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Tuesday, 01.11.2011
18:00 National Theatre Bucharest, Atelier Stage
Wendsday, 02.11.2011
20:00 Teatrul Naţional Bucureşti, Sala Atelier
Purification
by Petr Zelenka
translated by Mircea Dan Duţă
CAST:
JACEK - Adrian Titieni
MONIKA - Medeea Marinescu
KASIA - Afrodita Androne
ANDRZEJ - Vitalie Bichir
ALENA - Brânduşa Mircea
THE PRODUCER - Armand Calotă
MARTA - Lamia Beligan
PAVEL - Mihai Călin
EVA - Ilinca Goia
THE MAKEUP ARTIST - Florentina Ţilea / Cecilia Bârbora
THE PRIEST - Tomi Cristin
THE POLICEMAN - Marcelo Cobzariu
THE PRODUCTION DIRECTOR - Natalia Călin
THE CHILD MIKULAS - Vlad Roşu
AUDIENCE ON SET - Anda Tomoşanu, Bianca Popescu, Alina Mihai, Oana Cristina Puşcatu, Ana Maria Maier, Alexandra Vrabie, Iuliana Feraru, Cosmin Pană, Vlad Trifaş, Alexandru Ştefănescu, Lucian Ionescu, Vlad Drăgulin, Georgian Rotaru
Directed by: Alexandru Mâzgăreanu
Scenography: Andrada Chiriac
Wet Sponges choreography: Florentina Ţilea
Music and musical illustration: Alexandru Suciu
Lights: Richard Stan, Alexandru Sanda
Multimedia: Andrei Dăscălescu
Play duration: 2h (no intermission)
Jacek is a writer. A regular writer, not a great one. What is great, though, is the torment of his conscience dealing with his crime: “in a moment of madness”, he put to sleep and raped his friends’ 11-year-old son. His publisher tries to help, advising him to confess his sin in a very popular TV show named Purification: after all, any media presence can help boost the sales of Jacek’s latest novel! After an intense struggle with himself, the writer enters the show and gives details about the episodes of the offense and all those who in one way or another contributed to it. When he leaves the TV studio, Jacek is ready to bear the consequences, the legal ones included, of his actions. But nobody reacts…
Constantly oscillating between reality and fiction, the text of the renowned Czech playwright and director (born in 1967) presents, with black humor, a case of conscience – collective conscience. Its first Romanian staging (by the National Theater in Bucharest) is the work of a very young director and an experienced company of actors, who invite their audience to a critical ethical debate.
Photo: Augustin Bucur
