"Frederick the Mouse" - a show about childhood dreams and the courage to be yourself!

In a fast-paced, pragmatic world, little mouse Frederick seems… different. While others are stockpiling supplies for the winter, he gathers sunshine, colors, and words. It doesn't seem useful, it doesn't seem "productive" – but when the cold and silence descend on their hideout, his very dream becomes food for the soul.

Frederick is not just a dreamy mouse, but a mirror of the child in us – that child who dreamed, felt deeply, saw beauty in the smallest things and dared to be different. Our show tells Frederick's story from a sensitive and contemporary perspective, adding original moments, dialogue with the audience and thought-provoking questions:

• Who were we before we were told who we “should” be?
• What did we love to do, but forgot along the way?

Through puppetry, play, music and humor, the show invites children and adults on a journey of discovery. It is a show that offers not just a story, but an experience – one that reconnects us with our authentic selves and reminds us of how valuable it is to follow your dream, even if others don’t understand it.

Ana Christmas Lambru

Frederick the Mouse: Armanca Serac
Max, Grandma Mouse, Bully: Alexander Pop
Father Mouse, Leaflet, Assistant Bully: Florian Silaghi
Grandma Mouse, Assistant Mouse Frederick: Consuela Egyed
Mother Mouse, Assistant Bully: Andrei Fazecas
Grandma Mouse, Assistant Mouse Frederick: Alexandru Crefelean
Lia, Grandma Mouse: Igor Lungu

Directed by: Ana Christmas Lambru
Scenography: Alexandra Budianu
Music: Cari Tibor
Video mapping: Radu Martin and Andrei Cozlac
Set design assistant: Emese Csuri
Dolls: Razvan Chendrean
Doll painting: Ana Christmas Lambru
Puppet and props production assistant: Madalina Baciu
Lighting design: Peter Papp
Scenario consultancy: Florin Tudose
Storytelling workshop coordinators: Ioana Drugas and Ana Crăciun Lambru

Sound: Peter Papp
Lights: Adrian Gherdan
Stage technicians: Daniel Turcuț, Nicolae Porumb
Cabin attendant: Anna Cellino

Show recommended for children over 4 years old!

Premiere date: April 26, 2025, Arcadia Hall

At a time when elephants were incomplete and did not yet have trunks, a curious baby elephant wants to slowly discover the world. Since he cannot do many things on his own and does not know everything, he asks questions left and right. But the other animals, busy with their own affairs, are a bit annoyed by his insistence. And since he is curious to find out what the crocodile eats for dinner, he sets off on a real adventure to find the answer. Nothing more dangerous, but if he doesn't try, he wouldn't discover, right?

The protagonists of the famous classic tale "The Bremen Town Musicians", the donkey, the dog, the rooster and the cat, after their owners maliciously get rid of them, meet 4 experienced Western impresarios, who are determined by circumstances to turn them into stars. Even if at first it seems like an impossible mission for the impresarios, the hope with which the animals set off on their journey, the desire to create a better fate for themselves and the beautiful friendship that binds them together, convince them that their dream is not really impossible. In addition, with a little cunning, they can escape the crisis in the music industry.

Pe Vasilache și Mărioara îi știm de când lumea. Se spune că sunt cele mai cunoscute personaje din teatrul de păpuși românesc și că s-au plimbat pe vremuri pe la toate bâlciurile. Soț și soție, cununați de ani buni, se răfuiesc, își joacă farse dintre cele mai năzdrăvane și se necăjesc unul pe celălalt, dar nu se poate spune că nu iubesc viața. Atunci când Vasilache intră, după cum i-e felul, în bucluc, Mărioara, cea care nu vrea să-i facă de mâncare și îl bate cu lingura de lemn ori de câte ori încearcă acesta să facă pe cocoșul, îi sare în ajutor și îl salvează.

Adaptation and artistic coordination by Igor Lungu, based on a text by Mihai Crișan
Cu: Alexandru Crefelean și Igor Lungu
(Julia Dinescu)

Scenography: Madalina Baciu

Regia tehnică, sunet, lumini: Peter Papp
Tehnicieni de scenă: Nicolae Porumb, Daniel Turcuț

Show recommended for children over 5 years old!

You are about to meet Doctor Aumădoare and find out the secrets of his amazing job!
In his hospital, all animals with health problems are welcome.
Whether domestic or wild, we assure you that they will be well cared for.
Doctor Aumadore is a good and caring friend, so he also makes home visits.
If there's a sick animal, wherever it is, he goes to help it, even all the way to Africa.

The story of Doctor Aumădoare teaches little ones how to be friends with nature and guides them to love, protect and respect animals. The adaptation of the famous book by Korney Chukovski is an inspired and creative one. Iulian Bulancea manages, both through the chosen fragments and through the directorial vision, to build a dynamic, cheerful and captivating story, in which the playful and energetic characters will arouse the sympathy of young viewers.

