Theater

28|11|07 // 20.00
CRUMBL'S by Lia Bugnar

«Crumbl's» is a loaf of bread with marmalade. Or a plate of plum dumplings. Or the bag on which you took a ride on the slide instead of a sleigh. Anyway, it’s a play that I wrote in two days at the request of some of my friends (actors who also play in it). So it was there, just needed a reason to come out. That’s the story behind «Crumbl's». Oh! In fact I didn’t say anything about the play. Well, there’re just some «crumbles» that make you laugh with your handkerchief in your hand. That’s what it is about.
Lia Bugnar

29|11|07 // 20.00
YOU CAN'T FEEL IT HERE… by Lia Bugnar

A play about a man and a woman to whom everything stinks. This is what the play is about. Only to them, all stinks. They don't know each other fi rst, but then they say to each other things they wouldn't say to the closest friend. Their dialogue, although sad, has the humour of the things which are so commonplace that one wouldn't expect to read or see in a play. And because the fresh air is good to the heart, and to the feelings as well, they seem to fall in love a little bit…
Lia Bugnar

30|11|07 // 19.00
BUCHAREST CALLING by Peca Stefan

17 years after the fall of the Communist regime, young people are trying to leave their own failures behind them and to fi nd their own identities in Bucharest. The five protagonists – an illegal racing car driver, a party girl, a radio DJ, an ex-prostitute and her pimp – are frozen in the past and are repeatedly taken aback by the future. «Bucharest Calling» is an attempt to question the current,
definitive, everyday mindset: Does coming from Bucharest mean that one is condemned to failure? At the end of the struggle, when all excuses have been declared null and void, hope is possible. In August 2007 «Bucharest Calling» was a great success at the Fringe Festival in New York.

01|12|07 // 19.00
NEW YORK (FUCKIN' CITY) by Peca Stefan

It is August, night time, Târgovişte in Rumania. Laur is going to be 23 tonight and is in the process of committing suicide. He has just returned from New York City to his hometown. Laur's friend Adi, an 18-year old student, suddenly turns up with a couple of beers. Adi and his girlfriend Irina are Laur's best friends and the only people who know that he has returned. The couple ran away from home to work as actors in the capital. It is a night in which Laur has to face up to the truth about his life. Peca Ştefan (*1982) is one of the most innovative playwright in Rumania.

01|12|07 // 21.00
THE SUNSHINE PLAY by Peca Stefan

On a hot summer night on a roof terrace in Bucharest Dan, a Rumanian who has returned to his homeland after a turbulent stay in Columbia, decides to make a hopeful new start. He receives unexpected help from a peculiar couple – engaged in the past and to be so again the future. Dan plans a trip with them to the coast, to the town of his birth, in the hope of meeting his mother again after years of separation. «The Sunshine Play» tells of the return to post-Communist Rumania and of a generation ready for a daily life in their homeland free of fear. In 2006 Peca's play won the prize for the Best Play – Relationship Drama at the London Fringe Report.