Chronicle by Carmen Tărniceru

This story begins with… a black river, with an interior anguished by cruelty. So, what is a story? A made-up fiction, the slightly erroneous memory of a child, a real event or a mixture of sensations transformed into an epic thread. The Sparkle of a Black River is a one-woman show that includes it all, along with historical elements, political atrocities in Chile and the beauty and sadness of a childhood. The character waltzes between delicacy and grotesque, compulsively passes from love to hatred and from innocence to dual maturity. A little girl remembers the domestic violence between her grandparents, the censorship of personal letters from during the war, tore apart or even not sent at all. She becomes, like her grandfather, an adult with violent actions, sensitive (ironically!) and traumatized by a dysfunctional family, with crucial secrets and bizarre dynamics. A person who denies her personality, who refuses to be what she is, who is in an eternal struggle with herself and with a consciousness that ignites when she deviates from the right path - a spark that slips into the black thread of a devastated soul.


The show transmits its essence through slightly naive and decadent music, through rapid shifts from a tired balance to sharp cries, from macabre gestures to strange actions (sometimes incomprehensible), in a setting focused rather on visual effects.

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"Theatre Chronicle @ Eurothalia" is a programme conceived by Daniela Șilindean together with the team of the German State Theatre Timișoara, within the Eurothalia 2023 European Theatre Festival, held between 20-30 September 2023, financed by the National Cultural Program Timișoara - European Capital of Culture in 2023.