"I fully endorse the author's love for the Romanian language and his direct and indirect messages addressed to the Romanian people, which were very well received by the audience that filled the Media Hall, but messages pass and sins remain, unfortunately. The script was elaborated with literary painstakingness from Caragiale's writings, and from political writings, and from memories, and was systematized for the duration of an easily digestible performance, with three performance spaces, in the classic formula already assimilated by generations, by the descendants - descendants of Nenea Iancu. The public's adherence was complete and we noticed the presence in the hall of three generations.

A true master of comedy, the performer navigated in a typical Caragiale style on well-known territory, with the exception of a few less acoustically rendered moments, but the funny lines got through.

The formula of displaying more or less popular writings of Romanian satirists must be continued by our first stage without any reservations and with absolute success! I believe that a Tudor Muesatescu recital, with his beautiful and famous typicalities, could be a project of great resonance and a proof of interpretative mastery. I don't think that Romanian humor stops at Tanța and Costel, nor at this level of satirization of the comic reservoir of contemporary authors that many cultural institutions pass over so easily. In fact, we have what we want, but we can do a lot more than that!"

Dinu Grigorescu, Rinocerul magazine no. 2/2023

"... this performance, beyond its serious aspect, also has a playful aspect, designed to amuse and create a closeness between the person on stage and the spectator. It is a feeling of intimacy, translated by: this is me, the author, known to you all, and I have come before you to present myself as I really am (...)

This kind of performance makes it easier to understand the depth of the author born in Ploiesti, to understand his political and life concepts, but also to discover the friendships and experiences he had since childhood. For students and younger people discovering Romanian literature, the performance is more than necessary, because it is an escape from the dryness of the school curricula. (...)

One lesson we can learn from this recital is that life can be lived and seen as a performance and only you can determine whether you get applause or booing during it. Just as, night after night, an actor comes before an audience and devotes all his energy to playing his character, and at the end is rewarded with applause, so should others live their lives with energy and vitality. After all, that's what Caragiale did, he enjoyed every moment of it and let no one divert him from his path. And as a result, his work lives on today, with his texts being read and applauded with great success by countless generations of people".

Andrei Bulboacă, Fictiunea.ro - Caragiale 2.0  

"Nicolae Urs, an actor with a rich activity, at a respectable age, has the courage to create an original performance, with and about I.L. Caragiale (...)

Sometimes he sings, sometimes he dances, he shouts, in order to engrave in the mind of today's audience the political and cultural issues of the time.

Starting from an article in which Caragiale writes how actors should be on stage - that is, to have the "devil inside them" - in the NTB performance, Nicolae Urs has theatre in his blood. He succeeds in keeping the audience's attention for an hour or so and bringing back to mind glimpses of I.L. Caragiale's hectic life.

All praise to him!"

Candid Stoica, Viața medicala - A different kind of Caragiale  

"... The spirited staging of Nicolae Urs - a bath of Caragiale delights us, asks us to reflect and recognize ourselves, amuses us to a point, worries and embarrasses us from that point on. The physicality and charm of the actor who is probably playing the role of a lifetime seem to transport us back over a hundred years. The performance is all the more creditable because the man did his own text selection, direction and set design. We found not only a perfect mask of Nenea Iancu, but also his bittersweet wit, his mixture of cynicism, irony and candor".

Bogdan Burileanu, Liternet - Eternal National Diagnosis - A Different Caragiale...  

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu