"Hard to bear tension offset by waves of madcap humor, humanity and poetry in a setting with hints of Edward Hopper. Author, director and actors - all extraordinary."

Mircea Cărtărescu

"I've been choosing Afrim's world for so many years. And I believe in it. In perfect performances and just as much in imperfect ones. In the warped humanity that haunts him. That he seeks. Always. Without even trying. In words, in forms, in images, in sounds and sonorities, in poems and visceralities, in so many fragilities, in what he discovers and elevates in actors, in darkness and light, just a few meters away from me."

Marina Constantinescu, România literară - On the border between me and the other  

"A few people away from you" is a real, living performance, a co-production between NTB and the "George Cosbuc" Cultural Centre of Bistrița, born out of the desire - a restorative cultural act - to offer Bistrita a theatre, as a reverence of Radu and Dan towards the lands they come from, and out of the need to fix in the history of our drift the great family traumas of the small provincial habitats.

"A few people away from you", the perspective on Romanian life from Bistrita, has finally arrived in the capital and is here to stay. Oh, how I loved it!"

Horia Ghibuțiu, Blog – The little wonders a few people away from you  

"Nothing sadder than reality, tamed just enough to make us feel good, keep us from the ugly and guard us from dreams. We should be more vigilant, not to let it into our lives anyway, to let ourselves anchor at least from time to time in the dreams of those willing to stay by our side until the end of truth, where all seasons will one day end."

Luciana Antofi, Blog - Ode to our families: A few people away from Radu Afrim

"In A Few People Away from You there are whole worlds worth discovering, seeing and hearing, tensions between parents and children that we can all identify with, longings that we can all relate to. It is a profound, original, moving, brilliantly crafted and relevant performance for today."

Alexandra Ares, Rinocerul Magazine - What happens just a few people away from you?  

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

The performance was presented during the tour of the National Theater from Bucharest to Chisinau on the occasion of the 9th edition of the Romanian National Theaters' Meeting, 2024