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German State Theatre Timișoara

Blessed

by Simona Vintilă –– Stage direction: Simona Vintilă

Blessed is a play about painful revelations, love and suffering, disease and decline, belonging and unsettling, about longing and distress and, most importantly, about the impact that an unsparing disease – Alzheimer’s – bestirs on the day to day life of a modern family. The text pens the story of the husband which is always away on business trips, of the daughter –studying abroad – and of the mother, the main character, living all alone, more and more objected by her daily routine and by the inevitable stress of quotidian life. In the empty spaces left by these relationships, illness becomes personified with the sole purpose of externalizing the anguish of the decayed family, giving wholeness to the modernity of this glass menagerie. The self referential quality of the text, gives the play a sincere and unambiguous description of the ailments which Alzheimer’s disease bestirs on those affected by this illness and, also, on the close ones. 

Premiere: May 11, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 01:40

Cast

Her
Simona Vintilă

Him
Franz Kattesch

The Daughter
Isa Berger

The Psychiatrist
Rareș Hontzu

Alois
Radu Brănici (a.G.)

The Disease
Dana Borteanu

The Pianist
Aurel Dragalina (a. G.)
Stage direction
Simona Vintilă

Assistant director
Harald Weisz

Set and costumes
Ioana Popescu

Original score
Ilie Stepan (a.G.)

Video design
Cristian Ienciu

Dramaturgy
Andrea Wolfer

Technical Direction
Radu Muj

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