„"Those Who Don't Forget..." is not a simple theater performance. It is an experience that makes you responsible for the collective past, another dimension of our recent history. It is a performance that forces you to keep your soul and eyes wide open for one of the most impressive theatrical experiences.

„"Those Who Don't Forget..." is not about a simplistic event, but about what we know happened in the communist camps. It is a wake-up call for generations who must not forget the thousands of people who died in prisons.

The show is built from poems written in communist prisons, between 1948 and 1964, and director Gavriil Pinte says that it was no coincidence that he chose a script based on verses from a transitional period in Romanian literature. "Poetry remains the religion of my theater," he declared.

The emotions begin from the first steps you take towards the theater. The long, dark corridor, the security officers with fierce looks, the morbid decor… all form a depressing prologue, which makes you aware that we all bear the responsibility of a cruel reality on our shoulders. It is a physical and spiritual journey at the same time. An itinerary of suffering in which you automatically become a living witness to a history that must not be forgotten.

Cultural-artistic-philosophical-spiritual show

The REGINA MARIA Theater in Oradea invites you to the first meeting with the guests of director Radu Vaida, the host of a unique cultural-artistic-philosophical-spiritual show, which will bring every month, on the stage of the Oradea theater and in dialogue with the audience here, personalities of the cultural life in Romania, in an attempt to restore and celebrate the most important spiritual and moral values, according to which a healthy society should function.

The first guests of the show INTERNAL DIALOGUES will be the famous theater and film actor, Mircea Diaconu, and the well-known actress of the Oradea stage, Ioana Dragoş Gajdo, who will answer the challenges launched by the moderator, but also by the spectators, active participants in this unique show and whose questions will be transmitted to the guests, with charm and grace by Alina Leonte, actress of the REGINA MARIA Theater. "Profound, concrete, unique and positive" themes will be discussed, accompanied by the harmonies of the VARADINUM quartet from Oradea and accompanied by the paintings of the artist Diana Gabriela Gavrilaş, who will also present her exhibition entitled "Italian Gardens" on this occasion.

after sketches by IL Caragiale

The show AT "IUNION", BIRJAR!, proposed by Daniel Vulcu, attempts to reconstruct the atmosphere of the 1900s, through the texts of the eternal Caragiale. The atmosphere at the "Iunion" terrace with the music and dances of those times will be found in a cheerful cabaret show, pigmented with live music and magic acts, which can only be to everyone's taste.

With a bittersweet smile, we notice each time, as if in a breach in time or as if in a merciless mirror, the lucidity of the writer through his timelessness. The same world, the same turmoil, manifested only under a different appearance, make Caragiale an immortal writer, and the collage of 12 sketches comes to support this statement.

We all wait for luck to smile at us once in our lives. Many of us, week after week, believe in lucky numbers and hope that maybe, just maybe, our numbers will be drawn. We plan in advance what to do with the money we win: how we will spend it, who we will give it to and how we will manage. The play PRAH is about a couple who gamble their luck on such a lottery. But it seems that it is easier to dream than to enjoy the big jackpot, at least that is what the two protagonists who are lucky will do. They do not know what to do with the money that has fallen from the sky, because they cannot forget the past and cannot enjoy the present. They do not know what to do, but while they are thinking and planning, the winning ticket is sitting in a safe place, in a box of Cacao Praf (PRAH means PRAF in Croatian), brought from a trip they made a long time ago in Yugoslavia.

by William Shakespeare

Written near Christmas 1600, Twelfth Night, like many other Shakespearean comedies, is based on the confusion of the identities of some characters. Viola and Sebastian, twin brothers, escape from a shipwreck, but neither knows what happened to the other's fate. Viola disguises herself as a boy to get a job as a page at the court of Duke Orsino. From here on, a series of comic situations arise. The characters are amusing. We sense that nothing serious will happen in the end, despite all the unexpected events. All the confusions will be resolved and the play will end in a perfect balance of harmony and love.

dramatization by Radu Macrinici after Ion Budai-Deleanu

Dedicated to the two hundredth anniversary of the writing of ŢIGANIADA, the show based on Ion Budai-Deleanu's famous epic is part of the series of great shows based on classical texts. Benefiting from a dramatization by Radu Macrinici, winner of two UNITER awards for dramaturgy, the Oradea theater's show is not only a restitution of a legendary text but also a transposition to the present time of the delicious adventures that Ion Budai-Deleanu's gypsies experience on their way to search for an illusory country. Music, dance and especially acting performances complete this picturesque picture and make ŢIGANIADA one of the most important events of this season.

by Samuel Beckett

Originally written in French, then translated into English by the author himself, the play "End of the Game" draws a parallel between the final stage of a chess game, when the result is already known, and the last stages of life.

