by Katalin Thuroczy, directed by Radu Afrim
Zsuzsa: Dorina Lazăr
Sandor: Virgil Andriescu
Mana: Irina Mazanitis
Boske: Virginia Rogin
Hilda: Liana Mărgineanu
Istvan: Constantin Cojocaru
Adel: Rodica Mandache
Ameliedragă: Tatiana Iekel
Eva: Crina Mureşan
Karola: Jeanine Stavarache
Liza: Ana Maria Moldovan
Laci: Alin Teglas
A performance by: Radu Afrim
Stage design: Vittorio Holtier
Costumes: Ilona Varga-Jaro
Music: Vlaicu Golcea
Translated by: Anamaria Pop
Theatre Festival, Caracal, May 17, 2013
“Toma Caragiu” Theatre Festival, Ploiești, 12 November, 2011
Contemporany Meeting Theatre, Odorheiul Secuiesc, October 15, 2008
The TAMper2 Theatre Reunion, Sf.Gheorghe, September 27, 2007
Tour in Budapest (November 27) and Debrecen (November 29), 2006
National Theatre Festival, Bucharest, 2006
The Theatre Festival, Piatra Neamț, October 25, 2006
Comedy Festival, Galați, October 23, 2006
Kids and man’s Stories Festival, Alba Iulia, October 6, 2006
European Day and Nights Festival in Brăila, September 17, 2006
The Theatre International Festival, Sibiu, June 2, 2006
RODICA MANDACHE – UNITER Prize for best actress in a supporting role, 2007
CONSTANTIN COJOCARU – Nominee for UNITER Prize for best actor in a supporting role, 2007
RADU AFRIM – UNITER Prize for best director, 2007
The stage literature that Katalin THURÓCZY writes startes from what are apparently the natural-realistic practices belonging to the Hungarian theatre. The vivid line, the nerve and the sensibility of the spoken word are inducing the sensation that one has to face an extention of the daily life – but the surprises are coming fast, because Katalin THURÓCZY’s plays are always opened towards the poetic, symbolic and metaphorical compass. The absurde, comedian figure, is sometimes more acute either sarcasm-oriented and is commun to all Katalin THURÓCZY’s plays, being a powerful dominant of one’s style. In Thursdayparty one faces an excessive, decadent play, a fresco of a world whose’s sunset is already gone, but which does not want to die: the elders of Katalinei THURÓCZY are tenderly haunting, likewise an ethernal ghosts.
Duration: 2h 20′
Photo by George Dăscălescu