On the canvas of this story-the War. The War of all ages, the Universal War that never ends...

HORSES AT THE WINDOW
By Matei Visniec

Translation by Daniela Sovea
Directed by Cosmin Chivu
Set and Costumes Nick Ularu
Lighting Design Sabrina Hamilton
Cast: Irina Scutariu, Octavian Jighirgiu, Cosmin Chivu, Marius Maftei, Oliver Sterian

The KO Festival of Performance in Amherst, Massachusetts, produced the play in July 1997.

First of all- a Woman The Woman as a Mother, as a Daughter, as a Wife who stands by her husband. She repeatedly sees the departure of her son, her father and her husband to the Great War" The afflicting ritual of every departure comes together with the macabre ritual of the Messenger’s visit. The visitor is the polite herald of bad news. Messenger: "I have always done it tactfully and delicately. I have always managed to break the most terrible news in the subtlest possible way" Indeed, with tact and subtlety, the Messenger announces the Woman that a horse at the barrack has killed her son, that her father has gone completely mad since the last battle, that his battle companions have crushed her Husband during the last assault. Little by little, the Messenger creeps in the Mother’s, Daughter’s, Wife’s private lives. Because the horrors of the war are never limited only to the battlefield, they penetrate deeper into hearts and souls, like a mental gangrene trying to pervert the entire human being.