It's Only the End of the World

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce
Directed by: Eugen Jebeleanu
Set design: Oana Micu
Original score and video: Ovidiu Zimcea 
Light design: Cristian Niculescu
Choreography: Malena Silberschmidt
Assistant director: Patrick Imbrescu

With: Johanna Adam, Viviane Havrilla, Marc Ilich, Fabiola Petri, Gyan Ros, Malena Silberschmidt

Technical direction: Nicușor Văcariu
Sound: Cătălin Scheau, Alex Androniciuc 
Lights: Ion Macrea, Sergiu Pașcalău 
Props: Nicu Dogaru
Booths: Angelica Ognean
Marketing Manager: Ioana Nistorescu
"It’s Only the End of the World is an installation performance about abandonment and the acute sense of absence. 

Louis returns home after many years to tell his family that he is going to die. He fails to make any confession, overwhelmed by the oppressive atmosphere in the house. 

Amid the silences, anger, frustration, regret for the past pour out. But they fail to show their true emotions, to declare their love, to reveal secrets. 

With this project I want to talk about loneliness and estrangement in the form of an immersive, sensory, and visceral theatre. 

In a context in which extremism of all kinds is skyrocketing, I aim with this show to analyse the mechanisms of violence. 

How can we combat hatred and fear? Can theatre (still) be the place to connect with oneself and with others? What can emerge from the healing of trauma and the imminence of the end?" – Eugen Jebeleanu

Premiere Date:18-01-2025
Section:german