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“I chose this story because it speaks honestly, with humanity and humour, about people from three corners of Europe who are trying to connect and rediscover meaning in a world full of contradictions. I am glad and feel challenged to work with an international cast and that the performance will be staged in three languages. The beauty of the text written by Elise Wilk also lies in the fact that, no matter where they begin, all the stories return, in one way or another, to Romania and its past.” — Cristian Ban

 

Sophie accidentally meets Darius in a Viennese café, and from there it is only a small step to something more than a one-night affair. In postcommunist Sibiu, Mariana and Rudi meet again after several decades, sharing their lives, hopes, and the failures they have experienced during the years spent apart. While awaiting an important visit somewhere in Luxembourg, tensions arise within the couple Daniela and Walter over the way each of them relates to the children from their previous marriages.

None of these characters, however, is aware of how their destinies intertwine with those of the others.

By weaving together three parallel stories to illustrate a radiography of uprootedness, Elise Wilk creates a trilingual, polyphonic text about the human condition in today’s Europe—one that, having left behind the terror of dictatorship, nevertheless risks repeating the mistakes of the past.

Set design: Andreea Săndulescu

Light design: Cristian Niculescu

Graphic: Alin Danila
Photo: Vlad Dumitru

Subtitling: Antonia Ecaterinescu

Project manager: Daria Ciobanu

Sophie - Olga Török

Darius - Gyan Ros

Rudi - Viorel Rață

Mariana - Serenela Mureșan

Daniela - Emőke Boldizsár 

Walter - Daniel Plier

Alex - Patrick Imbrescu