{"id":14097,"date":"2025-05-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teatrulreginamaria.ro\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:24:20","slug":"the-alien-son-and-the-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teatrulreginamaria.ro\/en\/fiul-straina-si-robotul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Son, the Stranger, and the Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text taken from Family Magazine<\/a> \/ author: Alexandru Jurcan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following situation is becoming classic: children gone to other countries, sick single parents, benevolent neighbors, foreigners paid to take care of them... Here is an extremely current, hot, painful theme. Simona Mihu\u021biu, a renowned oncologist from Oradea, addressed such a problem in the play Speran\u021ba nu auc\u0103 nieve\u0219ti con elevatul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Oradea, January 12, 2025. I see the play at the Regina Maria Theater, Transilvania Hall. Directed by: Toni Nica. A great challenge at his directorial debut: to create a viable, truthful universe, with humans and androids. Simona Mihu\u021biu has been writing literature for several years. The 2019 novel Window to Tomorrow, an overwhelming love story, was very successful among young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the show begins, you are greeted by a warm, familiar interior: bed, carpet, lamp, television, bookcase. Oana Cernea's convincing scenography proposes a striking contrast with human suffering. That of Mrs. Mia, the sick woman cared for by Vetu\u021ba, who speaks in a peasant way and evokes a necessary humor for a counterbalance that eliminates a possible tearful tone. In this role, actress Adela Laz\u0103r is fully convincing, in an empathetic interpretation. The revelation remains Mirela Ni\u021b\u0103 Lupu, who plays Mia. Excellent robotic twitches, a versatile rictus, tortured movements, often censored pain. From bed she ends up in a wheelchair, then in an armchair. A true adventure of tragic senescence. Man: evolution and involution. Because Vetu\u021ba can no longer take care of her, because her absent son lives somewhere far away, Mia will be cared for by two androids, specially programmed for such a mission (played by Georgia C\u0103pr\u0103rin and David Constantinescu \u2013 difficult, unusual roles, assumed with refined talent). Their thinking is analytical, the relationship becomes rigid, tiring, humiliating. Empathy is removed by a sudden alienation. The sick man is treated mechanically, without warmth, thrown into a nightmarish solitude. To collaborate with the Robotic Center means to arrive on the planet Kafka. You always hear: "Our company... our generation cannot be corrected". It is perfection itself. The androids parrot tiresome truisms, flat definitions. How can they understand the expression "leave it alone!", other than "leave it alone", thus throwing water on the ground?! Either way, we will eventually see some kind of reconciliation of the two worlds. Can the two robots be humanized?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let's say you have a child and maybe you're too protective. Or indifferent, permissive, possessive, anxious. Either way, on the wrong path of education. You forget what the Ugandans used to say, that a child is like a vine: if he's not educated, it will grow into your head. Or you're too perfectionist and you suffocate the child. What does it matter? Failure has occurred, the being is lost. Then you console yourself and turn to artificial intelligence? You replace the child with a robot. In 2018, the English playwright Thomas Eccleshare wrote a sustainable text on this topic, absolutely necessary, with recognizable situations \u2013 Instructions for Correct Assembly, concerned with the idea of... programming someone. You buy the product, assemble it, operate the remote control. You replace the failed child with a robot that obeys, listens to you. How long? From human demolition, another inevitable erosion will occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to our show, I believe that towards the end there was a kind of dilution, towards explanatory and tear-jerking, but we are dealing with a play of compelling universal relevance, and the director manages to ensure a solid emotional dynamic, in a well-articulated, imposing show.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text preluat de pe Revista Familia \/ autor: Alexandru Jurcan Devine clasic\u0103 urm\u0103toarea situa\u021bie: copiii pleca\u021bi \u00een alte \u021b\u0103ri, p\u0103rin\u021bii singuri bolnavi, vecinii binevoitori, str\u0103inii pl\u0103ti\u021bi ca s\u0103 aib\u0103 grij\u0103 de ei\u2026 Iat\u0103 o tem\u0103 extrem de actual\u0103, fierbinte, dureroas\u0103. Simona Mihu\u021biu, reputat medic oncolog din Oradea, a abordat o asemenea problem\u0103 \u00een piesa Speran\u021ba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aparitii-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t