17 October| 17:00 and 21:00 – „I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre Bucharest, Pictură Hall
Elise Wilk’s psycho-plastic drama explores the story of a mother and daughter trying to reconnect with each other during the communist era in Romania.
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By: Elise Wilk
Translated by: Mária Albert
Cast:
Nora, b.1948 / Gustav, Anita’s father: Dorottya Nagy
Victoria, Nora’s daughter, b.1972: Katalin Berekméri
Anita, Victoria’s daughter, b.1991 / Fredi, Victoria’s father / Engineer: Ramóna Gecse
Alaska, a shiny creature / Paula, Gustav’s partner / Cami from Arad / Auntie Smântână, postwoman/ Jutta, Jens’ sister from the GDR / Marcela Penescu, one of Victoria’s classmates / Assistant: Erzsébet B. Fülöp
Berta: A cream colored Dacia 1300 (make 1983)
Directed by: Aba Sebestyén
Set design by: Beáta Sós
Costumes: Judit Dobre-Kóthay
Choreography: Tünde Baczó
Original music: Tibor Cári
By: Elise Wilk
Translated by: Mária Albert
Cast:
Nora, b.1948 / Gustav, Anita’s father: Dorottya Nagy
Victoria, Nora’s daughter, b.1972: Katalin Berekméri
Anita, Victoria’s daughter, b.1991 / Fredi, Victoria’s father / Engineer: Ramóna Gecse
Alaska, a shiny creature / Paula, Gustav’s partner / Cami from Arad / Auntie Smântână, postwoman/ Jutta, Jens’ sister from the GDR / Marcela Penescu, one of Victoria’s classmates / Assistant: Erzsébet B. Fülöp
Berta: A cream colored Dacia 1300 (make 1983)
Directed by: Aba Sebestyén
Set design by: Beáta Sós
Costumes: Judit Dobre-Kóthay
Choreography: Tünde Baczó
Original music: Tibor Cári
Behind the wheel of a Dacia 1300 car, Victoria, accompanied by the entity Alaska, embarks on a road trip & time travel and relives key moments from her own life, but also from the lives of her mother and daughter. Crossing the communist period, passing through the chaotic 90s, and the uncertain period of the regime change, she reaches the present day. Through three female destinies, the play investigates the traces left in us by the communist past.
Elise Wilk’s latest piece was commissioned by Studio Yorick.
Photos: Sándor Bereczky
