by Denc Serban Codrin
Absolute premiere

Artistic direction and musical illustration: Mihai Lungeanu
Scenography: Vioara Bara
Premiere date: April 1993

 „"In a dilated time, certainly one of the apocalypse, in a space let's call it, defining it also through time, nocturnal, anyway a space "neither alive nor dead", seven women, seven grotesque masks, seven (and not coincidentally seven, right?) primordial women postpone death, deceive it, lead it by the nose, if perhaps they are long dead and what we see is only the illusion of their past lives. If what all these former, former ... and former "flowers" have experienced could even be called life.

So, under the sign of the apocalypse, the seven manly women dream their unlived or secretly lived dreams, their virgin dreams, they live their last illusions, among which the one related to love, to IONEL remains the most popular. Like a children's game: the game of love... They, the old women, produce an endless mess, obsessed with FEAR, with the paralyzing fear that IONEL might disappear too... And then they would have nothing left... Between two or ninety-nine coffees, sweeter or more bitter, apparently "devoted" lives have been consumed, "courageous" destinies of reliable companions, with "responsible jobs". How could the ceremony of coffee, in the dregs of which they especially guess their past, these pitiful beings, failed wrecks, haunted by moral and biological misery, be anything but comical? (…)

WHO is IONEL? The seducer. Or maybe obsession, unconsummated love, illusion, liberation, chimera or DEATH. Ultimately, it's still a liberation. The essential one.

Who is IONEL? Let us answer, like BECKETT about GODOT. We have no idea. If we knew, we would have said so.” (Elisabeta Pop, in the program of the show).

Distribution:

Daisy:  Simona Constantinescu
Carnation:  Ileana Iurciuc
Pansy:  Elvira Plato
Flower:  Mariana Neagu
Violet:  Mariana Presecan
Lily of the valley:  Mariana Vasile
Dahlia:  Petre Panait

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu, Corina Moga
Lighting: Vasile Blejan, Balogh Iosif, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide

AWARDS:
-Play awarded with the First Prize at the 1992 Drama Competition, Oradea