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The characters are cleverly characterized and the audience can relate to their typology. There are two conflicted neighbors - Tora (Maia Morgenstern) and Cora (Carmen Tanase) who live in a duplex with a garden. Tora, a divorced woman with intellectual pretensions, wants to isolate herself from Cora, a retired nurse who lives with her son Vigo (Vlad Zamfirescu). Tora's ex-husband (Mircea Rusu), who is quarrelling with his ex-girlfriend for whom he left his marriage, also intervenes in her life. The situations are inspired by current reality, full of humor and fine irony, with a thematic reference to communication between people with different destinies, couple relationships and parent-child relationships.

Imelda Manu attractively constructs the duplexes of the neighbors and the costumes of the characters, adapted to each one's pattern. Director-actor Vlad Zamfirescu aims to make the actor the basic theatrical element of the performance and he succeeds fully, with a cast of actors whose value is known. The actors live dramatically the situations in which the characters are involved, the result is always comic, but in a rare moment also dramatic.

Maia Morgenstern is an actress with a prolific career, she tackles multiple parts remarkably well composed. In Tora, the actress, even when she has no lines, conveys perfectly the state of the lonely woman who takes refuge in reading. She is excellent in every moment of the action and in the special relationships with her partners, but she stops the comic effect, so that it sensitively shifts towards the end to the dramatic note of the loneliness of the woman abandoned by her husband. After Martha's remarkable performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Odeon Theatre, Carmen Tanase is hardly recognizable as the retired nurse, caring for her son Vigo, now 40. Her Cora is a simple, energetic woman, the actress developing the character in nuance, in depth for each intervention in the action, resulting in impeccable comedy. Mircea Rusu is outstanding as the phantom Trent, the husband who silently preserves the traces of a betrayed marriage. Vlad Zamfirescu credibly portrays Vigo, dependent to a point on his mother, eager to free himself from the relationship. It is a great pleasure for the Great Audience to meet these personalities of our theatre, who are rewarded with applause during the performance for their brilliant performance in a play in which they find themselves.

Against all the Walls (Everything is transformed) is a long-awaited situation comedy for the audience marked by the damned pandemic, a very successful performance of real theatre, provoking the desired good mood, but also an inner thought on the "mirror" of a reality known by all.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu