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20 YEARS IN SIBERIA

 

by Anița Cudla
adaptation by Sorin Misirianțu


director: Sorin Misirianţu
set and costume design: Cristian Rusu
set and costume design assistant: Felicia Ștefan


Cast:
Elena Ivanca
Sorin Misirianţu


stage manager: Vlad Negrea
lights technician: Ionuț Maier, Andrei Mitran
sound technician: Vlad Negrea
video projections: Vasile Crăciun
prompter: Alina Forna

20 Years in Siberia is a testimony-performance, a much-needed awareness of the martyrdom endured by the Romanian population of Northern Bukovina after this territory came under Soviet domination in 1940. A simple woman from a village near Chernivtsi, driven by the strength and pragmatism of generations that have lived through both world wars, not only survives arbitrary deportation with her three young sons, starvation, disease and forced labor, but manages to write one of the most moving chronicles of survival under the Stalinist terror. The director Sorin Misirianțu transposes the story of Anița Cudla, embodied by the actress Elena Ivanca, extracting the theatrical potential from the pages of the famous diary written by the Bukovinian and offering it to the audience in a concentrated and essentialized form. In this way, the tension between the integrity of a mother forced, at times, to defy even the laws of nature and the perversity of a discretionary system, embodied by the symbolic character of the Lieutenant, is discharged in a moving theatrical approach, which requires a deep exercise of empathy, both collective and individual.


"The population of Bukovina was part of a plan to annihilate the Romanians - sent as soldiers to the front line or to forced labor in hard-to-reach regions, where they died in unimaginable conditions. Our show has a duty to make us never forget this. Let us honor every day our heroes, our martyrs! If we achieve this through an artistic act, it means that our labor has not been in vain! We bow before these angels!"
Sorin Misirianțu
 


Opening date: February 2025

Next performances
Sunday, April 6 2025, at 19:00
Saturday, April 26 2025, at 17:00
"Euphorion" Studio
14+
1h