MYTH SHOW:
A History of Distrust

“At the beginning of our documentation for this production, we set out together with Daniel Chirilă, like Myth and Math, the story-teller and statistician in MYTH SHOW, to document how various people in Neamț county related to the conflicts of recent history and the tensions of today’s society. In a period in which hardly anyone believes anything of what politicians and the mass media say, in which everyone has their own “true” version of any socio-political event, from pandemic to war, it has become clear that the main vector uniting everybody’s testimonies and experiences is lack of trust. Not just a lack of trust accumulated over the generations in the ‘other’ (of another ethnicity, another creed, another social position, etc.), but a fundamental lack of trust in the project of society as a whole—in any institution, from the government to the church, from the hospital to… the theatre. How did we get here?” (David Schwartz, director)