Text author: Mircea Morariu
Taken from contributors.ro

The Regina Maria Theater in Oradea officially opened its new season with a recap of the previous theater season's productions and not only (Vinnegar Tom, Genul acustativ and Opera de trei parale were thus able to be seen again), with a premiere or, more correctly, with a complete restoration of a show originally produced in the independent environment (Pâna când moartea ne va desparți), but also with a mini-festival entitled Portret de autor. Dedicated to a highly successful trilogy by a French playwright who is by no means minor. On the contrary. Currently in great demand on Romanian stages. It's about Florian Zeller.

Now, to be fair, the festival was more of a crisis, if not necessarily a rescue, in any case. A prosperous city and county where we are told to the point of oversaturation that everything would run smoothly thanks to someone who is more sunny than Louis XIV and more thirsty for megalomaniac constructions than the Genius of the Carpathians, Oradea and Bihor do not really have, unfortunately, the resources to support the return to life, after the pandemic, of the oldest short theater festival, which over time became FITO. That is, the Oradea International Theater Festival. Other, and not culture, but, at best, subculture, popular manifestations are the priorities of the authorities in whose pen the allocation of funds is. It seems true to the saying How beautiful is our country/Whether Wednesday, or Thursday/There is no such thing as existing/Citizens with sad faces.