With: Florian Silaghi, Alexandru Pop, Armanca Serac, Igor Lungu, Andrei Fazecaș, Carina Bunea, David Constantinescu, Consuela Egyed

Directed by: Iulian Bulancea
Songs: Dorin Griguță
Scenography, props, painting: Răzvan Chendrean

Technical direction, lighting, sound: Peter Papp
Stage technicians: Dan Turcuț and Nicolae Porumb
Costume designer: Anna Cellino

Age limit: +4

Premiere: March 5, 2023 – Arcadia Hall

Following requests from parents, an ad hoc meeting is organized at the North Pole to save the stories. This is because without stories, all the magic of Christmas disappears, and Santa Claus is left without the famous sleigh with which he brings gifts every year. To save the situation, Santa Claus and Santa Claus convince the negative characters in children's stories to do good deeds.

The show Santa's Sleigh aims to be a very brief foray into childhood stories, such as The Bear Tricked by the Fox, The Three Little Pigs and The Goat with Three Kids, to see what a good deed means and who should do it, to bring the magic of Christmas back to earth.

Distribution:
Alexander Pop – Santa Claus
Florian Silaghi – Santa Claus
Armanca Serac – The Goblin
Zentania Lupşe – The fox
Igor Lungu – The wolf
Multiple roles – Andrei Fazecaș and Consuela Egyed

Directed by: Igor Lungu
Scenography: Madalina Baciu
Music: Ovidiu Iloc

Premiere date: December 11, 2022

„Cei trei purceluși” este una dintre poveștile care deschid de multă vreme interesul copiilor pentru literatură și lumea cărților. Ca fiecare basm nemuritor, importanța poveștii constă în primul rând în mesajul pe care îl transmite copiilor, și anume acela că în viață nu putem acționa întotdeauna conform principiului plăcerii, așa cum fac cei doi purceluși mai mari, ci trebuie să ne construim o bază solidă pentru a putea face față pericolelor ce pot apărea, asemeni purcelușului cel mic. De asemenea, poate fi văzută și ca o alegorie a faptului că toți copiii cresc și trebuie să facă propriile alegeri, care pot fi rele sau bune.

Povestea a devenit celebră în toată lumea odată cu adaptarea animată Disney din 1933, după versiunea folcloristul australian Joseph Jacobs. Spectacolul Trupei Arcadia este inspirat din versiunea Disney, dar adaptat vremurilor și culturii noastre. 

Cu: Alexandru Pop, Andrei Fazecaș, Carina Bunea, Armanca Serac, David Constantinescu

Regia: Daniel Vulcu
Muzica: Dorin Griguță
Scenography: Oana Cernea
Butaforia: Răzvan Chendrean
Painting: Madalina Baciu
Technical direction, lighting, sound: Peter Papp
Tehnicieni scenă: Dan Turcuț și Nicolae Segărceanu

Show duration: 1h

Spectacol recomandat copiilor cu vârsta peste 3 ani!
Data premierei: 23 octombrie, Sala Arcadia

A new premiere for early age to the Arcadia Band: NORR in the world of colors!

A show dedicated to children between the ages of 0 and 3, which uses sensory stimulation elements: colors, visual effects, calibrated music, shadow plays, lights and colorful images, with the aim of gently accustoming the little ones to the spectacular world of theater.

The unicorn Norr will be the children's charming guide, for 40 minutes, in a laboratory world full of color and magical mirrors.

With: Carina Bunea and Consuela Egyed

Artistic coordinator: Florian Silaghi
Scenography and costumes: Oana Cernea
Props: Razvan Chendrean
Picture: Madalina Baciu
Sound and lights: Peter Papp
Stage technicians: Dan Turcut, Nicolae Segarceanu

Premiere: October 1, 2022, Arcadia Studio Hall

"The Snow Queen", as written by Andersen, is a complex, large-scale fairy tale (consisting of seven stories), very rich in meanings and symbolism, which made it the basis for many screen adaptations and performances of all kinds: opera, ballet, theater... many of them not dedicated to children, but to an adult audience. Like any text, which was not designed for the stage, it required a work of selection and rewriting to adapt it to the rules of the stage and the aesthetic language that I proposed. I selected from the multitude of meanings and valences of the fairy tale, the simplest and strongest, which would be easily spotted by our target audience: children. This is how ""The Snow Queen and the Magic Mirror", the text that underlies our show, which is about the power of friendship and love, about the ability to overcome any obstacle, even if our main character, Gerda, is seen by everyone as "just a little girl". (Iulian Bulancea)

With: Consuela Egyed, Armanca Serac, Zentania Lupșe, Florian Silaghi, Alexandru Pop, Igor Lungu, Andrei Fazecaș

A show by Iulian Bulancea
Scenography: Răzvan Chendrean
Technical direction, lighting: Peter Papp

Show recommended for children over 5 years old!

