The Awakening follows the story of Amalia, a 16-year-old student at a prestigious high school, caught between the need for validation, the pressure to perform, and the invisible violence of the online environment. The announcement of her qualification for the national stage of the Romanian Olympiad sparks an avalanche of reactions, but not on the high school page, but in the unmoderated and uncontrollable parts of the internet – culminating in a compromising image that begins to circulate among her classmates and on the city's gossip pages.

Amalia is suffocated by the consequences: shame, isolation, verbal aggression, public stigma, distrust from adults and the inability of institutions to intervene. The play, written for teenagers and performed by teenagers alongside their real parents, follows the collective reactions of peers, families and teachers, revealing a social mechanism in which responsibility is diluted and blame is constantly shifting. Built as a polyphony of digital voices and intimate confessions, "The Awakening" is an X-ray of adolescence in the age of social networks and artificial intelligence, a show about losing control over one's own image, about the fragility of identity, about how thin the line between real and fabricated is when technology becomes a weapon and about what happens when maturation takes place more in the cloud than in the body.

After each performance, an open discussion with the audience takes place.

Distribution:
Amalia: Anastasia Vicoveanu
Bogdan: Robert Balint/Filip Ionescu
Bianca: Rebecca Rusu
Christina: Dania Uifaluși
Cosmin: Benjamin Kendi
Alex: Tudor Neagu
Psychologist: Adela Lazar
Bogdan's father: Richard Balint/Sorin Ionescu
Amalia's mother: Alina Leonte
Amalia's father: Razvan Vicoveanu
Bianca's father: Alexander Rusu

Directed by: Bobi Pricop
Music & Videoart: iRonic Distors
Assistant Director: Mihai Gligan
Motion Graphic: Bogdan Țolea
Video Programming: Constantin Șimon
Video Operation: Sergiu Domide
High school actor coordinator: Cosmin Petruț
Psychologist – consultant: Dr. Ioana Drugaș

Special guests – video appearances: Silviu Faiăr, Really Rux, Sabina Teodora, Alex Zlăvog, Pete Line

Video appearances: Larisa Neguriță, Boldis Raisa Alexia Gabriela, Ilinca Rusu Maria, Butuc Sofia-Elena, Olșac Kristina Maria Angelina, Popa Teodora Ștefania, Ghizdavu Amelia – Diandra, Ana Irina Bologan, Merca Marina Ioana, Vulcu Vlad Andrei, Nistor Andrei, Manolescu Emanuel Sergiu Dumitru, Seica Rareș Andrei

Recommended age: +14
Duration of the show: 2h

• "Atelier" International Theater Festival – Baia Mare (June 19, 2026)
• TIFF – Cluj-Napoca (June 18, 2026)
• "Povești" International Theater Festival – Alba Iulia (May 21, 2026)

• ”"The Awakening", on stage in Alba Iulia: The tough show with and for teenagers but which parents must see
• Digital voices in awakening at the International Theatre Festival Tell, Alba Iulia