"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!

Kindness is always rewarded. So, the Good Fairy wants to grant the skilled carpenter Geppetto his greatest wish: to have a child.

Therefore, he sends him an enchanted log from which Geppetto carves in an instant a little wooden boy who comes to life. His name is Pinocchio and he really wants to become a real child. He happily sets off for school, the place where he can fulfill his dream, but his journey will prove to be full of adventures, dangers, but also lessons.

Will Pinocchio succeed in becoming a real child? Arcadia Theatre will answer this question through a charming show in which the joy of image, music and dance happily intertwine with that of virtuosity and emotion of interpretation.

Distribution:
Pinocchio – Consuela Egyed
Jiminy – Armanca Serac
The fox – Zentania Lupșe
The cat – Andrei Fazecas
Geppetto – Florian Silaghi 
Wick – Florian Silaghi
Fire Eater – Patrick Negrean/Igor Lungu
Cyberman – Alexander Pop

Directed by: Adela Moldovan
Scenography: Marian Sandu
Scenography assistant: Oriana Pelladi
Choreography: Levente Dimény
Musical composition: Lucian Nagy
Sound Mixing: Steve Brookfield 

Premiere date: March 31, 2018

Target audience age: + 3 years

THE MAN is a mischievous and curious little boy who, after a serious fall, manages to lose all his body parts. His little legs, his little hands, his little eyes, his little ears, his mouth, and even his ever-hungry belly hide in the forest and start to cling to their horns, only to disobey the elf's command to reunite. His little legs walk briskly, his little mouth is no longer silent, his little eyes run after butterflies, his little nose sniffs the scents of the forest, his little ears listen curiously, each one does what he has always known how to do, but wandering here and there alone. However, for a LITTLE MAN to be whole, every part of his body is needed, so after running unhindered through the forest, they return to give the little boy all the senses a man needs.

This play that the show proposes has a double formative purpose, because it not only opens the gates of the theatrical universe to such a young audience, but also teaches them, through art, what the parts of the human body are, what each one is called and what sense it characterizes. Children will thus have a sensory educational journey, and parents will have the opportunity to assist them in the process of familiarizing themselves with the elements of the theater space (audience, lights, sounds, closed space) in a delicate, gentle and patient atmosphere.

"Your child is already another individual, a different body from yours, a personality already developing. Body awareness is the first step towards self-awareness. The human body is the reflection of the self. It is very important that the little one next to you becomes aware of his own body correctly and in time. Once he understands that he has and controls a pair of little hands, two little feet, a nose, a little mouth and two little eyes, he will want to use them. He will explore the possibilities offered by these and thus for the first time he will be able to TALK. ".” Delia Gavlitchi

With: Armanca Serac, Alexandru Pop, Andrei Fazecaș, Igor Lungu, Florian Silaghi

Artistic director: Delia Gavliţchi
Scenography: Csűri Emese
Music: Corina Sirbu

Show duration: 30 minutes

Target audience age: 2 – 7 years old

Premiere date: September 11, 2016

In the world of grown-ups, there are many small things that can seem huge to babies.

Everyday objects that seem trivial to some, in the world of children they can become true mysteries waiting to be discovered.

"BIG OR BIG?" offers the youngest spectators the opportunity to enter the magical world of theater, in their own way. The familiar atmosphere in which they are welcomed, the artistic moments created especially for them and the carefully selected sound background, are the elements that await curious children to take their first steps in the world of puppet theater.

The Arcadia troupe invites you to its first theater show for babies aged 0 to 3 years.

With: Andrei Fazecaș and Consuela Egyed

Directed by: Viktoria Nagy
Scenography: Csuri Emese

Premiere date: December 21, 2014

Festivals:

• International Children's Theatre Festival "100, 1,000, 1,000,000 Stories", 11th edition - "Ion Creangă" Theatre, Bucharest - October 2015
• MiniREACTOR, Cluj Napoca – October 2017

„"Little Red Riding Hood? Again?"

Yes! Dozens of generations have answered this question for over three hundred years, since the appearance of the written form (1697) signed by Charles Perrault.

Why wouldn't I answer, especially since, I admit, it's not the first time... (It was my first attempt to dramatize a story for staging in a puppet theater). It's the most famous story in world culture, it has had various retellings and rewritings by anonymous or great writers such as: The Brothers Grimm (1812), Alphonse Daudet (1862), Ludwig Tieck (1800) in different literary formulas - fairy tale, poem, novel, tragedy...

How could we avoid this treasure? Every generation must meet the «big bad wolf» and the beautiful and naive «Little Red Riding Hood». Because in real life everyone has met or been a «beautiful and naive Little Riding Hood» or a «big greedy wolf»… The different interpretations (folklore, psychoanalytic, religious, feminist) given to the story of Little Red Riding Hood over the centuries, depending on the mentalities of the respective era, show that the theme of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf will not be exhausted anytime soon…

So, the Arcadia Troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre invites you to see the newest version after Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, dedicated to children between 3 and 11 years old." Maria Mierluț

Distribution:

Little Red Riding Hood: Zentania Lupşe/Consuela Egyed
The Wolf: Florian Silaghi
Mother: Armanca Serac
Veve: Andrei Fazecaş
Rita: Alexandru Pop
Cuckoo: Florian Silaghi
The Great Hunter: Igor Lungu
The Little Hunter: Alex Pop
Puppy: Armanca Serac
Grandmother: Alexandru Crefelean
The forest, the birds: Zentania Lupşe/Consuela Egyed, Andrei Fazecaş, Alexandru Pop, Igor Lungu, Florian Silaghi, Alexandru Crefelean

Artistic director: Maria Mierluţ 
Scenography: Oana Cernea 
Original music: Endre Sárossy 
Assistant director: Florian Silaghi  

Show recommended for children over 3 years old!

Show duration: 1 hour

Premiere: April 6, 2014

Festivals:

• International Euromarionette Festival, "Ioan Slavici" Classical Theatre – puppet section, Arad – May 2014
• "Povești" International Theater Festival, Prichindel Theater Alba Iulia – October 2014
• "Puck" International Theater Festival, Puck Theater Cluj-Napoca – November 2014
• "Gulliver" International Animation Festival, Gulliver Puppet Theatre, Galați – May 2015

Awards:

• The Award for Performance Music – Endre Sárossy, for the staging of "Little Red Riding Hood", by the "Arcadia" Troupe of the "Regina Maria" Theater – Oradea

There is no parent or child who does not know the story "The Goat with Three Kids" by Ion Creangă. We sing the goat's song, we tell the plight of the disobedient kids as a warning and of the obedient one as an example, we rebel against the greedy and deceitful wolf, we stand by the mother in trouble and admire her courage.

In the Arcadia Troupe's performance, the story retains its original plot, only it is skillfully adapted and sprinkled with lots of music, so that it will appeal to both young and old.

DISTRIBUTION:

Goat: Zentania Lupşe/Carina Bunea
Yeduţa: Armanca Serac
Kid 1: Florian Silaghi
Kid 2: Alexandru Pop
The Wolf: David Constantinescu
The Magic Bear: Igor Lungu
The Hedgehog: Giorgiana Coman

Artistic director: Daniel Vulcu
Assistant director, puppeteer: Andrei Fazecaș
Scenography and puppets: Csuri Emese
Music: Dorin Griguţă

Premiere date: May 5, 2012/remake: 2021

Duration: 1h

Show recommended for children 3 years and older!