The director Eugen Făt skillfully avoided any artificial effects and unrolled the theatrical illustration using a nuanced interpretation of the actors. Without being ostentatious, using amusing effects, he imagined the passing of each of the three aunts and their appearances as ghosts. The directorial vision serves the theatric meaning of the text and gives as a result an attractive black comedy production, rarely encountered genre in the current repertoires, using a Romanian contemporary play, also absent from the theatres.

Ileana Lucaciu – ileanalucaciu.blogspot.com, April, 6th 2011

Still Life with Fatty Nephew is not cluttered with directorial schemes and it does not give definitive verdicts. The play is written with a great deal of humor and it greatly enhances the talent and the expressivity of the actors. Ion Sapdaru does not judge his characters, he does not underline their flaws and he does not embarrass them. He tells their story in an objective and balanced manner exactly in the way an intelligent parent would allow his child to choose his own path. Pompiliu is overweight, Lili is a prostitute, the three aunts sacrificed their lives out of love for their orphan nephew, and the memory of their sacrifice forces them to never let go of him, in this way also becoming his executioner. The text has all the humor, the absurd and the tragedy encountered in everyday life in which is imperiously needed to set the boundaries.

Cătălina Pavel – Cuvinte Libere, April, 13th 2011