Lukas Bärfuss is an acclaimed contemporary Swiss playwright who was born on December 30, 1971. The author began to focus on his career in the theatrical world in 1997, founding the theater troupe 400th together with Samuel Schwarz and writing plays for it. Currently, he collaborates with theaters in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin, and his plays enjoy great international success, being translated into dozens of languages and performed on the stages of many major theaters in Europe.

The plays based on his texts deal with contemporary issues related to interpersonal relationships with cynicism and humor. The situational comedy in the plays written by Lukas Bärfuss is quite dark, revealing the contradictions in the problems that torment his protagonists, without ever judging them.

Love, in four paintings (orig. Four Pictures of Love) is no exception to this rule. Four paintings, four locations, four central characters and a somewhat ghostly one who seems to always try to guide the characters towards the door leading outside, which is a symbol of freedom, of personal salvation from the routine in which they have immersed themselves.

Evelyn, a schizoid housewife, is celebrating her hundredth date with her lover, Daniel, an oncologist. They always meet in the same hotel with four-star comfort for the price of three. Both feel trapped in their relationships with their partners and seek something else, a variation from the marriage and routine into which it has fallen. Evelyn would like to shake her husband with the news that she has a lover, but she knows that he is indifferent, cold, unmoved and that he would not believe her capable of such a thing. Daniel, married to Susan, lives in the illusion that his relationship is more modern, and that his wife, being an artist, openly accepts extramarital affairs. Both decide to confess their relationships to their partner.

But despite what they think, things take an unexpected turn. What is left to do when you find out that your devotion and fidelity have been rewarded with a lie? Will you respond calculatedly, will you let yourself be guided by impulses, or will you continue to lie to yourself that your relationship is pure and moral? The show thus becomes a meditation on love and couple life full of turmoil caused by the contradiction between the morality of love and the temptation of freedom, trying to answer all these questions.

Distribution:

Evelyn: Georgia Caprărin

Susan: Anda Tamasanu

Sebastian: Alin Stanciu

Daniel: Sorin Ionescu

Young man: George Dometi

Artistic director: Daniel Vulcu

Scenography: Eliza Labancz

Musical illustration: Dorin Griguță

Translation: Victor Scoradeț

Premiere date: June 10, 2014

The Oradea International Theatre Festival, an annual event organized by the Regina Maria Theatre and the FITO Cultural Foundation, will be part of the European network EFFE – Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe this year.

In Oradea, between May 25-29, 2015, the third edition of the International Circus Theater Festival will take place!

The show CHEIA (stage direction Victor Ioan Frunză) was performed yesterday in the presence of the author, Mr. András Forgách.

Here are some of the author's thoughts about this play: "Two brothers, who are very different, despite the fact that they look alike, are waiting for something, but no one knows what that is something. They have each other, and that's it.

Between May 26-31, 2015, the third edition of the REGINA MARIA THEATRE DAYS event will take place in Oradea.

Here is the schedule of performances:

Less than two months after its premiere, the show "The Ritual Murder of Gorge Mastromas" (nationally premiered in Oradea) has already been invited to participate in an international theater festival. It is the Arad International Festival of New Theater (FITN), organized by the "Ioan Slavici" Classical Theater, which takes place between May 9-17, 2015. The Iosif Vulcan troupe was invited to give a performance after the show was viewed and appreciated by the FITN selector, Claudiu Groza.

Less than two months after its premiere, the show "The Ritual Murder of Gorge Mastromas" (the national premiere) has already been invited to participate in an international theater festival. This is the Arad International Festival of New Theater (FITN), organized by the "Ioan Slavici" Classical Theater, which takes place between May 9-17, 2015. The Iosif Vulcan troupe was invited to give a performance after the show was viewed and appreciated by the FITN selector, Claudiu Groza.

The Regina Maria Theatre is participating in the FITN for the second time after last year with the show Leonce and Lena, directed by Mihai Măniuțiu. Also at that time, the Oradea troupe was delighted to be selected alongside other troupes in the country considered among the most appreciated, from theatres such as Odeon, Act, Târgu-Mureș, etc., which presented shows whose directors were signed by big names such as: Theodor Cristian Popescu, Radu Afrim, Victor Ioan Frunză, etc.

The Ritual Murder of Gorge Mastromas will be performed on the stage of the Classical Theatre in Arad on May 14, 2015, at 7:00 PM.

The Regina Maria Theater in Oradea presents on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., the national premiere of the play The key  by András Forgách. Cast: Daniel Vulcu and Pavel Sîrghi alongside Petre Ghimbășan, Georgia Căprărin, George Dometi, Corina Cernea, Alin Stanciu, Marlena Prigoreanu and Ion Abrudan. Dramaturgy: Attila Budaházi. Set and costumes: Adriana Grand. Stage direction: Victor Ioan Frunză.

The Regina Maria Theater completed the cycle of performances dedicated to the program School OtherwiseBetween April 6-9, 2015, the Regina Maria Theater prepared 6 performances for students and preschoolers:

 THEATRE 'QUEEN MARIA' – No. 1236 of 31.03.2015

 ANNOUNCEMENT   

THEATRE “REGINA MARIA” – on 05.05.2015, 9.00 am, is organizing a competition to fill the following vacancies:

The most appreciated show of recent years produced by the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea, the musical Fiddler on the Roof, recorded its first success abroad. The event was organized at the Thalia Theater in Budapest at the invitation of the Romanian Embassy in Hungary, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Bihor County Council and the Oradea City Hall.

The show "The Fiddler on the Roof" crosses the country's borders! For the first time, the most successful show of the Regina Maria Theatre in recent years, as well as the one that has received the most awards, is invited abroad.

The Regina Maria Theater invites you to the book launch Chapter from a lost book by Tiberiu Ciorba, edited by Dan Horaţiu Popescu and Emil Sauciuc. The volume brings together writings by Tiberiu Ciorba, former techno-editor of the Familia Magazine and collaborator of the Oradea State Theatre, published in various magazines and newspapers, as well as memories evoked by his friends. The book launch will take place on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, at 5:00 p.m., at the Arcadia Troupe headquarters located on Vasile Alecsandri Street no. 8.

We are waiting for you!

On March 3, at 10 am, Mrs. ZOE ANGHEL-STANCA left us. She will be buried on Saturday, March 7, at the Bellu Cemetery. May God rest her soul in peace!

The Regina Maria Theatre announces the premiere of the show Iubire, a tribute show dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the founding of the magazine Familia. That is why the show is organized in collaboration with the Oradea cultural magazine.