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God of the Gaps
Reading performance
by Andrei Tiberiu Majeri
God of the Gaps
Reading performance
by Andrei Tiberiu Majeri
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God of the Gaps is the winning play of the National Drama Competition, organized by the Romanian Writers' Union and the National Museum of Romanian Literature.
God of the Gaps, with the subtitle Variations on the Theme of Genocide, accompanied by a suggestive motto from Georg Büchner's Danton's Death. Seven monologues—confessions of participants, victims, or executioners in the atrocities of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, reflections on the human condition, on what is moral, immoral, and amoral, what is permissible and what is not, personal justifications in the face of political and historical arguments. Each of the characters has their own truth, their own drama, their own vision of the present and the past. A world without geographical borders, but especially without borders between people, has changed through force, fear, and cruelty. More accurately, the borders, which had become invisible over time through coexistence, became visible through separation. (...) A open text due to the absence of the judge-judged relationship. – Ioan Cristescu, literary critic and historian, member of the jury of the National Drama Competition
Andrei Majeri's play is compelling thanks to its authentic characters, the vibrancy of its stories, and its original way of translating grand history into slices of life. The journalistic style, intertwined with writing that is as much about direct theatricality as it is about quality literature, finds a special connection with the audience in his play. Or readers.
A retrospective and introspective look at recent history, psychoanalysis, and realistic theater, God of the Gaps interrogates the Bosnian War 30 years later, but its gaze is directed toward a present that seems to have learned nothing from the lessons of history, whether old or new.
Seven monologues, like an X-ray, composed of memories of events and analysis of traumas, embody complex characters, both victims and executioners, in a play with an undeniable theatrical structure. – Cristiana Gavrilă, theater critic
Andrei Tiberiu Majeri is a Romanian theater director. In 2023, he was awarded the "Lucian Pintilie" prize for best director at the Uniter Gala for the play Who Killed My Father? by Edouard Louis.
In 2022, he directed the play Blind Spot in Novi Sad (Serbia). As an emerging playwright, he has written plays that have won the Bacău Fest Monodrame (″Individual Compus″, True Blue) edition, translated into English (Dingo Dogs), two of which have been staged (Amplexus, ″Individual compus″).
Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu
| Willem: | Emilian Oprea | Hatidza: | Iuliana Moise |
| Milovan: | Gavril Pătru | John: | Dragoş Stemate |
| Radoje: | Eduard Adam | Father Ante: | Dorin Andone |
| Fahreta: | Aylin Cadîr |