Previous editions 2016 – 2026

HIGHWAY
American director, screenwriter, playwright, Neil LaBute develops in "Autobahn” characters that we can find on the streets of any city in the world today. The show proposes a journey inside a couple who go "on the road" through an "accident". Within the physical confines of an automobile, conflict spans the full range of emotions that can arise between two people.

THE BOOK OF THE ELDERLY
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.

IT'S ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL
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.

ICH BIN OFELIA
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.

ILLUSIONS
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
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.

A STRANGE INCIDENT WITH A DOG AT MIDNIGHT
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
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
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?".

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS / A GOOD GAME
With a little help from my friends it's a show about a generation's cry of rage that needs to be heard and understood. In the middle of a summer night, on a beach, in a strange landscape, a game takes place that is as dangerous as it is seductive. Some teenagers come to the sea to have fun, to fall in love, to dream and maybe to die.

THE BELGRADE TRILOGY
Spectators are invited to a play that, in a comic or dramatic tone, presents the challenges and difficulties that young people face in trying to integrate in their adopted countries. THE BELGRADE TRILOGY presents three stories of young people from Belgrade who choose to leave their native country where they see no solution for their future. All the characters in the Belgrade Trilogy show emigrate to something, somewhere, in different contexts. For them, leaving comes with failure.

TWELFTH NIGHT
”[…]The show at Metropolis, like all Victor Ioan Frunză’s recent productions, on which he works with a well-welded team, has the merit of being at the same time an excellent audience comedy, where you laugh out loud for minutes in a row, to impeccably acted scenes, and an intelligent research, at the center of which is the man, "this strange animal".

MASQUERADE
MASQUERADE is a musical drama in three acts (five scenes) composed by Giuseppe Verdi. The action takes place in and around Boston at the end of the 17th century and centers around Governor Riccardo, Earl of Warwick. The governor is in love with Amelia, the wife of his secretary and friend Renato.

EVENT
Piece EVENT he received the prize for debut at the dramaturgy competition launched by the "Szigligeti" Theatre, the "Tomcsa Sándor" Theater from Odorheiu Secuiesc, respectively the Târgu-Mureș University of Arts. The show is a production dedicated to young people who are at the beginning of their careers, but who have already distinguished themselves through their artistic activities.

LOVERS FROM ANCONA
Lovers from Ancona - Tomao Nicomaco, a widowed and rich Don Juan, in his last youth, is the most important man in the city. His daughter, Lucia – stuttering and short-sighted, is madly in love with Luigi, a busker who shares her feelings. But Don Tomao wants to marry her to someone else.

THE LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN SAINT
The Legend of St. Betiv – Andreas is a "clochard" in Paris in the middle of the 20th century. He spends the night under the bridges of the Seine, covers himself with newspapers stolen daily from overturned dumpsters on the sidewalks, spends his time with a handful of beggars as ragged as himself. The only difference from the group: Andreas is a happy drunk who made alcohol a support in life, a philosophy, a creed.