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Important announcement!

From February 12^th 2014, the show Thieves by Dea Loher, performed at Studio Hall, will begin at 19.00. After this hour the access to the Small Hall will be denied for the public. Because the stage has the shape of an arena, the public can only be seated until the performance begins. We ask the audience to take this announcement into consideration and to present themselves at the entrance by 18.50 at the latest.

Thank you for your understanding!

Synopsis:

Dea Loher weaves together individual episodes. The characters bump into each other unnoticeably and rejoin in surprising circumstances. The audience is depicted a gloomy panorama of contemporary humanity, panorama that is nevertheless not entirely devoid of
comedy. Always on the edge of the abyss, and yet full of hope. Finn, an insurance broker, opens his eyes, aware that he wishes he would never wake up again. His sister, Linda, has seen a wolf... and the thermal centre she works at is threatened with bankruptcy. She still hopes it will be incorporated in a future natural park. Elke, their mother, lives in an elderly asylum and wishes to carry on a normal conversation, about the weather or the stars. And she is waiting for her dead son. Monica, shop assistant at a supermarket, has been promised a promotion by her boss... probably to manage a big shop in Holland. Her husband, Thomas, who is a policeman, would go with her. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt feel that they are being constantly followed. Who is following them? An animal? A man? Their past? The pregnant Mira doesn't want to give birth to her child. The father, Joseph, an older grave digger, wants to have his child by all means and at any price. Ira has been waiting for her husband for twenty years... playing Como la cigarra... at the rusty Anchor...

Radu Afrim shapes the world written by Dea Loher on the stage of the Studio Hall, turned into an Arena. A closed circle from where no character can escape. No life can be any longer
lived. A world affected by the sensitivity of fragile people who creep through their own lives, afraid and cautious, as if it did not belong to them. As if they were thieves... until the very End!

This is Radu Afrim's third performance of the plays written by Dea Loher, one of the most popular contemporary authors (after the plays Adam Geist, performed at Maria Filotti Theatre in Brăila and Roosevelt Square, performed at the National Theatre in Timişoara).

Translated by: Diaconescu Alina

MTTLC, The University of Bucharest