Reactor de Creație și Experiment, Cluj-Napoca

THE DREAM

14-sn

Saturday, 16 September | 6:00 PM | duration: 2h 20min | Mobile Stage

by Alexa Băcanu
The performance includes excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, translated by Ștefan Octavian Iosif

directing: Dragoș Alexandru Mușoiu
set design: Mihai Păcurar
choreography: Sergiu Diță
music: Max Anchidin, Renata Burcă, Magor Bocsárdi, Csaba Boros, Tibor Cári, Radu Dogaru, Ada Milea, Adrian Piciorea, Corina Sucarov, Peter Visky, Compozitor anonim
musical training: Adonis Tanța
sound and lights: Cătălin Filip
sounding: Radu Boancă
photography and video poster: Vivien Miron-Vilidár

cast: Doru Taloș, Radu Dogaru, Christian Har, Emőke Pál, Paula Seichei, Adonis Tanța, Maialgesa Dat, Călin Deneș, Ana Maria Marin, Duncan McKee, Victor Muntean, Ana Rednic, Oana Rotaru

This production opens the door for us into the ante-chamber of the training of tomorrows artists: we are in the classroom of a group of Theatre students, an incubator as fascinating as it is slippery with regard to the right measure between permitted and not permitted, between projection and reality. As he prepares them to graduate with Shakespeare’s ‘Dream’, the character of the professor embodies recent debates about physically or emotionally abusive teaching methods, which are presented as normal to students in art faculties. The force of the production lies in its ability not to offer a clear-cut solution to the phenomenon that it criticizes with obvious justice, but rather to set it against a hallucinatory atmosphere, in which classes and phone-calls home, breaktimes and evenings after school, aspirations and fears give each other rhythm and potency. A sensitive manifesto about the anxieties preceding the fulfilment of the dream of being an actor.