The opening of The Emigrants by Sławomir Mrożek, translation: Stan Velea, will take place at the "Art Club" Studio, Friday, 5 June 2015, at 7 pm. Director: Tudor Lucanu, set designer: Cristian Rusu, lights: Jenel Moldovan. With: Matei Rotaru and Tudor Lucanu.
Sławomir Mrożek was born in 1930, in Poland and died in 2013 in Nice, France. He publishes feuilletons, humorous stories, shorter short stories, parodic novels. All his plays were written while abroad: Tango, The Tailor, The Portrait, Love in the Crimea etc. The play The Emigrants was published in 1974.
Throughout his works, the writer discusses moral problems, certain character traits, "ossified thought patterns", ridiculous and obsolete, resulting in a caricature-like and absurd sketch of the world.
In The Emigrants, Mrożek discusses the marginalizing experience of his own exile, of the refuge for various reasons, the play becoming a study on the condition of the exiled. Roommates AA and XX discuss, their dialogue gradually becoming a duel in which they unmask each other. Their story evolves in a crowded basement, where the thick and loud sewer pipes also serve as...seats for the spectators. Two uncomfortable chairs and an unpolished wooden table complete the poor space in which the two parts are firmly and giftedly delivered by the two protagonists - one of them being the director of the production himself.
