JOB ANNOUNCEMENT – ARCADIA BAND
The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theater is hiring a puppeteer actor, with an individual employment contract for a fixed period.
PRESS RELEASE | First premiere of the 2025-2026 season at Arcadia Troupe
The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theater announces the first premiere of the 2025-2026 season: "Thumbelina", after Hans Christian Andersen, dramatized and directed by: Toma Hogea, which will have two performances on September 27, at 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM, at the Arcadia Hall.
"I wish it wasn't contemporary, but Caragiale is terribly current and that's because we need him" - interview with Vlad Trifaș
Text taken from LiterNet.ro
Ramona Nemes: You return to the Regina Maria Theater after you have mounted Tartuffe in 2021. How do you feel you have evolved as a director since then and how do you now find the actors of the "Iosif Vulcan" Troupe a few years later?
Vlad Trifas (laughing): It's... quite complicated to talk about evolution mine. I just hope I didn't make a fool of myself, that's the only thing I wish for. I like to say about myself that I'm a seeker, a person who "explores" with the curiosity of a child. If we're going to talk about my evolution in one way or another, I can certainly say that the hole is bigger, I've started looking a little more, which I hope brings me a little more experience. But I'm just as curious, with just as many questions. I'm afraid of the moment when I answer all the questions, so from this point of view I think I'm the same, but with a greater baggage of experience.
The courage of an authentic Caragiale – "Carnival's Day" at the Regina Maria Theater
The theater is often tempted to tame and adapt the classics, and the Regina Maria Theater, together with director Vlad Trifaș, takes on the courage to stage a Authentic Caragiale, which pulsates with the energy of the southern slum, where passions burst forth "fast forward", and the grotesque and humor naturally follow each other. For the Transylvanian audience, this incursion into the Caragiale universe acquires the force of a revelation: a lively, intense show, which refuses cosmeticization and brings to the surface both the fragility and the vitality of human typologies.
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„"Năpasta" is the only play written by Ion Luca Caragiale in the tragic register, a creation that has sparked a polarized critical reception over time, oscillating between accusations of plagiarism and recognition of its dramaturgical value.
„"I'm looking for texts that position themselves in the gray area, between directions, without giving verdicts" - interview with Vlad Bălan
Text taken from LiterNet.ro
Razvan Rocas: „"Things I Know to be True" is a text that comes from a dramaturgy that is perhaps less explored in our country: Australian dramaturgy. How did you arrive at this text? What do you find most appealing from a directorial point of view?
Vlad Balan: I was familiar with Andrew Bovell's playwriting. I saw a show in Ploiești a few days ago, When will the rain stop?; it was directed by Radu Afrim. I also saw a dissertation performance based on this text and, somehow, it stuck in my mind. Initially, in our discussions with Vichi (Victoria Balint – interim manager of the Regina Maria Theatre), we had another plan; we had to make a dramatization based on a novel. It was a complicated situation with the rights and in the end I ended up making other proposals. I remembered this text and said to myself to read it – I only had the impression of the dissertation performance I had seen. I read it and I know that it struck me from the first moment, I sent it to him and said „This is what I think it is!”. It was a perfect fit: and Bobi Pricop said „Yes, I support it” immediately – he already knew the text. I had great support in this sense and it seemed appropriate to me also because I have the feeling that it is a fairly classic text, in terms of structure, at the story level. It's a text that deals with this generation gap and does so with great wisdom, without passing judgment. It seems to me that we live in a moment where we are polarizing in two directions – conservative and progressive. Usually, that's what I look for: texts that position themselves in the gray area.
Between Certainties and Changes – Things I Know to be True
Text taken from LiterNet.ro | author: Răzvan Rocaș
We live in a time when everything that happens around us seems to push us into polemics with those around us. We often discover that what we thought we knew about these people is, in fact, erroneous. In such moments, we need something that gives us the certainty that things or people dear to us will remain unchanged, as we remember them. These landmarks instill in us a necessary sense of security. It's just that it is precisely in the midst of them that the most brutal changes can occur, forcing us to make drastic decisions.
PRESS RELEASE | Things I Know to be True
The "Iosif Vulcan" troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre is preparing for the first premiere of the season, Things I Know to be True by Andrew Bovell, directed by Vlad Bălan, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, September 16 and 17, from 7:00 PM, at the Transilvania Hall.
