The show is a production of the "Tamási Áron" Theatre from Sfântu Gheorghe and is presented as part of the National Theatre Festival 2022.

The performance is not recommended for people under the age of 16.

Performance in Hungarian with Romanian subtitles.

Based on the screenplay of Stefan Arsenijević's film of the same title.

"Love and Other Crimes" is the story of one day, the big day of a woman lost among gangsters and the slums of a Balkan neighborhood.

Anica is the mistress of a declining mobster from a marginal area of Belgrade, and one day she decides to run away and start a new life. In one day, one day only, from morning till night, the woman in her 30s tries to implement her secret escape plan, a plan that gets complicated in a Balkan style and becomes a story of Love and Other Crimes. A bitter, bizarre, leering and melancholic tale.

The world is full of fugitives. If we were to identify just one character on whom two arts, theatre and film, have made a career, his name is The Fugitive. Theatre and film are full of fugitives, because people have been wanting to run-run-run-run for as long as anyone can remember! And they run from misery, poverty, their minds, their misfortunes and their illnesses, they run from ghosts, from loneliness. They run after a chimera. They run from fear. And Anica wants to run away from a world in which even she doesn't know how trapped she is. A world to which Anica is linked through Milutin - the mob lover, through his daughter Ivana - the extremely vulnerable and addicted to her suicidal tendencies, through Stanislav - the sentimental and loving gangster who opens the way to an impossible love, through his mother - a senile singer whose son secretly finances her passion for music.

Photography: Zsolt Barabás

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu