"This text is a manual on the rise of dictatorship in society, meticulously exemplifying the tropes of tyranny, a landscape play about dictators disguised as saviors. Richard, a prodigious criminal, narcissistic and violent, unleashes a mechanism of terror. Thus, the non-hero becomes, for a time, a leader. As now, perhaps in a hundred or a thousand years, Richard will continue to appear before the spectators, explaining to them step by step the forms of corruption in their own reality. And the spectators will watch with bated breath all the facts they have been warned about and will do nothing. They will promise themselves, perhaps, that the slippages they are experiencing will not be repeated. This is why we chose to imagine a scenic universe with no temporal definition.

"Hope Never Goes Up in the Elevator" brings to light a conflict that has become more acute in the context of today's world: that between the old world vs. the new world.
A single, elderly woman is placed in the care of two androids, specially programmed for this mission. However, the androids, at first, cannot fully understand the woman's needs, because their thinking is analytical and they cannot perceive the emotions and spiritual needs of their subject.
However, in the end, everyone benefits from this confrontation and there seems to be a trace of reconciliation between the two worlds.

"The text seems necessary to me precisely because we live in a society in which individualism is the main ethical imperative, in which the Other has no value except to the extent that it can represent a means to achieve profit. I chose this text because it presents the immigrant's condition from two perspectives. The personal, human one, of the fears, of the torture given by this situation in which it is < > to exist in a place, of love, of searching for a < >, of the ways in which Elif colors this alienating existence. And the other, which is the political perspective, of man who is only worth as much as he can produce. Of man as a tool of work and nothing more. And especially, of a bureaucratic system built to ensure that someone like Elif will never be able to obtain the rights necessary to overcome the condition of a simple tool of work, will never be able to live as a human being.” (Alex Ianăși)

Distribution:
Elif: Anda Tamasanu
Lily: Carina Bunea
Owner: Ioana Dragoș Gajdó
Son: George Dometi
Worker: Sorin Ionescu
Woman: Denisa Vlad
Policeman: Eugen Neag
Registrars: Corina Cernea, Angela Tanko, Giorgiana Coman, Mihaela Gherdan

Directed by: Alex Ianasi
Scenography: Tinatin Gobejishvili
Music: Ovidiu Iloc
Lighting Design: Vlad Lazarescu

Premiere date: December 21, 22, 2024
Show duration: 2h

Show recommended for people over 14 years old!

One of the masterpieces of silent cinema made by Charlie Chaplin is transformed into a lively and moving musical on the stage of the Regina Maria Theater.

The story is a simple one: Charlie Chaplin, a film director, while on the set giving a speech to his employees, learns some sad news. But this whole moment is interrupted by a kid, who is running from the police and asks the director to pretend to be his father. This is where the idea of a touching but humorous film starts, in which the protagonists are a poor glazier and an orphaned child, who go through all sorts of adventures together.

by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Vlad Cristache

In a parallel universe, everything is wonderful and things happen as they should. In this universe, a child runs after a dog, then returns to play in the living room.

In another universe, a collective butterfly effect is created where someone forgets an open door, someone answers the phone, someone is in a hurry and everyone, for a split second, does not anticipate what is about to happen… and the dog returns on its own. An accident occurs, an absurd accident, for which everyone and no one is to blame at the same time. And the healing process is a difficult one, which takes place on a personal and interpersonal level as well.

Rabbit Hole is a moving psychological drama, cleverly constructed around the idea of loss and the survival mechanisms people adopt in the slow process of healing. It is a warm story of acceptance, strength and transformation.

Distribution:
Becca – Alina Leonte
Howie – Razvan Vicoveanu
Izzy – Giorgiana Coman
Nat – Gabriela Codrea
Jason – Tudor Manea
Taz – Rare*

Artistic direction: Vlad Cristache
Scenography: Andreea Tecla
*Trainer: Alexandru Bondar

Premiere date: April 7, 2024
Show duration: 2h

Show not recommended for people under 14 years old!

Strobe lights are used during the show, which may affect people with epilepsy or sensitivity to this type of light.

A strange transaction is about to take place.
The ad has been distributed and a candidate has already emerged who seems to meet the most important conditions mentioned. No one knows exactly how to proceed in a situation like this, but attempts are being made to work out the details so that all parties involved are satisfied. The chances that everything will go according to plan are high, if the emotional aspect and the complications that can arise with competition are not taken into account. 

The play "The Inspector" is a satire, a comedy of morals and errors, which is part of the category of texts whose contemporaneity does not degrade over time; being a literary caricature of human defects, its relevance will cease with the disappearance of man... In the play "The Inspector" we have as protagonists the corrupt officials of a small Russian provincial town, led by the mayor, who receive disturbing news: an inspector will arrive incognito in their town to carry out some investigations. The clique's activities risk being discovered, thus, each of those involved assumes their own corrupt deeds and tries to rectify them as best they can. In the midst of organizing the cover-up, they receive the news that a suspicious individual has arrived at the inn, who presents the behavioral signs of an inspector...