AUNTIE AND ME

by Morris Panych

DIRECTED BY: Michael Devine; TRANSLATION: Wolfgang Ernst and Ioana Cuiban; SCENOGRAPHY: Alin Gavrilă; CAST: Pali Vecsei, Gabriela Neagu

duration: 1h

tickets price: 20 lei / 15 lei

Auntie and Me is the story of a solitary young man. He is anxious for the death of a silent and gloomy old lady whom he believes to be his aunt and he is wasting his time with stories and memories on death. According to critic Benedict Nightingale of The Times, the impression of “outburst of laughter for the hopeless masochists on their way to The Netherlands with herds of suicidal” is diminished by the suggestion that “months of watch at one’s bedside trigger a link even between a silent aunt and the young man who desperately built a machine for euthanizing, something like Heath Robinson, to speed up the aunt’s ending.”