Text taken from Family Magazine / author: Alexandru Jurcan

The following situation is becoming classic: children gone to other countries, sick single parents, benevolent neighbors, foreigners paid to take care of them... Here is an extremely current, hot, painful theme. Simona Mihuțiu, a renowned oncologist from Oradea, addressed such a problem in the play Speranța nu aucă nievești con elevatul.

Text taken from LiterNet.ro / author: Mihai Brezeanu

Prologue

"Chronicle". With this word it begins Richard III staged by Andrei Măjeri at the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea (premiere April 5, 2025). Richard III by William Shakespeare, translated by Horia Gîrbea, with inserts from Henry VI by the same William Shakespeare. For greater precision, with insertions of Henry VI Part III, the text which, together with the first two parts of Henry VI and with Richard III, form the so-called Minor Tetralogy of Shakespeare. A set of 4 texts dedicated to the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485), fought between the House of Lancaster (the red rose) and the House of York (the white rose, so to speak).

Text taken from familymagazine.ro / author: Alexandru Jurcan

The premiere of the end of the year 2024 at the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea: Elif and the rain by Sami Ibrahim, directed by Alex Ianăși. A text about the condition of the always "illegal" immigrant, who is only worth as much as he can work, in a perfidious bureaucratic system. Elif is a woman who ends up in an economic dictatorship, preferring utopian tendencies that distance her from the fangs of reality. Her daughter, Lily, has a different perspective, beyond her mother's stories, managing to understand the cruel truth and their precarious condition, with a cynicism specific to her age.

Article taken from Contributors.ro / author: Mircea Morariu

I'll say it from the very beginning. Elif and the Rain from the Theater Queen Mary from Oradea, is far from a flawless show. Not everything we see on stage is perfectly valid and not absolutely original. There are obvious borrowings in the grammar of the staging both in terms of the directorial solutions related to the theme, the construction of the characters themselves (whose first appearances, with large, immense suitcases, cannot help but remind you of Silviu Purcărete's shows) and in terms of the sets and costumes, also from the same area. They are signed by Tania Gobejishvili. The frequent use of classic microphones, with stands, used to highlight dramatic situations or lines considered essential is not something very new either. The fashion, introduced into Romanian theater some time ago by Radu Afrim in his shows, has proliferated and is present in a consistent, perhaps even too consistent, number of productions.

Text taken from Contributors.ro / author: Mircea Morariu

In 2014, when in the offer of performances of an edition of the International Theatre Festival Interferences, organized by the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj-Napoca and its director, Tompa Gábor, the show with the play appeared An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen, the name of German director Thomas Ostermeier was not at all unknown to the Romanian public.

Something was also known about Nora, and about HamletThe latter came to us on the occasion of an edition of the Festival Shakespeare  created by Emil Boroghină at the National Theatre Marin Sorescu from Craiova. It was also known that Ostermeier was passionate about Ibsen's dramatic literature. Which he staged in its entirety and to which he dedicated substantial pages in his book Theater and fear which would also appear in Romanian in 2016, in the collection Yorick  of Bucharest publishing houses NemiraThe 2024 reissue of the book would be complemented by the appearance of two other books dedicated to the director from Schaubühne, one that also appeared at Nemira  (Thomas Ostermeier's Theater), the other (Backstage Ostermeier) at the Cultural Foundation Camil PetrescuAlso in 2024, Ostermeier staged on the stage of the National Theatre IL Caragiale the play show Hedda Gabler.

Article taken from LiterNet.ro / author: Liviu Ornea

A couple mourns their four-year-old son who died in a stupid accident: the dog ran into the street, a young man tries to avoid it and kills the child who had run after the dog. No one is to blame. It happens. Fate. Eight months after the accident, the parents have not recovered. Each reacts differently. They become estranged. The wife almost cultivates her pain and refuses to communicate with her husband, her sister and mother, her friends who, even they, do not know how to react, she becomes aggressive, accuses everyone of not understanding her pain. The husband tries group therapy, rejected sine die by his wife and has a small affair. In the end, they decide to sell the house (the wife's idea). She tries, not to start all over again, but at least to learn to live again.

Text taken from Contributors.ro / author: Mircea Morariu

Like the other eight previous editions, the ninth PHYTO, that is, to Oradea International Theatre Festival, held between June 1-9, organized by the Theatre Queen Mary, had two sections. One with a competitive character, the second reserved for guest performances.

The first section, the one in which a significant number of theaters have entered productions in the competition, intends to preserve the connection with tradition. More precisely, with Short Theatre Week, a festival created in 1976, thanks to the collaboration between the management of the Oradea State Theatre at the time and that of the magazine Family.