Dan Puric turns the extravaganza of Victor Eftimiu into a love poem. It’s a performance about love and its metamorphoses, where happiness can become despair and despondency in a single moment, only to then transcend to hope and a never-ending search.

With Pearls, thread yourselves, the playwright helps us discover the path to ourselves. It makes us dream… Live the story… Dan Puric’s „story” overwhelms us with its grandness, but also with its gentleness – the trait that gets it closer to the essence of Romanian fairytale, to the sublimity of being, to the fundamental truth of life.

„I don’t know how, but Eftimiu created a modern fairytale without making it modern. He kept its energy, its innocence and beauty. He played with it. That is what I enjoyed with such fervour. I was drawn to the ludic aspect Eftimiu imprinted into the story. In a confused society lacking a moral compass and where we revel in disconcerting values, the fairytale makes things clearer and simpler. It cannot lie because it’s made for children. Nowadays, I find the need for fairytales vital, because as the world is getting uglier, the fairytales are a reflex of inward hygiene.”

This play is Romanian to the core and that is why it can be, at any time, international.” Dan Puric

Translated by Bianca-Lidia Zbarcea

MTTLC, University of Bucharest