„"Those Who Don't Forget..." is not a simple theater performance. It is an experience that makes you responsible for the collective past, another dimension of our recent history. It is a performance that forces you to keep your soul and eyes wide open for one of the most impressive theatrical experiences.

„"Those Who Don't Forget..." is not about a simplistic event, but about what we know happened in the communist camps. It is a wake-up call for generations who must not forget the thousands of people who died in prisons.

The show is built from poems written in communist prisons, between 1948 and 1964, and director Gavriil Pinte says that it was no coincidence that he chose a script based on verses from a transitional period in Romanian literature. "Poetry remains the religion of my theater," he declared.

The emotions begin from the first steps you take towards the theater. The long, dark corridor, the security officers with fierce looks, the morbid decor… all form a depressing prologue, which makes you aware that we all bear the responsibility of a cruel reality on our shoulders. It is a physical and spiritual journey at the same time. An itinerary of suffering in which you automatically become a living witness to a history that must not be forgotten.

„"Those Who Don't Forget..." is a show where the curtain doesn't rise, where there's no room for applause. It's just an exposure of a cruel reality... Because the past must not be forgotten.

„"Our show starts from poems composed in communist prisons between 1948-64 and the proletarian (pseudo)poetry of that period, the most terrible bifurcation of Romanian literature. Poetry remains the religion of my theater. The script also includes fragments of interviews, diary fragments, memoirs of detention, statements by some of those who suffered in prisons, as well as documents of the Securitate...

We do not do documentary theater, nor political theater. I believe that theater has never solved any political or social problem. Theater can, possibly, create analogies in the spiritual area. Or not. We do not have the naivety to believe that as a result of this show some former torturer, some Securitate scoundrel, some scoundrel – will demand to be tried, convicted. I declare and admit that I am one of those who believe that art corrects the… righteous.” (Gavriil Pinte)

A traveling show, theater in an unconventional space, created according to a script by Gavriil Pinte.

WITH (in alphabetical order):

Andreea Gabor, Alina Leonte, Mirela Lupu, Anca Sigmirean, Angela Tanko, Anda Tamasanu, Dania Tinca, Denisa Vlad, Ion Abrudan, Serban Borda, Ciprian Ciuciu, Tiberiu Covaci, Andrei Fazecaș, Andrei Gliga, Sorin Ionescu, Igor Lungu, Sebastian Lupu, Eugen Neag, Ion Ruscut, Alexandru Rusu, Emil Sauciuc, Alin Stanciu, Radu Tudor, Razvan Vicoveanu

Orchestra: Petru Popa, Dumitru Negrean, Sorin Costache, Gheorghe Cabuta, Nicu Moldovan, Eduard Albina

Art direction and musical illustration: Gavriil Pinte

Scenography: Roxana Ionescu

Premiere date: June 14, 2013

Festivals:

• Short Theatre Festival, 19th edition – FITO 2013, Oradea

Awards and nominations:

• Special Jury Prize – Short Theatre Festival – FITO 2013 – Oradea, September 2013

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