Teatrul de Stat Constanta

AN ISLAND

A show for the whole family, where myth blends with playfulness, comic absurdity, and the unmistakable music of Ada Milea. The actors from Constanța, who have already proven their vocal talents in other performances, now have the opportunity to make full use of them, turning almost any object on stage into a musical instrument. You are invited to a deserted island, where you'll meet Robinson, Friday, the Mermaid, Mary, her mother and grandmother, the Pirate, Randolph, the King of the Cannibals, the parrot Coco, and many other parrots.

From Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe’s novel that every child and teenager once read while confronting the strange idea of absolute solitude, to The Island by Gellu Naum, and then to An Island by Ada Milea, this updated shipwreck story on a deserted—yet not entirely deserted—island offers both artists and audiences plenty of opportunities for lighthearted reflection on highly contemporary themes.

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Bernarda Alba decreed that reputation must be defended at all costs, even at the expense of the happiness of the eight women locked behind the walls. The barred windows only allow the illusion of freedom, and money is at the heart of the planned marriage between the most desired young man in the village and the oldest of the sisters. And if love has blossomed in other hearts, it is merely a symptom of freedom, which must be eradicated from the very start in the concentration-like space created over the centuries by the oppression of women through patriarchal traditions.

The House of Bernarda Alba is the final play in what commentators refer to as Federico García Lorca’s "rural trilogy," alongside Blood Wedding and Yerma.

The author’s general subtitle is "A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain." To tell this drama, Lorca sets the scene in a house in Andalusia where the strictest mourning has been imposed, no men remain, and the matriarch Bernarda Alba exerts dictatorial control over her five daughters, her elderly mother, and the servant. Conformity, obedience, fundamentalism, and the repression of emotions cannot, however, last forever, in the face of the volatile and ever-changing nature of femininity, with love, passion, courage, rebellion, and self-sacrifice. The aspiration for love and freedom inevitably crashes against the unyielding walls of the House of Bernarda Alba.

GAMES IN THE BACKYARD

Edna Mazya not only does the reconstitution of the trial of an extremely violent event that occured in the lives of some young people, but also analyzes the psychological mechanisms that allowed it to occur. "Games in the Backyard" is a performance about cruelty, an x-ray of the adolescent psychic, a story about four boys and a girl living their last day of freedom, of childhood, of innocence. Last day without consequences!
The play has enjoyed enormous success both in Israel and in other countries where it was set up, especially because it transposes a true story, of the trial of the aggressors in the case of a rape of a 14 year old teenager, which happened in a rural community in the north of the country. The case shocked the Israelis, and the initial acquittal of the perpetrators triggered massive protests throughout the country. The publicity surrounding the trial prompted several women to gain courage and report various forms of aggression held in silence.

MACHINAL

“Machinal” offers a theatrical reflection on the relationship between the individual and the social mechanisms that regulate work, family, and intimacy in a world governed by efficiency and conformity. Adapting the play written in 1928 by American journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell, the production directed by Diana Mititelu brings together actors from different generations of the Constanța State Theatre ensemble, alongside young collaborators, and explores from a contemporary perspective the condition of women, shaped by intimate relationships and the social pressures that regulate their existence.

COMEDY SHOP

An evening of comedy at the theatre. The kind of show you go to after a long, hard day, but you leave heading home with a smile on your face. No lessons, no “important messages.” The actors are on stage, you’re in the audience, and somewhere in between, the comedy comes to life.

MARIA TĂNASE. STORY

„MARIA TĂNASE. A STORY ”is a one woman show that presents a version about the life of the famous singer, with less known aspects of her personality. Authentic documents, archive letters, excerpts from interviews, her thoughts and memories, analogies with Edith Piaf or Frida Kahlo, all make up a coherent image of a beautiful and strong woman. In a unique staging, with a lush imagery, the actress and singer Mirela Pană also performs six of the beautiful songs of Maria Tănase, accompanied by the pianist Elena Gatcin.

