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20–30.09.2023 - See you in autumn!

Nadirs

Nadirs

by Herta Müller

Directed by: Niky Wolcz

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Synopsis

Adaptation: Niky Wolcz, Valerie Seufert, Ulla Wolcz

Nadirs is a collection of short stories written by Banat born writer Herta Müller. The German State Theatre Timişoara presents the absolute premiere of the staging of one of the author's texts. At an age of maturity, the narrator remembers her childhood in Niţchidorf, her school years, the Sundays at the church, the dances and then the soirees and city experiences. She passes once more through the stations of those times and brings back to life characters from the past. She relives her own childhood fears, the arguments between her parents and …

Adaptation: Niky Wolcz, Valerie Seufert, Ulla Wolcz

Nadirs is a collection of short stories written by Banat born writer Herta Müller. The German State Theatre Timişoara presents the absolute premiere of the staging of one of the author's texts. At an age of maturity, the narrator remembers her childhood in Niţchidorf, her school years, the Sundays at the church, the dances and then the soirees and city experiences. She passes once more through the stations of those times and brings back to life characters from the past. She relives her own childhood fears, the arguments between her parents and the petty daily shams of the villagers by portraying them from a subjective perspective that is lacking in neither warmth nor humour.

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Trailer

Distribution

Isa Berger

The Narrator

Mara Bugarin

The Narrator as a Kid

Ioana Iacob

The Mother

Radu Vulpe

The Father

Ida Jarcsek-Gaza

The Grandmother

Franz Kattesch

The Grandfather

Enikő Blénessy

The Aunt

Daniela Török

Käthe

Anne-Marie Waldeck

The Great-Grandmother / A Neighbor

Paul Cebzan

The Great-Grandfather / A Neighbor

Harald Weisz

The Shadow Man / The Man with the Matchbox

Silvia Török

A Girl with braids

Tatiana Sessler-Toami

A Witch

Wendel

Horia Săvescu

Toni / The first Gravedigger

Rareş Hontzu

The Veterinary / The Organ Treadler/ The Postman / The second Gravedigger

Boris Gaza

The Pastor / The soldier

Niko Becker

Heini

Isolde Cobeţ

The Teacher / A Neighbor

Olga Török

A Bathing Whore

Dana Borteanu

The Neighbors

Ioana Bugarin

The Neighbors

Oana Vidoni

The Neighbors

With participation

Ulla Wolcz

Assistant director and children care

Isolde Cobeţ

Make-up

Lucia Preda

Assistant set decorator

Zsolt Fehérvári

Costume assistant

Dana Borteanu

Choreographic advice

Tiberiu Palikucsan

Choreographic and ethnographic advice

Edith Singer

Dramaturgy

Valerie Seufert

Corepetition

Valentina Peetz

Technical direction

Laurence Rippel

Technical direction

Costinel Stănescu

Make-up

Sânziana Creţu

Stage direction

Niky Wolcz (a.G.)

Stage & Light-Design

Helmut Stürmer

Costumes

Zsolt Fehérvári

Film direction

Bogdan George Apetri

Reviews

 

"[...] the synthetic setting of the always-inspired Stürmer gathers as in a magical torchlight the elements of a universe that is at times realistic, other times oneiric, or expressive and functional. Therefore, in the front stage puddle, as realistic as it gets, a sign of isolation, the corpse of a horse, which appears to be still breathing, or a TV set flickering, while the village madwoman wanders to her world of delusions, which blends with the images of the film on the background."


Doina Papp, in: revista22.ro

"A lively show which does not, even for a minute, lose the attention of the audience, where humour deliberately eliminates any trace of pathetic expression and is perfectly consonant with stage dynamics. Short scenes, each with their own development and charm, succeed one another in a stirring tempo, so that the history of an entire community is being painted before the eyes of the spectator. Both war and deportation become easily fathomable through the eyes of the little Swabian who tells the story in the 1st person, maintaining perfect balance between objectivity, irony and candour! This equation will be kept …

Cristina Rusiecki, in Cultura

"Nadirs is a show in which memory is the main character; it is a staging that collates not only texts, but also bits and pieces of collective and personal memory. It is as if we witness the time stained pages of a family photo album being flipped. Recovery is made with candour, but not without irony, based on the stories. […] The setting suggests a world distorted by time, struck by the realities of an age and deformed by the logic of dream. Costumes, too, recreate the local ambient so that, in visual terms, we are transported to Niţchidorf, …

Daniela Magiaru, in Orizont

"It's not easy to stage the poetic language, so little connected to the visual language of the theatre, of the Nobel Prize laureate – and, without a doubt, an essential part of the show in Timişoara was played by the scenography of Helmut Stürmer -, setting and costumes (especially the setting) that recreate the universe of the German-speaking village, closed on itself and obsessively maintaining its "values", fiction of a distinct lifestyle." 


Iulia Popovici, in Observator cultural

"The director should be credited for how he worked with the entire team of GSTT, leading them with conviction and accentuating the qualities of its members in short, rhythmic sequences, played rather laconically and supported by movement and gestures." 


Alexandru Al. Şahighian, in: Observator Cultural.ro

"A lively show which does not, even for a minute, lose the attention of the audience, where humour deliberately eliminates any trace of pathetic expression and is perfectly consonant with stage dynamics. Short scenes, each with their own development and charm, succeed one another in a stirring tempo, so that the history of an entire community is being painted before the eyes of the spectator. Both war and deportation become easily fathomable through the eyes of the little Swabian who tells the story in the 1st person, maintaining perfect balance between objectivity, irony and candour! This equation will be kept during the entire performance, which is never lagging (what a rare thing to behold in Romanian theatre!), outstandingly performed by Tompa Eszter as the Storyteller, as well as by her other numerous colleagues on the stage."


"Nadirs is a show in which memory is the main character; it is a staging that collates not only texts, but also bits and pieces of collective and personal memory. It is as if we witness the time stained pages of a family photo album being flipped. Recovery is made with candour, but not without irony, based on the stories. […] The setting suggests a world distorted by time, struck by the realities of an age and deformed by the logic of dream. Costumes, too, recreate the local ambient so that, in visual terms, we are transported to Niţchidorf, the place where everything and nothing much happens. […] Group scenes are coherent. Eszter Tompa (Herta as a grown-up) performs very well as she combines the reserve of the grown-up with the joy felt by the child. Mara Bugarin (Herta as a child) acts naturally and vigorously, and good parts are also those played by Ida Gaza (the grandmother), Ioana Iacob (the mother) or Radu Vulpe (the father). The show is extensive, but flows smoothly between the folds of memory, bringing back to surface a time of childhood garnished with told and untold stories, with fears accumulated during the night. It's a very powerful image of the village boiling under the rule of non-action, of the family that is simultaneously experiencing resignation, unhappiness and illusions."


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