MOROI
by Cătălin Ștefănescu (O noapte, O înmormîntare, Un interviu, Un cioban, Un cap) and Ada Milea (Un bloc)
DIRECTED BY: Alexandru Dabija
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR: Bogdan Sărătean
SCENOGRAPHY: Dragos Buhagiar
ASSITANT TO THE SCENOGRAPHER: Irina Chirila; SONGS: Ada Milea
TEXT: Cătălin Ștefănescu și Ada Milea
CAST: Dana Talos, Cristina Ragos, Serenela Muresan, Cendana Trifan, Ema Vetean, Fatma Mohamed, Veronica Arizancu, Arina Trif, Adrian Matioc, Marius Turdeanu, Mihai Coman, Cristian Stanca, Ioan Paraschiv, Eduard Patrascu, Liviu Vlad, Vlad Robas, Alexandru Malaicu, Raj-Alexandru Udrea
duration: 1h 50min
There is always a sort of a game, more or less serious, between “on the other side” and “on this side”. Depending on the ways people see the world, wherever they would can be, they imagine possible maps of the journeys between life and death. The more unkown is the territory which requires a map, the more creative is the imagination of the cartographers. Nobody escapes from the exercise of this personal geography. And, because this exercise can`t be skiped, and because is complusory, it becames the only `Olympic game` everyone take part in. Unbelievable! So might be called in any way, but no race. However, this is the most disputed competition. And when they realize what they are doing, people stop, laugh, cry and tell stories.
Among many others, I owe entirely to Alexandru Dabija the fascinating experience to write texts for theater performances. For this text, I owe to Laura Jiga Iliescu, from the “Constantin Brăiloiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy, the experience of reading a bunch of books which speak about how are seen from here the paths between „on the other side” and „on this side”.
Cătălin Ștefănescu
The text with urban phantoms appeared accidentally, after a discussion with Mr. Dabija and some meetings with a strange old lady. The songs…last summer, between readings about ghosts and stories with sprits. I love “the hearth choking humor” that the show proposes. The cackles aren`t disturbed by the presence of the coffins, but death is present and allows us many, because, anyway, the final “joke” belongs to her.
Ada Milea
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