Previous editions 2016 – 2026

”[…]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.

"Being born in Arad, I often wondered who lived in the buildings on which today it says "historical monument" or what kind of shops there were 100 years ago instead of the pharmacies and casinos that exist today on the boulevard and what were people doing on a saturday night?

"Immigrate or there are too many of us on this damn boat", by Matei Vişniec, artistic direction Ovidiu Caiţa, scenography Oana Cernea, presents a hot topic of today's Europe, confronted with the wave of migrants from the East, which is invading the continent from the sea. The show is designed from a sequence of scenes, which present events that happened on the route followed by the migrants, from the boat that transports them across the sea, with the group of cynical guides, who treat them as a commodity, but, presenting their good intentions, giving the migrants behavioral instructions at sea, then in Europe.

Slava's wife, Renata, dies. After a while, he finds his wife's e-mails, from which it emerges that, for years, Renata had cheated on him, thus invalidating his paternity. As much as it pains him, he understands that he has no right to blame Renata, because he has also had a mistress for about four years. Still thinking about the nature of lying, Slava decides to stop lying, to tell only the truth. And this decision brings him new suffering: he becomes rude and uncomfortable for the rest of the world.

The Little Soldier is a story for all ages and all times, carrying with it the scent of childhood forever. The world seen through the eyes of a 9-year-old girl is as candid and unpredictable as a serious game of life and death. The show is composed like a childish puzzle from the memories of Grandma, the central character of this Cosmos, the mistress of the games and the holder of all the small and big questions in the universe. Grandma is childhood, she is the world, she is life. That is why she is not allowed to disappear, and little Ami decides to save her grandmother from death, training an entire army of soldiers to defend her...

"FAT PIG" by Neil LaBute, is a bitter comedy about uncomfortable subjects, about how brave we are to be ourselves, about cowardice in the face of a cruel society that, apparently, strives for perfection but in reality puts a lot of pressure on us. We end up simulating this perfection by displaying FORMS established by society as the image of perfection, but which only reaches form because the substance is lost in this uniformity. "Fat Pig" is the story of a young corporate man who falls in love with a cute overweight librarian, only his friends and colleagues at the firm react strongly when they learn of the young man's "inappropriate" relationship.

I don't expect anyone to come to the theater today just to see two hours of the agony of a decrepit actor in a mutilated theater at the end of a world in agony. I think we are facing a text about decomposition and disintegration, organic and essential fears of each of us. And that's what we tried to talk about, each in the way we had the courage to reveal ourselves. Of course, at the same time, the show questions the meaning of art, of theater, in uncertain times for society. We ask questions about the status of the artist and his relationship with the world. But this is not the main purpose of our approach.