Chronicle by Jasmina Mitrici
There is a trend that easily circulates in the theatrical approaches, theatre about theatre. Ever more companies, subsidized by the state or not, choose to bring in front of the public also stories about the backstage of the show halls. The personal problems of the actors, the sacrifices, the frustrations, the actor-director relationship and many other themes (of which we might think that only the actors understand) pass in front of the spectators who, to everyone's surprise, even empathize. And this gives courage and thus, more and more shows about the Theatre (yes, with a capital letter) are produced. The myths start to fall, the surface full of makeup, bright light and other ...theatre words are scraped, and you start to see the people behind the actors.
But why this need for self-exposure? Where does the desire to tear off the veil that surrounds the stage and protects it from the eyes that want to see in its depths come from? Doesn't this mystery, this idealized image of the theatrical world, make the spectators want to return to the performance halls? Or does this very revelation bring them closer? These are just some of the questions that pass through the mind on the show Das Theater, signed by Pascal Rambert, staged with the entire ensemble of actors of the German State Theatre in Timișoara.
Inspired by the stories of the actors, but passed through a sieve of fiction, the show is, in fact, a "relay teaching" between two actresses, two generations, a kind of "circle of life" – a road carries on the torch. And before the curtain is drawn, we see the next generation coming. Everything passes, the important thing is what is left behind.
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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.
