Chronicle by Carmen Tărniceru
The Theatre is that show that manages to gather all the actors of a theatre at the same time on the same stage, to show us what happens behind the scenes. How is it in the backstage? At a first glance, it looks as in the teachers' lounge in school, in the Public Finances offices, at the ministry.... With metaphysical frustrations of professional perception, with the small joys and inherent disappointments. With the pleasures and nerves one can only get at his job. And with the love it creates.
The show is, or could be, a personal history of the German Theatre in Timișoara during the communist regime and after, with the long-awaited international representations resulting in enormous satisfactions and, subsequently, with corresponding disappointments. Like those felt by Iraqi actors, forever distributed in shows about the problems of the Middle East (and described by Enkidu Khaled in Baghdad) or other Slavic actors in Eastern Europe, distributed exclusively in performances about Yugoslavia. Or rather, its bloody end.
We can also see the less noble elements: vanity, favouritism, quarrels, and frictions. And behind it all, great doses of humanity and passion. Restless, well-worked and intensified, taken to the extreme or trampled, irritating and impressing us alike. And they give us an extra reason to go to the theatre.
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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.