SEASIDE STORIES

SEASIDE STORIES, a succession of stories with different characters, with lightning encounters, short intense slice-of-life moments, perhaps some of those we have all lived, with feet full of sand, with wrinkled skin on which the sun dried the sea water, with senses constantly perceiving, beyond the events, in the background, the ripple of the waves, the mirror of the water with its never the same shades, the horizon, the stillness of the deep, the salty taste of the air, the smell of rotting seaweed and shells, the repetitive music of the terraces, the bright colours of the beach toys.
The common thread running through the stories is that feeling of a seaside holiday, which is shared, though not always realised, by those who live near it and those who return here year after year or at least from time to time.
And in all of them there is the sea, like a mythological character that fills all stories with its meaning.
Seaside Stories make us recall our own long-forgotten stories and understand what keeps us here or brings us back.

CAST:

RUNNING BEAUTIFULLY, HIGH KNEES by Tudor Ganea

Tudorel – Ștefan Mihai

Mother – Laura Iordan

Father – Iulian Enache

Cătălin – Theodor Șoptelea

Haughty Lilly – Liliana Ghiță / Mirela Pană

Bitălz – Marian Adochiței

Thugs – Andrei Bibire, Alexandru Burcă, Cătălin Bucur

Rockeritzele – Anaïs Agi-Ali, Mihaela Velicu, Lana Moscaliuc, Alina Manțu, Cristiana Luca

FRAGILE by Simona Goșu

Girl – Cristiana Luca

Mother – Nina Udrescu

VIENI QUA by Marius Chivu

She – Cristiana Luca

He – Theodor Șoptelea

Paco – Ștefan Mihai

Monica – Liliana Cazan

ALL THE EARRINGS IN THE VAMA BEACH by Lavinica Mitu

She – Mihaela Velicu

He – Marian Adochiței

Couples: Alina Manțu și Andrei Bibire, Cătălin Bucur și Cristiana Luca, Lana Moscaliuc și Anaïs Agi-Ali, Alexandru Burcă si Ecaterina Lupu

The weird one out: Laura Iordan

AT THE SEA EAGLE - FISH IN ITS CLAW by Marius Chivu

The Boy – Andrei Bibire

Thugs – Cătălin Bucur, Alexandru Burcă, Ștefan Mihai, Theodor Șoptelea, Remus Archip

SHE USED TO LIKE THE SEA by Nicoleta Dabija

She – Lana Moscaliuc

Them: Alina Manțu, Laura Iordan, Anaïs Agi-Ali, Mihaela Velicu, Cristiana Luca, Lana Moscaliuc

WYOMING by Marius Chivu

Cezar Dumitrescu – Cătălin Bucur

Mother – Liliana Cazan

The Girl – Anaïs Agi-Ali

Minions – Mihaela Velicu, Ecaterina Lupu, Andrei Bibire, Alexandru Burcă, Theodor Șoptelea, Cristiana Luca, Ștefan Mihai

Poem: YOU ARE DRIFTING AWAYby Nina Cassian

Nina Udrescu

Other texts by Radu Afrim:

MC Seaside Stories – Cătălin Bucur

Pegas – Ștefan Mihai

Relu Pescărelu - Theodor Șoptelea

Haughty Lilly – Liliana Ghiță / Mirela Pană

Albano și Romina Power - Lana Moscaliuc & Marian Adochiței

Nana Mouskouri - Marian Adochiței

Bitălz' fans – Lana Moscaliuc, Mihaela Velicu, Laura Iordan, Alina Manțu, Ecaterina Lupu, Cristiana Luca

The Punk – Cătălin Bucur

Monica – Liliana Cazan

SEASIDE STORIES

CAST:

