Poetry Theater – Marin Sorescu Show
Screenplay: Elisabeta Pop and Petre Panait

Artistic direction, scenography and soundtrack: Ioan Ieremia
Premiere date: May 19, 1989

The one-man-show recital "Sunday people don't have nicknames" represents an incursion into the world of the Oltenia village made through a selection of poems from the four volumes of the "La Lilieci" cycle by Marin Sorescu. It is a show full of humor, zest for life, joy and seriousness, made up of a succession of anecdotes, varying in registers, from sad to comical burlesque. The anecdotes, "little scenes of timeless rurality, in a certain Romanian space" (Valentin Silvestru), shed light, with emotion, on the joys and sorrows of the peasants, their picturesque portraits, the wisdom of the country man - in a word, a colorful human universe. Marin Sorescu's peasants are good-natured, incognito philosophers. They scrutinize everything and ask themselves questions. Their concept of life is clear: here "and here", after death there is beyond, that is, the "other-world". At Lilieci, meaning at the cemetery, the hill with tombs of Bulzeşti, the two worlds meet.

Interpret:  Petre Panait

Technical director: Mariana Goina
Lighting: Mihai Constantin, Iosif Balogh
Sound: Stelian Panea, Sorin Domide