Synopsis  
     
 

 

This is a trio of one-act plays about the passage of different guests through the same hotel room.

 

In "Tricks" Boca and Lou share Darlene, a hooker they pass back and forth as they exchange and appropriate each other's identities in alternating moments of confusion and revelation.

 

In "Blackout" Danny and Diane, an Oklahoma couple of the 1930s, cannot move beyond the grief of a personal tragedy. Refusing to accept the death of her son, Diane seeks refuge in low-level deliriums.

 

In the third play, "Mrs. Kashfi", a young boy experiences a spooky visitation while his mother voyages into the sea of clairvoyance with a fortune teller

   
     
 
 
  Performance Dates
     
  March 2008     (15, 16, 19, 28)
  April 2008     (05, 13, 24)
  May 2008     (04, 22, 30)
  June 2008     (07, 15, 28)
  July 2008     (06, 11)
  September 2008  

  (14*) *Mari Filotti Theatre (28)

  October 2008  

  (27*) Teatrul Tineretului

  November 2008     (08) *Festival National De Teatru
  January 2009     (09, 15)
  February 2009     (20)
  March 2009     (8)  (30*, 31*)
  April 2009     (11, 23)
  May 2009  

  (8, 18*) *Teatrul George Ciprian

  June 2009  

  (10)

  November 2009  

  (19)

  December 2009  

  (19)

  January 2010  

  (17)

  February 2010  

  (5)

  * 30.03.09  - Opera Nationala Romana Timisoara

  * 31.03.09  - Traian Grozavescu Theatre in Lugoj

  * 19.11.09 - Festivalului de Dramaturgie Contemporana, Brasov 
 
  Acting Credits
     

  Tricks

   

  Boca

 

  Marcel Iures

  Louis

 

  Mircea Constantinescu

  Darlene

 

  Antoaneta Zaharia

  Bell boy

 

  Mugur Arvunescu

  

 

  

  Blackout

 

  

  Danny

 

  Pavel Bartos

  Diane

 

  Antoaneta Zaharia

  Bell boy

 

  Mugur Arvunescu

  

 

  

  Mrs Kashfi

 

  

  Charlie

 

  Paula Niculita

  The Mother

 

  Antoaneta Zaharia

  Mrs Kashfi

 

  Liana Margineanu

  Mr. De Witt

 

  Mircea Constantinescu

  Rose

 

  Dorina Lazar

  Bell boy

 

  Mugur Arvunescu

     

  The Cleaner Boy

 

  Dan Iosif

  The Policemen

 

  Cristian Dunareanu and  

  

 

  Victor Cociorba

 
  Creative Team Credits
     

  Director

 

  Alexandru Dabija

  Translators

 

  Tamara Susoi and

  

 

  Alexandru Dabija

  Stage design

 

  Alexandru Dabija and

   

  Laura Paraschiv

  Writers

 

  Barry Gifford

 
     
    Theatre Information  
     
 

 

The Odeon Theatre, one of Bucharest’s leading theatre companies, was founded in 1946 as Giulesti Theatre. Inaugurated in 1974 the Majestic Hall of the theatre, in the very heart of the city, is the most elegant auditorium from Bucharest and the only one in Europe with sliding ceiling. In 1990, The Giulesti Theatre changed its name into The Odeon Theatre.

As one of the purposes of  Odeon is to educate young spectators, every week there are organized tours behind the stage followed by workshops for children and teenagers, within the programme "Theatre and School".

At the spectators’ request, the theatre organizes monthly TEXT ALIVE PERFORMANCES of contemporary Romanian drama followed by debates with the audience

Address: Calea Victoriei 40, Bucharest, Romania
Phone: (+40) 21 314 72 34
Email: rezervari@teatrul-odeon.ro
Web site: http://www.teatrul-odeon.ro/