The cast consists of actors from the Iosif Vulcan troupe Richard Balint, Corina Cernea, Denisa Irina Vlad, Eugene Neag, Cosmin Petrut and Giorgiana Coman.
I am part of the creative team Vlad Balan, Gabi Albu and Cristina Juncu, those from Impress Media dealing with video design.
We all need a safe space, where we know we can return when life doesn't go the way we wanted it to. A place of our own, where we can protect ourselves and where things remain intact, as we've always known them. But what happens when we find that personal shelter crumbling due to a weakness we didn't know about or chose to ignore?
Rosie, the youngest of the Price family, is on a trip through Europe on her gap year and is forced to return home to find her balance. Here, she is welcomed by the whole family and, for a moment, everything seems unchanged: the father, who takes care of the rose garden, the mother, who has a solution for everything, Ben, who can't seem to maintain a relationship, Mark, who has always been the more withdrawn brother and Pip, who seems to live a happy life with her husband and two children. However, this image is just an illusion that is about to disappear when the unspoken things between them come to the surface, and the relational balance that proves fragile is put to the test.
Things I Know to Be True explores the complicated family dynamics that hide behind them the sacrifices made by parents on behalf of their children, the pressure of expectations imposed on children, but also the urgent need for each one to express and defend their own truth. Beyond the intimate struggles between their own aspirations and disappointments, each family member is forced to manage the sudden and unexpected changes in the lives of others, the consequences of which cannot be healed by love alone.
Things I know to be true
by Andrew Bovell
Distribution:
Bob: Richard Balint
Fran: Corina Cernea
Pip: Denisa Irina Vlad
Ben: Eugene Neag
Mark: Cosmin Petrut
Red: Giorgiana Coman
video appearances: Sofia Latcu, Rareș Red, Luca Bran, Caesar Sirghi, Elena Sirghi, Carina Bunea, Mirela Rosu
direction: Vlad Balan
scenography: Gabi Albu
original music: Cristina Juncu
video design: Impress Media
Premiere: September 16 and 17, 2025
Show recommended for people over 18 years old!
Tickets can be purchased online, on the Poftim Cultură platform.
We look forward to seeing you at the theater!
Press release – Premiere of the show "D-ale carnavalului"
The Regina Maria Theatre announces the premiere of the show "D-ale carnavalului" by IL Caragiale, directed by Vlad Trifaș, who also signed the musical selection and the adaptation of the text. The set design is by Oana Cernea, and the lighting design is by Ionuț Aldea. The two premiere performances will take place on September 24 and 25, at 7:00 PM, at the Great Hall.
CARNIVAL DAYS
"Carnival's" brings to the stage Caragiale's unmistakable comedy, full of consuming passions, delicious intrigues and absurd situations. The hairdresser Nae Girimea juggles between Mița Baston and Didina Mazu, while their partners, Pampon and Crăcănel, jealous and ridiculous rivals, launch themselves into a veritable hunt for "Bibici". The love entanglements mix with gossip and small intrigues, so that everything culminates in a masked ball, where the absurdity and humor of the mistakes already triggered reach their peak.
His directorial vision Vlad Trifas but it goes beyond the simple comedy of situations and love entanglements. It brings to the fore the depth of the characters, through settings and interpretations that evoke an accentuated Balkan universe, which naturally merges with the irony and humor of Caragiale. The noblest feelings collide with the raw impulses of the slum, reason is suspended, and the characters abandon themselves to an unbridled pathos, which only people with an unbridled appetite for life can manifest with such naturalness.
The staging of the show D'ale carnavalului was born in a laboratory state, where the entire team explored Caragiale's deeply human humor. His typologies do not belong only to the past, but breathe around us, people who burn at high temperatures, ready to explode at any moment, because their world – like ours – always operates on the edge.
Carnival becomes the metaphor for this tense universe, where masks, appearances and intentional confusions create a permanent danger of explosion. The laughter that the show proposes is not only comical, but necessary: a mechanism of liberation and recognition in a reality where human fragility and ridicule inevitably coexist. – Vlad Trifas
A new season with major projects at Arcadia Troupe – TRM
The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre is preparing remarkable stories for the young spectators of Oradea in the new season. These will be staged by award-winning directors, who are returning to Oradea with enthusiasm, after having already staged other successful shows in the troupe's repertoire.
