October 20th | 18:00 – ODEON Theatre Bucharest, Majestic Hall
”The bitter lexicon will be seen through different lenses, each emerging from personal experience and different types of spectators. For most young people it can be THE show, for connoisseurs it’s like an encounter with an old friend, apparently unchanged, but full of mistery. (…) Silviu Purcărete doesn’t betray the nature of fairytale, he simply extends its ideas further without harming its artistic merits. The magical and mysterious scenes are contained inside an immediate reality and are exposed simply like possible events that shouldn’t shock anyone.” (Alina Maer, scenesicuvinte.ro)
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By: Sebastian Vlad Popa and Laur Cavachi, after ”Eternal Life and Everlasting Youth” by Petre Ispirescu
Cast:
Uncle: Claudiu Bleonț
Young emperor: Silvian Vâlcu
Empress: Ruxandra Maniu
Făt-frumos (”Beautiful-boy”): Niko Becker
Graduate Eduard/ Horse: Eduard Trifa
Zorilă: Diana Gheorghian
Old emperor/ Făt-frumos (”Beautiful-boy): Ionel Mihăilescu
Von Locknow: Ioan Batinaș
Christoph: Ionuț Kivu
Crone: Virginia Rogin
Shrews: Mădălina Ciotea, Sabrina Iașchevici, Anda Saltelechi, Antoaneta Zaharia
Fairies: Ioana Mărcoiu, Crina Mureșan, Paula Niculiță
Cook: Relu Poalelungi
Directed by: Silviu Purcărete
Set design: Dragoș Buhagiar
Original music: Vasile Șirli
Producer: Teatrul ODEON
Recommended age: 12+
Duration: 2h (no intermission)
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
SILVIU PURCĂRETE – 50 years of creation
«The bitter lexicon is a stage adaptation respectful towards the fundamental theme in Eternal Life and Everlasting Youth by Petre Ispirescu: creation by word and the unsparing of spoken word. But if the ”contemporary” aspect could seem shrill to you, then the intention of the new text is in danger because the authors Sebastian-Vlad Popa and Laur Cavachi don’t claim to have adapted the fairytale to slang or to recent sensibilities. So we hope that all that is said to be understood thorough today’s lenses will read as a natural expansion of concise and fast-paced sequences in the original text that only incorporate the archetype into present time not vice-versa. Therefore, we hope to have kept the intensity in the mandatory relationship between word, interdiction and death.
Decisive to the faith of this rewriting is the fact that is has been asked for, then received, then associated with the sensible thinking of a genius yet fastidious creator, Silviu Purcărete.» (Sebastian-Vlad Popa and Laur Cavachi)
Photo: Mihaela Marin
