Bogdan Costin’s THE ATTEMPT opens on Friday, 11 April 2014, at 7pm, in the "Euphorion" Studio of the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre. Director and stage designer: Timur Felix Mihancea. Cast: Cristian Rigman (Mario), Diana Buluga (Roxana), Silvius Iorga (Victor), Emanuel Petran (Domnul Pop).
The play The Attempt, by the young playwright Bogdan Costin, won the competition "Cluj Playwrights 2013" which aims to promote new talents from Cluj and to stage plays which have not yet had the chance of a premiere. The competition was launched in June 2013 by the JAD Association in partnership with the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre and the Cluj Napoca City Hall.
The play brings forth a contemporary topic, both delicate and problematic. A young photographer, addicted to video games, tormented by his own failures and desire for revenge, turns his revolt and disgust against the world around him in a horrific premeditated murder. The "weapon" of his attempted political assassination is the person closest to him, his ex-girlfriend, now HIV positive. Victim and executioner, she will infect the son of an unrighteous politician with the deadly disease. Self-destruction, animosity and passionate neuroses come to life on stage through a permanent game of dialogues, video projections and music from virtual worlds.
The director of the production, Timur Felix Mihancea, graduated from both the Faculty of Theatre and Television (BA in Directing and Theatre Studies) and the Faculty of Law, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, and has an MA in Playwriting. He wrote several plays, two of which were publicly read. He is the founder of the "Teatroem" Cultural Association which organizes the program Grasping Exercises, meant to promote contemporary Romanian poetry through theatre. Together with Mircea Laszlo, he directed, within this program, the performance When the lights are turned off the whispers are turned on. In 2011 he directed the production Game without user guide by Roxana Magdalena Pântice at the Theatre 74 from Târgu-Mureş.
