by Anca Munteanu
directing: Cristian Ban
set design and costumes: Tudor Prodan
costumes from Oaș: Cristina Milea
music: Vlad Giurge
lighting design: Lucian Moga
cast: Roxana Fânață, Andrei Stan, Alina Negrău, Ioana Cheregi, Andrei Gîjulete, Raluca Mara, Vlad Giurge
A young woman from the Oaș country in north-western Romania is preparing for her wedding: to her come her mother, her grandmother, a family friend, the bridegroom, a friend with whom she is going to start a business, but also doubts about marriage, socially prescribed roles, and multiple scenarios for her life ahead. Comic touches intensify the dramatic sense in a play about work, love, and economic migration, about how surprising may be our intimate desires, and how they become clear to us in the proximity of the existential events through which we pass. The production captures the paradoxical reference points of life in a village in present-day Romania, and speaks to us in the language that we ourselves speak when no-one can see us. It plays with the typical discourses of Romanian mentality, but attributes them to other characters than we might expect.