“It’s Only the End of the World” and “Electra”, the TNRS premieres at the beginning of the year

The “Radu Stanca” National Theatre in Sibiu has put on sale the tickets for the performances in the first months of 2025, when the audience will have the opportunity to watch two remarkable premieres:

“We continue to offer the public exceptional projects and outstanding artistic proposals. In the beginning of 2025, we bring two remarkable productions to the stage.

In January, Eugen Jebeleanu returns with an exceptional staging, It's Only the End of the World, at the German Department. In February, at the Romanian Department, we bring back the memorable Electra, directed by Mihai Măniuțiu, in an updated version.

All these initiatives are dedicated to our audiences, who are our raison d’être and with whom we are building a dialogue between past, present, and future”, said Constantin Chiriac, General Manager of the TNRS and President of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival.

“It's Only the End of the World/Einfach das Ende der Welt” will have its avant-premiere and premiere on January 18 and 19, respectively, at 7:00 p.m., at Promenada Mall Sibiu, first floor.

“It's Only the End of the World is an installation performance about abandonment and the acute feeling 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 at home. 

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 be born from the healing of trauma and the imminence of the end?” said director Eugen Jebeleanu.

The public is expected to see “Electra” on February 1 and 2, from 5:00 p.m. at the TNRS Great Hall.

“Twenty years after its premiere, Electra is transmitting its energy and sap to a new generation of actors. What is the secret of its longevity – and of this privileged destiny? I think it is love. Those who have acted, those who are acting, and those who will act in the show fall in love with it successively. The actors in the inaugural cast and those who are taking up the baton today, as well as Constantin Chiriac – without whom this revival would not have been possible – both love this show, and their passion makes Electra stand once again under a lucky star”, said Mihai Măniuțiu.

Tickets are available at the Theatre Agency (Str. Nicolae Balcescu 17, Sibiu) and online at www.tnrs.ro.