Theatre

If anybody would be interested in finding out what is Tankred Dorst’ play “Herr Paul” about – after seeing the show signed by Radu Afrim – it should be said the play is an admirable exposure of the effects a crash between generations can produce. The play was written in 1992 and it has been translated in many languages until Victor Scoradet signed the Romanian version.

And for a while you can do it. You have time for these, for a period. In Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat, Mark Ravenhill deposits a humanity that lives its nightmare of physical and psychical bombing with a shivering intensity. The vulnerability’s extrication is done at the price of subjecting the epidermis to continuous shocks as if each body is connected to the anti-protection shield or to cable of an uninterrupted electrocution of the mind.

At the supermarket, a man lingers over the label of a tuna can that he was reading. She is bothered. She is in a hurry. She thinks of asking him politely to stand aside. She is angry and before having time to find her words, she hits him with the can on the head, fast and efficiently. Afterwards, she wants to be forgiven for her reckless behaviour by surrounding herself with art, but tough luck, the cab driver goes in the opposite direction from where the museum is. Scandal! The cab driver kicks her out of the car.

The nominations for The UNITER Awards were publicized on February 22. On the same day, in the morning, the nominations for The Gopo Awards, the prizes of the Romanian cinematography, were revealed. Nobody noticed(not even the nominee himself up to a point) that a name appeared on both lists. Modest and hard working the actor that walks on the wire between the theatre and the film, while being impeccable in both arts, is called Vlad Ivanov.

Beginning with the first moment of this experience, the spectator becomes aware that something is being prepared for him. Even before climbing the stairs to the newly opened studio of the Hungarian Theater in Cluj, they are asked to cover their shoes, the way it happens in some museums or churches. From that moment on, the „preparation” begins...