Text taken from Family Magazine | author: Alexandru Jurcan

The snows of yesteryear are coming back, but the teenagers of yesteryear have dissipated in the labyrinth of inventions, taking advantage of scientific advances. Social networks, artificial intelligence. Goodbye, walks in nature, socializing under the sun! The virtual has won, like an evil drug. The reverse of focusing on the internet shows a pitiful tumble towards all kinds of dysfunctions. What does a necessary show mean, an explosive SOS? Exactly the premiere at the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea, that is awakening by Doru Vatavului, directed by Bobi Pricop. Assistant director: Mihai Gligan. A show dedicated to teenagers. Towards understanding, reorientation, awakening.

Text taken from Várad Magazine | author: Fried Noémi Lujza

show „"The Awakening"” was presented on January 17 and 18 by the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea. The production, directed by Bobi Pricop based on a contemporary text by Doru Vatavlui, was followed, each time, by discussions between the creators and the audience.

The show has a double cast, so at the Sunday performance we saw, actor Sorin Ionescu addressed the audience before the start, warning that the play's language is vulgar and contains many English expressions — exactly as teenagers speak today. However, during the show, there are also moments that are more shocking than the vulgarity...

Text taken from LiterNet.ro | author: Cristina Smadea

To wake up... means to wake up from a night or day sleep, from a dream, from an illusion, from a state of laziness, from drunkenness, to understand what is happening around you or with you, opening the eyes of the body, mind, and soul.

We, humans, are dreamers by nature, consciously and unconsciously, and dreams are, very often, the result of our more or less hidden thoughts, of desires crammed into a pocket of the heart or a drawer of the mind. What separates us from animals is precisely this awakening, as an understanding of the meaning of the word MAN, and the result of this understanding is respect and love for your fellow human beings. Otherwise, we become beasts.

Text taken from Várad Magazine | author: Fried Noémi Lujza

It is clear that director Timofey Kulyabin, playwright Roman Dolzhansky and set designer Oleg Golovko have substantially intervened on Arthur Miller's drama "Broken Glass", and the music composed by Timofei Pastukhov proves excellent for maintaining high tension even during the short transitions between scenes. The connection between the Russian creators in European exile due to their anti-war positions and the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea was made by Raluca Rădulescu, the translator of the play. The result of the collaboration, the performance "Broken Mirror" by the Iosif Vulcan Troupe, was presented to the public for the first time on November 16, on the main stage of the Oradea theater. In fact, the American playwright's play was translated into Hungarian by Tamás Ungvári under the title "Üvegcserepek".

Text taken from LiterNet.ro

Razvan Rocas: „"Things I Know to be True" is a text that comes from a dramaturgy that is perhaps less explored in our country: Australian dramaturgy. How did you arrive at this text? What do you find most appealing from a directorial point of view?
Vlad Balan: I was familiar with Andrew Bovell's playwriting. I saw a show in Ploiești a few days ago, When will the rain stop?; it was directed by Radu Afrim. I also saw a dissertation performance based on this text and, somehow, it stuck in my mind. Initially, in our discussions with Vichi (Victoria Balint – interim manager of the Regina Maria Theatre), we had another plan; we had to make a dramatization based on a novel. It was a complicated situation with the rights and in the end I ended up making other proposals. I remembered this text and said to myself to read it – I only had the impression of the dissertation performance I had seen. I read it and I know that it struck me from the first moment, I sent it to him and said „This is what I think it is!”. It was a perfect fit: and Bobi Pricop said „Yes, I support it” immediately – he already knew the text. I had great support in this sense and it seemed appropriate to me also because I have the feeling that it is a fairly classic text, in terms of structure, at the story level. It's a text that deals with this generation gap and does so with great wisdom, without passing judgment. It seems to me that we live in a moment where we are polarizing in two directions – conservative and progressive. Usually, that's what I look for: texts that position themselves in the gray area.

Text taken from LiterNet.ro | author: Răzvan Rocaș

We live in a time when everything that happens around us seems to push us into polemics with those around us. We often discover that what we thought we knew about these people is, in fact, erroneous. In such moments, we need something that gives us the certainty that things or people dear to us will remain unchanged, as we remember them. These landmarks instill in us a necessary sense of security. It's just that it is precisely in the midst of them that the most brutal changes can occur, forcing us to make drastic decisions.