"Theorem" after Pier Paolo Pasolini, directed by Eugen Jebeleanu, national premiere on the TNRS stage

The "Radu Stanca" National Theatre in Sibiu offers to the public a new premiere, "Theorem" after Pier Paolo Pasolini, directed by Eugen Jebeleanu. It’s for the first time this play is staged in Romania. Tickets for the performance on June 3, 19:00, at the Great Hall, are on sale at the Sibiu Theatre Agency and online at www.tnrs.ro.

The new TNRS production will also be staged during the Sibiu International Theatre Festival 2024, on June 26, at 4 PM, at TNRS Great Hall. Tickets are available on www.sibfest.ro.

“Theorem is about the stranger next door, a recurring theme in my projects, and this narrative has always been my main reference when analysing this aspect. After Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher and Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, texts that explore very deeply this theme of the other as a revealing factor of identity and intimate and political discovery, Theorem is my most authentic gesture today in my attempt to explore otherness regarding everything that goes outside the pattern, the norm, the conventional structures. With this text, and through the adaptation and contextualization of Yann Verburgh’s dramaturgy, I want to search for the repercussions of the stifled desire that awakens demons, but also identity revelations. As a fable of the new sexual revolution, I wish to conceive a performance about the dialogue between desire and assumption. The visitor, this object of impossible desire, becomes the engine that triggers the deepest and most visceral feelings, sensations, and instincts. Based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s novel, the dramaturgy and the directorial concept will revolve around the question: Who is the stranger in me, as a reflection of the mirror turned towards those who have alienated themselves. Are we in tune with who we are? Do we know ourselves? Do we have the freedom to take responsibility for our actions? These are some of the questions that we are asking the audience through this intimate and political manifesto.”, says director Eugen Jebeleanu.

The cast of the performance has the actors Gyan Ros, Cendana Trifan, Raluca Iani, Adrian Matioc, Antonia Dobocan, Radu Costea, Patrick Imbrescu, Horia Fedorca and Andrei Gîlcescu