Premiere date: December 18, 2021

In a fairy tale, a little boy managed to do something completely and utterly extraordinary, even impossible some would say: he bit his nose. Since such an amazing phenomenon, unique in the world, multiverse and any verse, cannot be kept secret, mom and dad got excited, took advice and concluded that it must be seen by everyone. The doctor consulted him, researched and was amazed. The influencer taught him everything he needed to know to become a big star. The journalist gave him media coverage. The mayor even awarded him an award. A lot of people came curiously to the big event organized on this occasion. But, each preoccupied with their own things, the adults forgot to ask the child what he really wanted?

A comic show for children, which has an educational side that this time addresses... parents, "the former to find an ally in their little boy, the latter to learn to become allies of their own children themselves." (Alex Moldovan)

THE BOY: Florian Silaghi
PARENT: Zentania Lupșe
FATHER: Alexander Pop
DOCTOR: Andrei Fazecas
JOURNALIST: Armanca Serac
INFLUENCER: Igor Lungu
MAYOR: Andrei Fazecas
Episodic characters (Neighbors, Journalist 1 and 2, Woman in the Audience, Man in the Audience): Florian Silaghi, Andrei Fazecas, Igor Lungu

A show by: Selma Dragos (DIRECTION) and Smaranda Gabudeanu (choreography)
Music: Air (Adrian Cimpoeșu)
             Thanks to Louis L'Étourneau for his contribution to the orchestration of "A Child is a Man"
Scenography – Costumes and decor: Oana Cernea
                      Mechanical doll creator: Razvan Chendrean

Show recommended for children over 6 years old!

Premiere date: July 9 and July 10, 2021, Children's Town/Great Hall

Apolodor is a tenor penguin in the choir of a circus, in Calea Moşilor, who really misses his family and the other penguins he lived with at the North Pole. Thus, he sets off on a long journey to find them, going through countless adventures and meeting more and more wonderful characters who will help him. 

With: Igor Lungu, Zentania Lupșe, Florian Silaghi

Artistic direction: Sebastian Wolf
Scenography: Oana Cernea
Paintings:  Madalina Baciu

Technical direction and lighting: Peter Papp
Sound system: Obada Lucian
Costume: Anna Cellino
Decoration handlers: Turcut Daniel, Sabau Viorel

Premiere: November 4, 2018, Arcadia Hall

*Show not recommended for children under 5 years old!

Bunătatea este întotdeauna răsplătită. Așa că, Zâna cea Bună vrea să îi îndeplinească iscusitului tâmplar Geppetto cea mai mare dorință a lui: aceea de a avea un copil.

Prin urmare, îi trimite un buștean fermecat din care Geppetto ciopleşte într-o clipită un băiețel de lemn care prinde viață. Numele lui este Pinocchio și își dorește foarte mult să devină un copil adevărat. Pornește bucuros spre școală, locul unde își poate îndeplini visul, însă drumul lui se va dovedi unul plin de peripeții, pericole, dar și de învățăminte.

Va reuși oare să devină Pinocchio copil adevărat? Teatrul Arcadia va răspunde la această întrebare printr-un spectacol plin de farmec în care bucuria imaginii, a muzicii și a dansului se împletesc fericit cu cea a virtuozității și a emoției interpretării.

Distribution:
Pinocchio – Consuela Egyed
Jiminy – Armanca Serac
Vulpea – Zentania Lupșe
Motanul – Andrei Fazecas
Geppetto – Florian Silaghi 
Fitil – Florian Silaghi
Mangiafuoco – Patrick Negrean/Igor Lungu
Cyberman – Alexander Pop

Regia: Adela Moldovan
Scenografia: Marian Sandu
Asistent scenografie: Oriana Pelladi
Coregrafia: Levente Dimény
Compoziția muzicală: Lucian Nagy
Mixaj sunet: Steve Brookfield 

Data premierei: 31 martie 2018

Vârsta publicului vizat: + 3 ani

The story of Cinderella, the gentle and beautiful girl who conquers the prince's heart, is presented to young viewers by a group of actors who have just returned from the palace, where the royal wedding has not yet ended...

Distribution:

Cinderella – Consuela Egyed
The Prince – Alexander Pop
The Master – Andrei Fazecas
The Emperor – Florin Stan
The Empress – Zentania Lupşe
Fairy – Zentania Lupşe
Girl 1 – Zentania Lupşe
Girl 2 – Armanca Serac
The Jester – Igor Lungu
The mouse – Rin Tripa / Florian Silaghi
Mouse – Armanca Serac
Storyteller, Announcer – Florian Silaghi / Rin Tripa
The horse – Igor Lungu, Alexandru Pop  

Screenplay and direction: Adela Moldovan
Assistant director: Florian Silaghi
Scenography: Eustațiu Gregorian
Costumes: Oana Cernea
Music: Ladislau Luptovits

Premiere: April 9, 2017

Show recommended for children over 3 years old!

Show duration: 50 min.

Participation in Festivals:

• Puck International Puppet and Marionette Theatre Festival, 16th edition – Cluj Napoca, October, 2017