The play centers on four characters who live cloistered in a space outside of which nothing remains, as if after an apocalypse. Hamm, blind and helpless, is confined to a wheelchair; his servant or son, Clov, is in a state of perpetual agitation, in permanent conflict with Hamm, unable to calm down or go elsewhere, to free himself. Alongside the two, who remain together for incomprehensible reasons, Nagg and Nell, Hamm's parents, live their lives in garbage cans. Their only happiness is the memory of the past; dehumanized and dependent on Clov, they seem incapable of understanding the present outside of the suffering they are experiencing.

Thus, a small world with its own laws, with a cyclical existence, is shaped, in which the characters are trapped in an eternal routine. Death seems imminent and yet the characters' discussions are empty, banal, conveying nothing. In the good tradition of the theater of the absurd, language is not used for the purpose of communication, but disaggregates, is eccentric and sterile.

The play has no authentic ending, neither in a dramatic nor interpretative sense, but remains open. No one wins the game, which will be resumed, in identical terms, the next day.

Performance in collaboration with the Pygmalion Theater in Vienna*

Martin is a successful manager, who lives between business meetings, with his phone to his ear, his Rolex on his wrist but with an empty heart. If he's going to spend money to be with a woman, she has to be a professional, she certainly has to be the best in her field. Stefan's recommendation – his best friend – is Maria – the ultimate solution.

So, Martin has reached the woman who takes everything that doesn't matter to him (clothes or phones), leaving him with only the money needed to pay for her services. Suddenly, we have a woman who listens to him, understands him and most importantly, sees through the lie that is, in fact, Martin's life. It is clear from his suffering what his views are about the world around him and the way things are.

Then he falls in love with her and believes, in turn, that he is loved. But is the payment for Maria's "services" enough?

by Line Knutzon

Published in 1999, Line Knutzon's play "Snart Komen Tiden" (The Time Will Come Soon) marked an important point in the Danish playwright's career, achieving a resounding success in the adaptation by Dr. Dantes Aveny Theatre in Copenhagen.

The play is more about married life than youth, unlike most of Knutzon's writings, "At 20, you chase a bunch of dreams, but at some point, you realize that you've fulfilled them all... and you have nothing left to dream about. So you wake up to reality now, a terrible shock: what's next? You might be afraid of death... Which begins to make its presence felt, becoming more and more oppressive."

Rebekka and Hilbert's married life is long over. They should probably get a divorce. Although it seems like no time has passed, they suddenly find themselves with children. Hilbert hired a housekeeper, Oda, as a gift for Rebekka, so that she would have time to have time. Oda introduces herself as the descendant of a childless family... Rebekka fears that Oda has come to kill her and her husband, but despite this, she orders the housekeeper to prepare her 55th birthday party, to which Micuta, the couple's daughter, is also expected. Even Rebekka's ex-boyfriend, John, shows up, along with his fiancée Ingrid. Micuta shows up, but surprise: she's 50!

by Vasilii Sigariev

The text by Vasilii Sigariev, a young Russian writer, tells the story of two guards working in a tram depot. On the shift of Dima, a student who took this job to study for college, Gleb, the guard from the other shift, appears, who comes with a drink and a desire for stories. Gleb tells him about life as a night guard, and even tells him the tragic history of the depot: the one whose shift Dima had taken died in an accident, and his wife, Olia, has since gone crazy. Any man who wears Vova's glasses, the dead man, will be seen by Olia as her husband.

Phantom Pains It is a hallucinatory and moving story about love and madness, tenderness and hope.

by Peter Shaffer

„A couple of years ago, one weekend, I was driving down a country road with a friend. We passed a stable and suddenly he remembered an unusual crime he had recently heard about at a dinner party in London. He knew only one detail – horrible – and the whole story lasted less than a minute, but it aroused an intense fascination in me. The act had been committed a few years earlier by a troubled young man. It deeply shocked the local magistrates. And in the end, no rational explanation could be found.” (Peter Shaffer, prologue to the play EQUUS)

Horse (1973) is a play written by English playwright Peter Shaffer, and is the story of a psychiatrist who tries to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write Horse after hearing about a shocking incident: a 17-year-old boy blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. The playwright built a fictional history of the possible causes of the incident, without knowing any other details about it. The plot of the play is similar to a detective story, in which psychiatrist Martin Dysart tries to understand the causes of the boy's actions, while struggling with conflicting feelings about his personal life.