A COMEDY OF THE HUMAN FAILURE

An expressionistic network with lots of junctions inspired by: Franz Kafka, Daniil Charms, Jaroslav Hasek and Eugene Ionesco.

Directed by Cosmin Chivu
Costumes Ovidiu Buta
Choreography: Varvara Stefanescu
With Irina Scutariu/ Adelaida Zamfira, Octavian Jighirgiu/ Mihai Baranga, Cosmin Chivu.
The show was produced in 1997 and performed in Romania (the French Institute of Bucharest, ARCUB Institute, CCF-Iasi) and United States (UBU Repertory Theatre- NYC, and RA-Washington DC)

In an apparently serene harmony of the collective, the high pressure of the nonsense dominates the chain of scenes leading to an open handbook of anonymity and anxiety. There is no simple alternative, except for a series of random combinations between performers and spectators. The togetherness of the latter may defeat absurdity and failed communication among characters, based on impersonal, neutral language. Is there a possible limit to confusion? Laughter could be the only way out. It stimulates the basic innocence and imagination as a response to the inner rhetoric of the text.