{"id":14099,"date":"2025-07-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teatrulreginamaria.ro\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:33:34","slug":"richard-iii-and-the-steam-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teatrulreginamaria.ro\/en\/richard-iii-si-aburii-puterii\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard III and the vapors of power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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 G\u00e2rbea - stage version by Alexandra Felseghi and Andrei M\u0103jeri, with inserts from Henry VI. Directed by: Andrei M\u0103jeri, who last year received the Uniter for the show Cine la ucis pe tata. Ambitious director, who has never disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We know that Richard is determined to take the throne at any cost, destroying everything around him, killing his possible competitors in the Tower of London. An ever-present subject: dictatorships and manipulative tyrants. From the beginning, the set design (Adrian Balc\u0103u) strongly impresses. The revolving stage, the shiny stairs, the balcony, the screen, configuring a carousel of alchemical frenzy, even suggesting the backstage of power, where Richard plots on the hidden bed, which will be unmasked at the end. The stairs suggest the ambition of the uncertain, cunning climb, in a treacherous slalom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video design: Andrei Cozlac. Lighting design: Sabina Reus. Nebulous faces, premonitory clouds, ghosts of smoke pass on the screen. That is, the "vapors of power" in a "twisted world". Then, lace-like spots in a protein vortex. Images are born, they are erased, marking the instability of the virtual palimpsest. Flashing images of deceptive power. A well-articulated lighting marks the uncertainty, the "winter of our disunity". The costumes have monochrome colors, discreetly seconded by a blue and a red. From time to time, flags appear, and at a certain moment the black flag of death dominates. The music (Adrian Piciorea) is omnipresent, immersive, without dissonant accents, integrating the elements in the elaborate unusual synesthesia. There is no hiatus between one scene and another, everything flows in studied movements, which give rise to an emotional dynamic, ensured by the choreography signed by Hunor Varga. The show is placed in such an innovative framework that you wonder how Shakespeare's text was folded so well into the modern, stirring manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show stars Petre Ghimb\u0103\u0219an (Richard), R\u0103zvan Vicoveanu (Buckingham), Richard Balint (4 roles), Denisa Irina Vlad (Lady Elisabeth), Alina Leonte (Lady Anne), Corina Cernea (Lady Margret), Ioana Drago\u0219 Gajd\u1f40 (Duchess of York), Cosmin Petru\u021b, Robert Balint and Luca Bran. The performance of actor Petre Ghimb\u0103\u0219an is absolutely ingenious, playing a Richard with the face of Hitler (sometimes), descended from dictator <\/em>Chaplin. Clownish, clownish, arrogant, slippery, insolent, with ambiguous looks. The ever-present sword often floats in padded threats. He climbs, returns, in poisonous waves, convinced that "I play the role of Satan well", then becomes scared, cowardly, when "my kingdom is as fragile as glass", desperate in the famous cry for help "I give my kingdom for a horse". Richard Balint is equally imposing in the four roles, played through a conceptual filter placed under the sign of an absolutely exceptional stage endurance. All the actresses are convincing, professional, credible, in eloquent portrayals. A special mention for Ioana Drago\u0219 Gajd\u1f40, volcanic, dark, tragedian of international repute. R\u0103zvan Vicoveanu is always imposing, alluvial, sliding towards the parodic, especially in the scene with the candles, emblematic of the subsequent factual evolution, with perfidious speeches and allusions to current events. The stage form subtly includes the message. Everything is a floating, an instability, a Time has irreparably fled.<\/em> The rhythmic dance at the end is a defiance of the contortions of history, of the dissolution of power. Director Andrei M\u0103jeri, with his multifaceted talent, has created a sumptuous, sublime show. Absolutely monumental. To be seen and seen again. Convinced, like Augusto Boal, that a being becomes human when it invents theater.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text preluat din Revista Familia | autor: Alexandru Jurcan Premiera mult-a\u0219teptat\u0103 la Teatrul Regina Maria din Oradea a avut loc \u00een 5 \u0219i 6 aprilie anul acesta, 2025. E vorba de Richard III de Shakespeare, \u00een traducerea lui Horia G\u00e2rbea \u2013 versiune scenic\u0103 de Alexandra Felseghi \u0219i Andrei M\u0103jeri, cu inser\u021bii din Henric VI. Regia: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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