandra Burcescu
Nina: Diana Roman
Nina as a child: Mălina Lazăr
Ileana, Nina’s mother: Livia Iorga
Barbu, Nina’s father: Ionuț Cornilă
Gârga: Horia Veriveș
Costi: Luca Gumeni
Grandmother: Pușa Darie
Sofia: Anamaria Rusu / Ioana Aciobăniței
Maria: Andreea Stratulă
Priest: Cosmin Maxim
Ghiocel: Răzvan Conțu
Corporate man / Deacon: Andrei Sava
Cerasela: Diana Vieru
Anca: Anamaria Rusu
Fănică: Marian Stavarachi
Villagers: Daniel Busuioc, Cosmin Maxim, Georgeta Burdujan, Dumitru Năstrușnicu
Children: Ada Lupu, Octavian Păun, Răzvan Conțu, Andrei Sava
I remember by Simona Popescu
With: Ada Lupu, Pușa Darie, Ionuț Cornilă, Livia Iorga, Diana Roman, Mălina Lazăr, Horia Veriveș, Daniel Busuioc, Razvan Conțu, Andrei Sava, Cosmin Maxim, Dumitru Năstrușnicu, Georgeta Burdujan, Diana Vieru, Octavian Păun, Luca Gumeni, Anamaria Rusu, Andreea Stratulă, Marian Stavarachi, Ioana Aciobăniței
Playwright, director, soundscape, filming: Radu Afrim
Set design: Cosmin Florea
Assistant director: Anamaria Rusu
Choreography: Alice Veliche
Rehearsal and musical arrangements: Diana Roman
Video projection/filming/mapping: Mihai Nistor
Light design: Cristian Niculescu
Producer: Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre Iași
Duration: 3h 30 min (with intermission)
Recommended age: 16+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
“It’s a game I can’t get enough of, this game where I put together texts from talented writers who – apparently – have nothing in common. I’ve received many texts in which disappearance appeared. It appeared and disappeared. I kept those texts in which disappearance persists. I sat down with actors for days, sorting out short prose. We are now the possessors of a collection of disappearances. The most beautiful disappearances. Who needs it?
From the bleakest disappearance (the life of a little girl in a village in northeastern Romania) to the most absurdly dated (the disappearance of pipes working under Ceaușescu from inside the bellies of our citizens), the anthology we are compiling before the eyes of the audience can anticipate, provoke nostalgia, haunt and discourage fans of the palpable when they are told that only memory saves us from disappearance.” (Radu Afrim)
Photo: Paul Chiș
