A screenplay by Mihai Măniuţiu, based on Interviews with Primo Levi
Translation: Anca Măniuţiu

Artistic director: Mihai Măniuţiu
Sets: Valentin Codoiu
Costumes: Iuliana Vîlsan
Musical direction: W. Vilan Gyuri
Dances: Vava Ştefănescu
Premiere date: 04.12.2004

„"Shoah. Primo Levi's Version" is an adaptation by director Mihai Măniuţiu based on a series of interviews with Primo Levi, one of the most prominent Italian writers of the 20th century and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. "Shoah" means Holocaust, and the play turns into a shocking testimony of one of the greatest horrors of humanity. Primo Levi is so marked by the absurdity of this stain on human history that he does not have the strength to hate the guilty. He realizes the futility of any attempt to change destiny when he fails to save children from a miniature train, in which he sees the trains of death again. The sometimes aggressive presences of the three reporters are contrasted with the tragedy evoked by the performance of sacred Jewish songs on stage. The play takes the form of a dream in which the past in the form of Levi's memories meets the future symbolized by the children; but it is a dream unfolding on the edge of a nightmare, the spectacle of the consciousness of a man who has the power to remain human to the end.

Distribution:

Primo Levi:  Marian Ralea
Reporters:  Dorin Presecan, Suzana Macovei, Mariana Presecan
The Bat:  Petre Panait
Jewish choir:  Ileana Iurciuc, Mariana Neagu, Angela Tanko, Mirela Nita Lupu, Corina Cernea, Mirela Jurca, Anca Opris, Corina Szatmari, Doru Firte, George Voinese, Sebastian Lupu, Serban Borda, Andrian Locovei, Pavel Sarghi, Sebastian Lakatos, Stefan Lakatos
Children:  Petra Szabo, Loredana Denisa Fodor, Alexandra Ramona Fodor, Madalina Roxana Fodor, Tihamér Macovei
Jewish Orchestra: W. Vilan Gyuri, Gavril Ardelean, Petre Boros

Technical director: Ofelia Fîrte
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Sorin Precup, Sandor Attila Nagy, Iosif Balogh
Sound: Sorin Domide