Cabaret by Mircea Chirilă, in collaboration with the Deva State Theater

Artistic director: Daniel Vulcu
Scenography: Oana Cernea
Choreography: Anamaria Kiss
Premiere date: December 7, 2002

 „"With allusion, of course, to the well-known ... "English patient", the author of the script of this Cabaret, Mircea Chirilă (…), imagines a series of funny incidents, of course, related to the absolutely special fate of the „Romanian patient”. In fact, the Romanian, as the author sees him, is a perpetual patient, no matter in what field he works, „activates” or … is treated. The precious idea, as we all feel it, and the journalist feels it even more acutely, would be that, in a sick world like ours, we are all miserable patients. And if we get the idea to go to the hospital, we will show up at the hospital gate with a bag full of everything we would need there: medicines, plates, cutlery, cotton wool, syringes, diapers, etc. And, last but not least, the money destined for bribes, the tips that everyone expects, from the doorman to the doctors (the director's nice idea, by the way, was to bring in a doctor in a lab coat whose pockets are compartmentalized for dollars and lei, and even for euros, a brand-new pocket).

The author doesn't miss anything: health, customs, education, bribes, compromises, NATO, Roma, with the obligatory gypsies, alcohol, drugs, the stark poverty of pensioners (two elderly brothers take turns going out for a walk and waiting in line, having only one prosthesis, which they both wear), subsidized medicines, etc.

 (…) The show amuses and not only that: because – as political jokes used to do in the past – it makes you think: are these us, sir? These!” (Elisabeta Pop in „Teatrul azi”, no. 3-4-5/2003)

In distribution: 

Paula Chirila
Linda Gyorgy
Petre Ghimbasan
Daniel Vulcu
Adi Matioc
Alexander Rusu
Richard Balint
Serban Borda

Technical director: Ofelia Fîrte
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lights: Sorin Precup, Sándor Attila Nagy
Sound: Cristian Segărceanu