Cluj-Napoca National Theater announces the opening of the production American dream by Nicoleta Esinencu, which will take place in the "Art Club" Studio, Tuesday, 5 May, at 07 pm. Director: Leta Popescu, assistant director: Cătălin Filip, set design: Brândușa C. Bălan, assistant set designer: Gloria Gagu, video: Alexandru Lupea, Alexandru Ponoran, music: bhkata. The cast is comprised of the actresses Diana Buluga, Sînziana Tarța, Alexandra Tarce.
Favoring a documentary-political theater, Nicoleta Esinencu speaks in her play about the "American dream" and the "Russian" one, mixing English with Moldavian Romanian, in a collage-type structure having as a starting point the rules of the game "Monopoly". A Moldavian student crosses the ocean to the America of all possibilities, borrowing money for the trip. She returns not only without any earnings, but also forced to go in the opposite direction, Moscow, a place where new humilities await. In the intimate space of the "Art Club" Studio, the story of young Tatiana flows with great easiness in the interpretation of the three actresses led, in an inspired manner, by the director Leta Popescu.
Nicoleta Esinencu (born 1978 in Chișinău) is a playwright of Romanian origin from The Republic of Moldova, graduate of the Moldova State University of Arts, Playwriting and Script writing. She is the literary secretary of the "Eugène Ionesco" Theater from Chișinău. Author of the plays How to Write a Play, Fuck you, eu.ro.Pa!, The Seventh Whorehouse (co-author, together with Dumitru Crudu and Mihai Fusu), Zuckferei, Clear history. The play American Dream was written in 2014. In an interview, the author declared the following about her plays: „Perhaps some are inspired by reality, others provoked and others hurt. All I do is take pieces of reality and lay them on paper."
Leta Popescu (born. 1989) is at her fifth collaboration with Cluj Napoca National Theater. She was an assistant director for the performances The Star without a Name (director Alexa Visarion), Sânziana and Pepelea (director Alexandru Dabija), Mein Kampf (director Alexandru Dabija) and The Extraterrestrial Clowns (director Eli Simon). She graduated from the Faculty of Theater and Television, BBU Cluj, in 2013, majoring in Directing, and she is currently a MA student at the same faculty. For co-directing the production Parallel, at the Cluj Paintbrush Factory, Leta Popescu shared the 2014 UNITER Award for DEBUT with Lucia Mărneanu, performer in the production and with Ferenc Sinkó, co-director and choreographer of the production.
