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.

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…

We are in a place that does not exist on the map. A small town, with people like everywhere else. Here we find a group of inhabitants who almost form a community, but not quite. Like everywhere else, some know each other, others not so much. In such an isolated, remote place, as if somewhere at the end of the world, the ordinary is shaken by people's feelings that are unleashed and come to the surface, manifesting themselves in the form of a ceaseless search for the acute need for closeness, for belonging. A longing that springs from and is fueled by their love, melancholy, loneliness or hope. A set of stories about the attachment, suffering and disappointment that we feel in interactions with others, in our attempts to be together.

"B-category goddesses" by Alexandra Felseghi, based on an idea by and directed by Andrei Măjeri, is a show-event that aims to bring on the same stage actresses from three cities and three different theaters, applauded in the geographical spaces in which they play, but less known outside of them: Elena Ivanca (actress of the "Lucian Blaga" National Theater in Cluj-Napoca), Ioana Dragoș Gajdó (actress of the "Regina Maria" Theater in Oradea), Silvia Luca (actress of the "Mihai Eminescu" Theater in Botoșani).

The premiere took place on September 22, 23 and 24, in Bucharest, at creart/TEATRELLI – the initiator of the project and the main producer, the show then being played, in turn, in all the co-producing theaters, respectively at the National Theater Cluj-Napoca, the "Regina Maria" Theater Oradea and the "Mihai Eminescu" Theater Botoșani.

"Cactus Flower" is one of those comedies that never goes out of style. Romantic, humorous and spicy, the comedy has been successfully played both on stage and in cinema, the first screen version being rewarded with an Oscar, a nomination at the Bafta Awards and an award and four nominations at the Golden Globes..

The play “Cruelty and Tenderness” is a contemporary reinterpretation of Sophocles’ “The Trachineans,” by Martin Crimp, which updates the ancient Greek tragedy and puts it in relation to the political climate of today’s world. Sophocles’ character, Deianeira, thus becomes, in Crimp’s reinterpretation, Amelia, the wife of a general. Housed in a temporary house near an international airport, as she receives more information about the general’s war activities, she devises a plan to bring him home. Her love for him becomes clouded by doubt and hatred when she learns that her high-ranking husband has initiated a military attack on a strategic city not only for political but also sentimental reasons.

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.

Georges (Răzvan Vicoveanu) and Jeannot (Richard Balint) are a charming middle-aged gay couple. The former is the manager and the latter the star performer of a flamboyant drag club in Saint-Tropez. After twenty years of blissful extramarital bliss, the two face the toughest challenge of their relationship yet: meeting the parents of their son's fiancée.

They both decide the best approach is to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities, when their ultra-conservative, anti-gay future in-laws come to visit. This comical scenario sets off a stunning French farce.

Musical, moving, captivating and astonishing, the show "Colivia Nebunelor" is a comic masterpiece about love and preconceptions.

"last it is a piece of life, lived real and without restraint, without modesty. Mimi's plays do not spare you, longing. Everything is raw, authentic and true. It is a show about dreaming and about helplessness, about the desire to succeed, to go somewhere more into the light. I chose the text because it is a tough text, because I believe in the truth, even if it revolts us and is difficult to digest. Our characters are captive in a world and in a time that passes in vain. They are as we are, both bad and beautiful, you judge them, but you also pity them. We all dream of a better life, we all dream of being happy and, depending on the situation we find ourselves in, we are willing or not to make compromises.” (Denisa Irina Vlad)

Until Death Do Us Part (Liselotte and the Month of May) is a show in which humor is intertwined with tragedy. Liselotte, a lonely girl who is looking for her chosen one, manages to go through situations that are as unpredictable as they are comical. He, the Chosen One, puts on the colorful coat of the playful, ending in the sobriety of a master of ceremonies' tuxedo... the ceremony of marriage or death?

With: Georgia Căprărin and Răzvan Vicoveanu

Is love enough to save anyone but yourself?

Nicolas is a teenager who is going through a problematic phase. Since the family context is not too happy either, the parents are divorced, and the father has started another family, the fight to overcome the critical moment falls on the parents one by one. When the mother becomes overwhelmed by the situation, the father takes over the mission and tries to help his son. Oscillating between helplessness, love, rebellion, guilt, his own traumas and fears, the effort to restore the emotional chaos into which the boy has fallen proves to be more difficult than expected. In all the desperation of the situation, he makes choices that will have unexpected consequences for everyone.

"The Son" is a family drama that realistically deals with a sensitive subject: teenage depression and the suffering experienced by all those who face such a problem.

The story imagined by Giuseppe Berto is inspired by Concerto for oboe and string orchestra in D minor by the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello, long erroneously attributed to Antonio Vivaldi and then to Benedetto Marcello, and is a romantic drama, which is consumed under the mysterious and thanatic patronage of Venice. The plot is focused on the confrontation of emotions, memories, reproaches and desires of two characters, a He and a She, who meet again after a long time on the platform of a train station in Venice and gradually discover, that despite the suffering they have caused each other, love has not died. But time is against them.

In the cast, you will be able to see again the actors Sebastian Lupu and Mirela Niță Lupu playing together, who give even greater depth to the characters, bringing in addition to their acting contribution, which for building such penetrating roles require stage maturity and depth, also that of life, as they are in turn a couple in everyday life. At the same time, the choice of this text was not at all accidental and marks, somewhat in a mirror, the celebration of 25 years of career on the Oradea theater stage.

With: Sebastian Lupu and Mirela Nita Lupu

Artistic director: Elvira Rîmbu
Scenography: Oana Cernea

Video: Ionuț Jarca
Make-up: Miruna Chipurici

Premiere date: March 3, 2022

Show duration: 1 hour 40 min.

The Regina Maria Theater invites you to the premiere of the show "Eva Heyman". A shocking one-woman show, based on the diary of the little Jewish girl from Oradea, who meets her tragic end in the Auschwitz camp. The show captures Eva's events, thoughts, and feelings over a period of several months, just before she is deported. An authentic testimony about the tragedy of a child and a people!

"Monsters don't exist unless we create them! We need people to believe in them."

The show is an adaptation, the text being brought up to the speed of information transfer we use now. Only one character has retained his pedantry, only he is aware of this and refuses to simplify, because he believes that the power of the word has beauty.

After the death of her husband, Marina sets out determined to take revenge for every injustice she has suffered from those close to her over time. Nothing is forgiven and forgotten, everything is recorded. The proof that what she says is as true as possible is in a diary in which she has noted down in great detail every injustice she has suffered. She unleashes the storm and says everything, without reservations, without hiding anything: blunt and to the point. When the plan seems to be interrupted by an unforeseen event, her daughter takes over.

The situations created and the dialogues are insanely humorous, the characters free themselves from formalities and hypocrisy, but they reveal serious character flaws and raise serious questions about family relationships.

"Accusative gender", a tragicomedy delightful, in which the mix of comedy and drama recreates an episode seemingly taken from the daily life of an ordinary family. A situation that seems as real as it is dramatic.

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...