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"Thumbelina" is a Music-Hall production, full of vitality and freshness, which brings to the fore, in a new, vivid and modern light, one of the most beloved classic titles for children.
Tiny and frail, a cute little girl is the gift of the Horse and the Good Fairy to a pure-hearted woman, whose only wish was to have a child. But the appearance of the little one arouses the anger of Cotoroanța, the Good Fairy's rival, who does not hesitate to use her dark powers to drive her away. Out of spite, Cotoroanța makes her own child, whom, despite her wickedness and cruelty, she loves and spoils without measure.
Thus, Thumbelina ends up traveling through unknown and dangerous places. Along the way, however, she discovers the value of true friendship, learns that the strength to overcome obstacles often lies within each person, that freedom brings both beauty and responsibility, and that the innocence of childhood can be an invaluable support on the path to adulthood.
PRESS RELEASE | Romanian Language Day celebrated through a cultural journey
The Regina Maria Theater, with the support of the Bihor County Council, in partnership with the Bihor County School Inspectorate and the Criș Land Museum, is organizing the cultural event "Gustar's 31st - Romanian Language Day" on Sunday, August 31, from 6:00 PM, in the Conference Hall of the Criș Land Museum.
A start to the season rich in events at the Regina Maria Theater – Iosif Vulcan Troupe
The Iosif Vulcan troupe of the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea opens the 2025–2026 season with a rich cultural agenda, aimed at offering the audience landmark performances, exciting premieres, creative workshops and festivals dedicated to both loyal spectators and the youngest theater lovers.
THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE
by Andrew Bovell | translation: Vlad Bălan
We all need a safe space, where we know we can return when life doesn't go the way we wanted it to. A place of our own, where we can protect ourselves and where things remain intact, as we've always known them. But what happens when we find that personal shelter crumbling due to a weakness we didn't know about or chose to ignore?
Rosie, the youngest of the Price family, is on a trip through Europe on her gap year and is forced to return home to find her balance. Here, she is welcomed by the whole family and, for a moment, everything seems unchanged: the father, who takes care of the rose garden, the mother, who has a solution for everything, Ben, who can't seem to maintain a relationship, Mark, who has always been the more withdrawn brother and Pip, who seems to live a happy life with her husband and two children. However, this image is just an illusion that is about to disappear when the unspoken things between them come to the surface, and the relational balance that proves fragile is put to the test.
ANNOUNCEMENT | HIRE DECOR FITTER HANDLER
Step 1
The Regina Maria Theater in Oradea is looking for a practical, responsible and detail-oriented person for the position of set assembler-setsman who will work within a technical team that assembles, installs and maintains sets for performances.
Responsibilities:
- Assembling and dismantling sets according to the sketches or instructions of the set designer;
- Handling and transportation of decorative elements;
- Assembling and fixing supporting structures;
- Maintenance of the sets while the show is playing;
- Collaboration with the technical and artistic team.
Requirements:
- Skill, attention to detail and technical sense;
- Capacity for physical exertion and availability for flexible work schedules (including nights/weekends, if applicable);
- Seriousness, punctuality and team spirit;
- Experience in the field is an advantage;
- Minimal knowledge of using tools (drill, self-tapping screw, etc.);
- Category B license – a plus.
Requirements according to the position:
- Romanian citizen
- Secondary education
- Work experience: minimum 6 years
- Individual employment contract for a fixed period with possibility of extension.
CVs can be submitted to the email address: [email protected] or directly to the theater: King Ferdinand I Square, no. 6.
For more details, please contact us at the phone number: 0359.411.579
We look forward to welcoming you to our team!
August program at the Regina Maria Theater
The Regina Maria Theater stage is full of stories in August too! We are waiting for you with two events every week, only good to refresh your evenings with unforgettable and humorous stories, but also with characters that will stay in your mind. Whether you are from Oradea or just passing through, summer evenings are more beautiful when you hear applause at the end. So, starting this weekend, we invite you to the following shows:
Richard III and the vapors of power
Text taken from Family Magazine | author: Alexandru Jurcan
The long-awaited premiere at the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea took place on April 5 and 6 this year, 2025. It is about Shakespeare's Richard III, translated by Horia Gârbea - stage version by Alexandra Felseghi and Andrei Măjeri, with inserts from Henry VI. Directed by: Andrei Măjeri, who last year received the Uniter for the show Cine la ucis pe tata. Ambitious director, who has never disappointed.
