SEPTEMBER 12, 6:00 PM, Arcadia Hall
Show duration: 70 min.
Age limit: 16+
Faculty of Theater and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca

by Sivan Ben Yishai

directed by: Andrei Han, Alexandru Ceban, Ioana Dajbog

with: Maialgesa Dat, Alexandra-Ioana Harapu, Maria Elena Morar, Victor Muntean, Mara Solomon

How honest can theater be in a world where everything is performed, directed, and packaged. STAGE ABUSE is a show about the limits of political theater, about the frustrations of those who take the stage to "change the world." About us, the artists. About you, the audience. About what unites us in the darkness of the hall, even when everything seems lost.

Sivan Ben Yishai writes this text as a contemporary response to Peter Handke's "Abuse of the Audience," the 1966 manifesto play that radically questioned theatrical conventions and transformed the passivity of the spectator into an act of awareness.

A lucid and incisive show that questions theater, truth, and our role as spectators.