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Saturday, 29.10.2011
18:00 Bulandra Theatre, Toma Caragiu Stage
Wendsday, 02.11.2011
18:00 Bulandra Theatre, Toma Caragiu Stage
The notes of an unknown man
after F.M. Dostoievschi
translated by Tamara Gane
dramatization by Ion Cojar
CAST:
EGOR ILYCH ROSTANEV, COLONEL – Mihai Constantin
FOMA FOMICH OPISKIN – Virgil Ogăşanu
GENERAL’S WIFE – Tamara Buciuceanu
SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH – Alexandru Potoceanu
NASTENKA, THE NANNY – Ana Ioana Macaria
MISS PREPELITSYNA ANA NILOVNA – Manuela Ciucur
FALALEI, SERVANT – Marian Râlea
GAVRILA, KAMERDIN – Ion Besoiu
MIZINCHIKOV IVAN IVANOVICH – Gheorghe Ifrim
EZHEVKIN EVGRAF LARIONYCH – Petre Lupu
ANFISA PETROVNA, OBNOSKIN’S MOTHER – Mirela Gorea
OBNOSKIN, PAVEL SEMIONYCH – Andrei Runcanu
TATIANA IVANOVNA – Bogdana Darie
SASHA, 15, THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER – Ilinca Manolache
VIDOPLEASOV, BUTLER – Lucian Ifrim
PARASKOVIA ILYNISHNA, THE COLONEL’S SISTER – Antoaneta Cojocaru
ILYUSHA, THE COLONEL’S SON – Matei Constantin
MONKS – Accoustic vocal band: Daniel Jinga (dirijor), Mircea Ciurez, Emilian Mincu, Ionuţ Popescu, Iustinian Zetea, Mihai Cârstea, Marius Boloş
Directed by: Alexandru Darie
Scenography: Maria Miu
Light design: Alexandru Darie
Play duration: 3h 40min (with intermission)
Inspired from the short novel The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants (1859), also known as A Madhouse, this dramatization by the late director and professor Ion Cojar, who had begun rehearsals on the show shortly before his demise, places the plot of this singular writing, F. M. Dostoyevsky’s only comical one, in the country mansion of a debonair colonel retired to a world entirely secluded from the political turmoil of the time, in the heart of a profound, eternal Russia scared of the imminent emancipation of bondsmen.
Notes of an unknown man depicts a fresco of life’s absurdity that puts Dostoyevsky on a par with Gogol. Donning a symphonic architecture, the show – taken up and actually reconstructed by the stage director Alexandru Darie – presents a series of both funny and dramatic events in a crazy crescendo culminating in an unexpected end.
Photo: Rareş Petrişor
