Text taken from Contributors.ro / author: Mircea Morariu

Theater Queen Mary from Oradea has recently enriched its repertoire with a new, good and exciting show called Rabbit Hole. It is based on a skillfully written play by the American David-Lindsay Abaire. Who, after being rewarded for it in 2007 with the prestigious Pulitzer (Abaire also received other awards), he turned it into a film script. A 2011 film that was released in our country under the rather uninspired title Awakening to reality. Film directed by John Cameron Mitchell and which brought Nicole Kidman, who was a perfect fit for the female lead role, a nomination for Oscar.

Text taken from Contributors.ro / author: Mircea Morariu

Under the title of a famous American film starring Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer and Christopher Reeve, a film that miraculously arrived on Romanian screens in the suffocating, practically hopeless 1980s, the Theatre Queen Mary from Oradea offered its spectators the opportunity to see a performance of the play Almost, Maine of John Cariani.

I will not attempt to explain the reason for the change of title in the following. I will only note that the stories in the 8 modules of the show take place in an indefinite time, but the place where they are consumed is specified as clearly as possible. That is, Maine, a rather bizarre locality, with a society and social life that are not exactly organized, located where the map is pinned.

Text taken from ancazaharia.ro / author: Anca Zaharia

After my move from Brașov to Oradea, I didn't regret anything, but I often said that I missed theater, so I started the project of familiarizing myself with this world in the city where my new home is. As you know if you've read me before and as you're finding out now if you haven't, I share what I like and I think others might like it or, on the contrary, cause change in those whom it can put, from the comfortable seat in the hall, in not-so-comfortable positions, with the potential to generate some reflections as a glimmer of hope for self-education and tolerance. 

Because it seems vital to me that we draw some conclusions that will make us at least a little more decent people, not just remain passive and giddy consumers of any cultural, artistic or entertainment product. If you want and can, or at least want to be able to, you have something useful to learn from Las Fierbinți (which Diana, my colleague from GOLAN Magazine, wrote about, here) and from some show with love islands or parent swaps. Okay, for this you need some skills that we don't really learn in the traditional educational environment, because God forbid the child interprets something according to his own mind and doesn't babble the eternal comments learned by heart from grandma's collection of comments.

Text taken from bookhub.ro / author: Oana Cosma

In 1973, even for the French, homosexual concubinage was a taboo subject. Jean Poiret, author The cage of the mad he knew this when he took over the idea from 1966 of a British man and developed it in an original way in his own play; he himself played one of the two homosexuals (Georges, the director of the cabaret shows with transvestites at the nightclub he owned with his partner for more than a decade). Even today, in 2023, the subject is not approached openly, lightly, not even in communities where homosexuals exist. Accepting sexual minorities represents a great challenge for many of us, but members of this minority also struggle with their own prejudices: the shame of being part of a "blamed" minority, the doubt that torments some of them their whole lives: are they really homosexual or not?; the precariousness and uncertainty of a stable daily life generate real dramas among them. Jean Poiret, as a man of the theater, a consummate artist, did not set out to play the moralizing wolf, but simply to bring a sensitive subject before the audience, in a constructive, funny, comical manner. I think the result surprised even Poiret himself: The cage of fools It is performed in many countries, over and over again, perhaps because, being so well written, it allows the lines to be adapted according to the specifics of the country or place where it is performed, as well as the names and features of some of the characters.