The production AMALIA TAKES A DEEP BREATH by Alina Nelega, a one-woman show with Anca Hanu, directed by Tudor Lucanu, will be presented at the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) from Berlin on 15 January 2015, on the occasion of The Romanian Culture Day.
Alina Nelega’s monodrama presents episodes from the life of Amalia. She had passed through Communism in an aboulic state, from its beginning until its maximum darkness, and has now reached a new era of freedom, which proves to be equally confusing to her. The little communist girl - happy to be away from the German governess, the piano lessons, the French classes - grows confused by the losses in her life. But the traumas don’t transform her into a self-pitiful person. Instead, the character remains fantastically courageous and charmingly candid. Alina Nelega’s play does not reject the past, but sets it under the careful analysis of the present, theatrically rebuilding the past 50-60 years of national history.
The performance opened on 7 February 2014 and participated, in 2014, in such events as The Short Theatre Festival in Oradea, the International Meetings in Cluj and the National Theatre Festival in Bucharest. The actress Anca Hanu won the Award for Best Actress at the Short Theatre Festival in Oradea and the Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, offered by the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre within its annual International Meetings in Cluj.
The Berlin performance will be in Romanian, with German subtitles.
