2016 edition

”[…]Victor Ioan Frunză drew up his own dramatic script, practically rewrote the play, concentrated it, but, even more importantly, modernized it. […] Everything happens in today's world and everything takes the form not of a story from a slum, but of a neighborhood story.

"REASONS TO BE PRETTY it's a show about normal people with absolutely normal dramas, who are condemned to live in a culture of the extraordinary, a culture where beauty standards refer only to physical appearance. The dramas of the four characters often become ridiculous or absurd because no one would have thought how much the way others perceive us matters today.

Saluting as we walked it's a contemporary text written by Mihaela Mihai from Ploiești and staged at the Artemotion Theater in Oradea with the support of the col. John Baciu. The premiere took place on October 16 in Oradea and stars actors Sebastian Lupu and Mirela Lupu.

Shhhhh!!! Just a slapstick comedy in which the audience is the stage partner. A show that "sweeps away the beliefs about the theater known to us so far and opens a new door to the semi-silent theater. The audience and the actor work together, merging like two drops of dew, so the only sounds are the laughter of the audience and their applause.

Svejk – The show is based on the dramatization made by the director Alexandru Dabija, inspired by the book written by Jaroslav Hašek – Adventures of the brave soldier Svejk (translation by Jean Grosu). It is considered one of the most memorable and successful satirical writings in world literature, being in addition to an intelligent and convincing anti-war manifesto, and one of the funniest novels ever written.

"Three actors (Corina Cernea, Sorin Ionescu, Georgia Căprărin), an excellent text adapted from a Russian playwright and an inspired direction by Denisa Vlad [...] The comedy show starts from an act of extreme shopping, the passion of a young mistress for her husband in others it goes so far that the wife receives a financial offer for the release of the prisoner in the marriage.

In the play DUST the subject is simple: the husband (the head of the family struggling to survive from a financial point of view) wins the jackpot in the Lotto. The happy event gradually becomes a "nuisance", through the various assumptions, with negative valences, of the wife.

Szilágyi Domokos wrote The Book of the Elders drawing inspiration from his drawings Sandor plow. The verses are numbered; there are 699 verses, maybe 699 steps towards the great passage, an inner path of a man at the end of one road and the beginning of another.

LEONCE AND LENA – a prince from the Kingdom of Popo and a princess from the Kingdom of Pipi, are forced by their parents to marry - an arranged marriage that has, at bottom, a political purpose. However, the two princes decide to run away from such an arrangement, even before they meet. But fate plays a trick on them and on their way they meet and, without knowing each other's true identity, fall in love.

IT'S ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL takes a close look at the relationships of a generation that stands out for running away from obligations, always looking for something better. A show about well-educated 30-somethings who bounce from one temporary job to another, are always on the road and live in semi-furnished homes, but whose social media profiles are updated non-stop and set up.

You could say that Ich Bin Ophelia it is a sample of theatrical theory, but done with maximum involvement and sensitivity. Intended to break down the levers of a classic text in order to reassemble them.

show ILLUSIONS tells about the fate of two couples in the twilight of their existence. The four friends talk about love, about truths and lies, about illusions and unconfessed desires and unlived or broken dreams. Cast in the form of a sequence of monologues, the show takes place in an open space, where the backstage does not exist, the characters begin to reveal themselves on a journey about the illusion of life. The actors of Illusions take the stage looking for a fresh breath, delivering monologues accompanied by a live cello.

IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT – THE LEAR EPISODE starts from the subject of the Shakespearean text: a king wants to abdicate and divide his kingdom among his three daughters, but before making any decision he asks them to express his love for him. Following the evidence of affection, he decides to banish his youngest daughter, disturbed by the sincerity and naturalness of the confession. But he is rejected by his eldest daughters and, with his mind troubled by suffering, ends up wandering at random.

Christopher is not dreaming. He calculates, analyzes, weighs, measures, observes and perceives life through the unpoetic filters of logic. He is a special teenager, 15 years old, with Asperger syndrome, who defines himself as a "mathematician with some behavioral difficulties". A child Sherlock Holmes, who knows for sure that killing Wellington the dog with a fork is the mystery that only his little gray cells can solve.

ORLANDO he is at the same time a boy, a woman, a novel, in different eras, in different styles, and now also a monodrama at the Csokonai National Theater in Debrecen, Hungary. It's time travel: different stations from the Elizabethan era to the 20th century.

Tip of the Iceberg – A multinational company is shaken by the suicides of three of its employees, all of which happened in less than 5 months. From the headquarters of the company in Madrid, Sofia Cuevas is sent to investigate what happened. Arriving at the scene, she tries to find the answer to the question: "why do company employees commit suicide?".