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ADVENTURES IN IMMEDIATE UNREALITY

 

script by Tudor Lucanu, after Max Blecher


director: Tudor Lucanu
set design: Tudor Lucanu
costumes: Zsófia Gábor
music: Radu Dogaru


Cast:
Radu Dogaru, Cecilia Lucanu-Donat, Matei Rotaru, Cosmin Stănilă, Alexandra Tarce


stage manager: Doru Bodrea
lights technician: Mădălina Mânzat, Andrei Mitran
sound technician: Vasile Crăciun

The world of Max Blecher's autobiographical prose was shaped under the pressure of the certainty of premature death, following an implacable diagnostic. In his writings, illness is manifested as an inner assault on the self and mediates the narrator's perception of the world or of daily occurrences. The sense of one's own identity is therefore suspended in a diffuse reality, continuously deconstructing itself. In Adventures in Immediate Unreality, a staging of Blecher's first novel, director Tudor Lucanu explores, through visual and performing means, the fight with the instability of conscience and memory, which the hero tries to encompass in a fixed picture, but is instead condemned to an eternal and nightmarish reconfiguration. At first sight appearing to trace the contours of a place of inner peace, the set of this dissolving life then turns in an extension of constant turmoil. The people populating the character's intimate history creep through to his imprecise reality, increasing the stupor that the man keeps living like in an endless lucid dream. Thus, juggling surreal images and themes, the director transcribes in dramatic language the intensely poetic experience of losing the self.

 

 

"My intention for Adventures in Immediate Unreality was a performance on the spectrum of living statues, having as a starting point the main theme of Max Blecher's novel, the Panopticon. The action of moving through life events is seen from the perspective of an ‘endless contemplation of panoramic storefront windows', where wax statues become characters trapped in a reality so subjugated by the banal, that it becomes unreal."

Tudor Lucanu


 


Opening date: Friday, April 25 2025

Next performance
Wednesday, June 25 2025, at 19:00
"Euphorion" Studio
16+
1h 10 min.