October 21st | 18:30 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)
“Purcărete’s show is hard to summarise, as it is filled with significant details, dialogue lines, intonations, gestures, interactions, ‘lizards’, if I may call them as such, that make it tricksy, extremely contemporary, truly parodic, yet very friendly and accessible to the spectator (even though it’s not exactly easy to grasp or lacking in questionings).” – Claudiu Groza, Theatre Today (“Teatrul Azi”)
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After: Women, Beware Women de Thomas Middleton
Translated by: Silviu Purcărete
Cast:
Duke: Ionuț Cornilă
Cardinal: Dumitru Năstrușnicu
Fabritio: Călin Chirilă
Hippolito: Cosmin Maxim
Livia: Ada Lupu
Isabella: Diana Roman
Guardiano: Doru Aftanasiu
Protege: Horia Veriveș
Leantio: Răzvan Conțu
Bianca: Mălina Lazăr
Mother: Petronela Grigorescu
Sordido: Andrei Sava
In other roles:
Andreea Boboc, Diana Chirilă, Haruna Condurache, Radu Ghilaș, Robert Agape,Alexandra Azoiței, Mara Bărbărie, Iustin Căuneac, Ionuț Cozma, Luca Gumeni, George Gușuleac, Valentin Mocanu, Eduard Pîslariu, Anamaria Rusu, Marian Stavarachi
Directed by: Silviu Purcărete
Set design: Dragoș Buhagiar
Original music: Vasile Șirli
Assistant director: Radu Ghilaș, Robert Vlad
Set design assistant: Anda Pop
Producer: Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre Iași
Duration: 2h 30 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 16+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
„Women, Beware Women is a troubling play. As in King Lear, the plots reinforce each other; each imposed marriage seals away the possibility of a happier alternative. The characters talk about their physical and emotional desires as if they were something of fundamental significance. Dramatic irony drives the formalism of social comedy into a tragic world. The women are lured haphazardly into a treacherous sexual paradise; the paradise collapses into a disturbing and powerfully ironised vision of carnal doom.” (John Jowett on Women, Beware Women: A Tragedy)
Photo: Iulian Ursachi
