Horatiu Malaele’s acting skill is impressive, a skill that the actor refines at the utmost and gets comic effects by exploiting the absurd of gesture, mimic and voice. The actor uses his own body as a tool and, by parodying the natural features of the human being, is able to illustrate the absurd condition of the contemporary man: a deranged mimic that gets ahead or lags behind the uttered words, the repetition of some sentences until their absurd content eventually stands out , the reccurence of some gestures or the failure to follow them up, the use of the body like it is an elastic band that no one can control, the emission of bizzare sounds instead of certain words or in addition to them. All these tricks are well-thought procedures used by an inventive actor who properly intuits the sources of the absurd and uses them at the maximum in his performance. It is according to the same principle that the actor-stage director builds the other characters of the play.

Cristina Modreanu – Malaele’s Lesson

In 60 minutes, a professor of the stage and the pupil actresses manage to persuade the audience that the theatre can be a synonim of power – the power that embodies „a violent comic and violent dramatic” theatre. Typical for Ionesco.

Maria Sarbu - Horatiu Malaele’s Phantasmagoric Lesson.