RUNNING BEAUTIFULLY, HIGH KNEES by Tudor Ganea

Tudorel – Ștefan Mihai

Mother – Laura Iordan

Father – Iulian Enache

Cătălin – Theodor Șoptelea

Haughty Lilly – Liliana Ghiță / Mirela Pană

Bitălz – Marian Adochiței

Thugs – Andrei Bibire, Alexandru Burcă, Cătălin Bucur

Rockeritzele – Anaïs Agi-Ali, Mihaela Velicu, Lana Moscaliuc, Alina Manțu, Cristiana Luca

FRAGILE by Simona Goșu

Girl – Cristiana Luca

Mother – Nina Udrescu

VIENI QUA by Marius Chivu

She – Cristiana Luca

He – Theodor Șoptelea

Paco – Ștefan Mihai

Monica – Liliana Cazan

ALL THE EARRINGS IN THE VAMA BEACH by Lavinica Mitu

She – Mihaela Velicu

He – Marian Adochiței

Couples: Alina Manțu și Andrei Bibire, Cătălin Bucur și Cristiana Luca, Lana Moscaliuc și Anaïs Agi-Ali, Alexandru Burcă si Ecaterina Lupu

The weird one out: Laura Iordan

AT THE SEA EAGLE - FISH IN ITS CLAW by Marius Chivu

The Boy – Andrei Bibire

Thugs – Cătălin Bucur, Alexandru Burcă, Ștefan Mihai, Theodor Șoptelea, Remus Archip

SHE USED TO LIKE THE SEA by Nicoleta Dabija

She – Lana Moscaliuc

Them: Alina Manțu, Laura Iordan, Anaïs Agi-Ali, Mihaela Velicu, Cristiana Luca, Lana Moscaliuc

WYOMING by Marius Chivu

Cezar Dumitrescu – Cătălin Bucur

Mother – Liliana Cazan

The Girl – Anaïs Agi-Ali

Minions – Mihaela Velicu, Ecaterina Lupu, Andrei Bibire, Alexandru Burcă, Theodor Șoptelea, Cristiana Luca, Ștefan Mihai

Poem: YOU ARE DRIFTING AWAYby Nina Cassian

Nina Udrescu

Other texts by Radu Afrim:

MC Seaside Stories – Cătălin Bucur

Pegas – Ștefan Mihai

Relu Pescărelu - Theodor Șoptelea

Haughty Lilly – Liliana Ghiță / Mirela Pană

Albano și Romina Power - Lana Moscaliuc & Marian Adochiței

Nana Mouskouri - Marian Adochiței

Bitălz' fans – Lana Moscaliuc, Mihaela Velicu, Laura Iordan, Alina Manțu, Ecaterina Lupu, Cristiana Luca

The Punk – Cătălin Bucur

Monica – Liliana Cazan

ALL MY SONS

In an America seemingly at peace after the Second World War, the Keller family appears to have survived every hardship. But beneath the calm surface of suburban life, a devastating truth simmers. Larry, the son who went missing on the front, is still awaited by his mother, Kate, who refuses to accept his death. Meanwhile, Chris, the younger brother, tries to build a future with Ann, Larry’s former fiancée.

Ann’s return to the Keller home sets off a chain reaction: long-buried secrets rise to the surface, and the respectable image of the father, Joe Keller, begins to crack. Behind his success lies a decision made during the war, a choice that cost human lives.

ORLANDO

Orlando, a young aristocrat in the Elizabethan age, magnetic, restless, and eager for experience, embarks on a journey that defies both time and identity. Over the course of centuries, he moves through love affairs and shifting social conventions, until, in a moment wrapped in mystery, he becomes a woman.

The heroine continues her life in a world revealed through new rules, new limits, and new expectations. The same being, yet with a rewritten destiny, Orlando encounters both the freedoms and the constraints imposed by gender, discovering just how fragile and arbitrary identity can be.

Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation transforms Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel into a poetic, playful, and strikingly contemporary performance in which time flows fluidly and the questions of who we truly are gain renewed urgency. It is a story about transformation, love, and the freedom to exist beyond any label.