"Caféneaua Pirandello", a show directed by Mihai Măniuțiu based on texts by Luigi Pirandello, will be performed again at the "Regina Maria" Theatre on January 31st, starting at 7 pm. The production, lively, playful and colorful, is being re-run after many months, so it's the perfect opportunity for viewers who missed it so far to see it.

”"Pirandello's Café" is not a classic story, with exposition, content and conclusion, as it says in the Romanian textbook. It is more like a series of events – some bizarre or unexpected – that you would witness if you were to sit on a bench in the park for a whole day. Or at a café. Even if the world seems trivial to you and you are not interested in trifles, there will still be something to attract your attention. It's exactly like in that anecdote... "In a café a gentleman sits and quietly drinks a coffee. He doesn't have a laptop, he doesn't have a smartphone, he doesn't have an iPad. He sits like that, like a psychopath..."”

Well, in Măniuțiu's show you don't exactly find psychopaths, but some "characters", which are more or less strange, keep haunting you. The tired client, the Man with the Flower in his Mouth, some Prostitutes, some Clowns, all kinds of circus performers who do all sorts of mischief. Dances, little gags, more tender or more blunt interactions, some "slides" like looking through the keyhole or like the fragments of dreams that remain in your memory in the morning, these are the "ingredients" of this creepy show.

The secret is that you shouldn't watch "Café Pirandello" with the eyes of a "good" spectator, who wants to remain with a "morality". No way. You should watch this show like a man sitting at a cafe table, who wanders his gaze from one corner to another, registering with interest or curiosity or just intrigue some fragments of miscellaneous fact. It's true, a miscellaneous fact that is stranger, more dreamlike, more mischievous than in everyday reality.

A team of handpicked professionals contributed to the show: director Mihai Măniuțiu, choreographer Andrea Gavriliu, set designers Adrian Damian and Luiza Enescu, musician Mihai Dobre. And the characters will be almost all the actors from "Regina Maria", all of them very cheerful.

”"Café Pirandello" will be open on January 31. Find tickets at the "Regina Maria" Theatre Agency from Tuesday to Friday between 12:00 and 18:00, and on weekends between 10:00 and 13:00. You can also purchase tickets one hour before the show or online at www.biletmaster.ro.

For additional information and ticket reservations, please call: 0372/368.475

Claudiu Groza

Press office of the Regina Maria Theatre