by Sergi Belbel
Translation: Delia Prodan

Artistic direction: Claudiu Goga
Scenography: Ramona Ingrid Macarie
Light design and soundtrack: Claudiu Goga
Premiere date: 23.09.2006

The action of the play "After the Rain" takes place on the terrace of a 49-story skyscraper, the headquarters of several companies. The pretext for the characters' meeting in this special place is the ban on smoking inside the building. The terrace is, thus, the secret place where, from secretaries to bosses, everyone comes secretly to defy the bans and smoke the holy cigarette. By placing the characters under the sign of permanent danger, Sergi Belbel reveals all the small things that exist in human relationships, especially in situations of power, the difficulty of communicating, the loneliness of each one. Therefore, the terrace gradually becomes a place of projections. Dreams of murder or suicide follow scenes of flirtation. Only the rain, which has not fallen for two years, will free the characters from their own dryness, absence of sensitivity or heart. A storm breaks out at the end, the pace accelerates, between thunder and lightning, passions are unleashed in a happy ending, however unrealistic.

Distribution:

The blonde secretary:  Ioana Dragos Gajdo
Brunette secretary:  Adela Lazar
The redheaded secretary:  Angela Tanko
The brown-haired secretary:  Elvira Platon Rîmbu
Executive Director:  Suzana Macovei
The programmer:  Petre Ghimbasan
Administrative head:  Sebastian Wolf
Local courier:  Andrian Locovei
Angels:  Mirela Nita Lupu, Mihaela Gherdan, Lucia Rogoz, Ion Ruscut, Pavel Sirghi

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Sorin Precup, Sandor Attila Nagy, Iosif Balogh
Sound: Sorin Domide, Adrian Gherdan