PLAYBOY of the WESTERN WORLD
by J.M.Synge
I want the performance to be floating in primitive essences. The barrel is the Matrix of this world. It will become a table, a chair, a hiding spot, a drum, a bath-tube, a counter, a manger. You drink from it, you sleep in it, you play it, you have a bath in it.
This world is full of contradictions and ambivalences, it is a world greedy for cruel events, a world that knows no half measures, it is a world in which love joins with murder and cowardice joins the real spiritual force.
Nona Ciobanu
Youth Theatre, Piatra Neamt
1994
Directed by
Nona Ciobanu
Set & costume design
Silviu Bejan
Sound Design
Cristi Tarnoveţchi
Light Design
Vasile Popovici
Photos
Cornel Miftode
Poster and leaflet design:
Gabriel Decebal Cojoc
Galerie foto
Distribuție
Christopher Mahon
Iulian Bălţătescu
Old Mahon
Ion Muscă
Michael James Flaherty
Romeo Tudor
Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
Lelia Ciobotariu
Widow Quin
Oana Albu
Shawn Keogh
Traian Grigoriu
Jimmy Farrell
Lucian Pavel
Philly Cullen
Radu Băiţan
A Mute
Mihai Danu
Nelly
Lucreţia Mandric
Sara Tansey
Afrodita Androne
Susan Brady
Gina Gulai
Awards
Fragmente din presa
Nona Ciobanu determinedly approaches the most general concept of the theatre turning ideas into the plasticity of stage image.
The Piatra Neamt show features nine of the thirteen young actors recently hired by the local theatre. The shock wave created by the intense performance of so many young actors resulted in a remarkable impact of the visual concept.
Marian Popescu - Luceafărul
The show entitled The Playboy of the Western World moves the audience by means of its provoking hidden discourse. A theatre of elementariness.
The performance lives its own life, it is responsibly elaborated and it is articulated in its hyper-reality effects.
From the group of the nine young actors coming to Piatra Neamt together with the directress I mention Iulian Baltatescu whose role and presence on the stage in this performance are remarkable.
Cristian Livescu - Ceahlaul
We must point out the simplicity and functionalism of the set design Nona Ciobanu's previous staging accustomed us to.
In this unadorned geometry, following a refined interpretation of Synge's original text, Nona Ciobanu succeeds in creating a show that reveals the gist of love and hatred, life and death.