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Theorem

October 20th | 19:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)

A young man enters the home of a rich bourgeois. He is beauty itself. And his arrival is more of a visit that is filled with physical possession. The maid, Emilia, then the son of the family, Pietro, the mother, Lucia, the daughter, Odetta, and the father, Paolo, all get to know the guest in the biblical sense. But after his sudden departure, what will be left of the message he left? Will only the servant know salvation? Therefore, unlike the bourgeois, according to Pasolini, she has not replaced her conscience with her soul, nor her morality with her sense of the sacred.

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By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Stage adaptation: Yann Verburgh

With: Gyan Ros, Cendana Trifan, Raluca Iani, Adrian Matioc, Antonia Dobocan, Radu Costea, Patrick Imbrescu

Directed by: Eugen Jebeleanu

Set design and costumes: Velica Panduru

Original music: Remi Billardon

Light design: Cristian Niculescu

Producer: “Radu Stanca” National Theatre in Sibiu

Duration: 1h 42 min (no intermission)

Recommended age: 16+

Performance in Romanian and Spanish with English subtitles

Theorem is about the stranger next door, a recurring theme in my projects, and this narrative has always been my main reference when analysing this aspect. After Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher and Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, texts that explore very deeply this theme of the other as a revealing factor of identity and intimate and political discovery, Theorem is my most authentic gesture today in my attempt to explore otherness regarding everything that goes outside the pattern, the norm, the conventional structures. With this text, and through the adaptation and contextualization of Yann Verburgh’s dramaturgy, I want to search for the repercussions of the stifled desire that awakens demons, but also identity revelations. As a fable of the new sexual revolution, I wish to conceive a performance about the dialogue between desire and ownership. The visitor, this object of impossible desire, becomes the engine that triggers the deepest and most visceral feelings, sensations and instincts. Based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s novel, the dramaturgy and the directorial concept will revolve around the question: Who is the stranger in me, as a reflection of the mirror turned towards those who have alienated themselves. Are we in tune with who we are? Do we know ourselves? Do we have the freedom to take responsibility for our actions? These are some of the questions that we are asking the audience through this intimate and political manifesto.” (Eugen Jebeleanu, director)

Photo: Sebastian Marcovici