by Alexandr Ghelman
Translation: Tudor Steriade

Direction and scenography: Sergiu Savin
Musical illustration: István Gyöngyösi
Premiere date: April 6, 1985

„"In a Park... on a Bench" can be considered an original and modern love story, between two people whose destinies meet, apparently by chance, in a park, on a bench, at sunset. The play is constituted as a succession of confessions, a game of masks with fragments of truth and as much fiction as possible, through which the two try to establish a communion, explore paths of understanding, of deep connections. Their dialogue is also an ethical debate, marked by helplessness, violence and hopelessness.

SHE wants urgently and desperately to relieve her loneliness, but she tries to meet her partner and ideal of fulfillment in the park, the favorite place of party people looking for adventures. And HE is alone, does not know the warmth of a home, has no friends, nor moral support. He invents sad biographies, meant to impress women, themselves incapable of discerning the truth. HE seeks and cultivates loneliness, even in a two-hour date-adventure. That is why HER dreams of marital harmony, stability, fidelity and certainties do not awaken in HIM the expected effect. Moreover, neither of them mentions love, the only way in which the possible couple would access happiness. In the park, in the shadows of the night, everything seems possible, but at sunrise, in the light of reality?…

Distribution:

It:  Cristina Schiopu
He:  Ion Tomorrow

Technical director: Mărioara Goina
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Valentin Bodonea