Performance of Mine by Mădălina Stoica

Reactor in Cluj, Romania presents a performance of Mine by Mădălina Stoica, which was created in the sixth edition of the Drama 5 playwriting residency at Reactor. Each year, five playwrights spend a month at Reactor, writing, receiving mentorship from an experienced author and professor, and feedback from a number of young theatre professionals. In the end, one of the resulting plays is staged at Reactor, while the others have public readings. Mine is the staging of this year’s winner.

Synopsis:
A room with just one bed, a door and a window to nothing. Mine is a performance that speaks about the illusion of comfort and about things that connect us to each other so strongly that we stop seeing ourselves as whole individuals. How hard is it to leave when everything seems perfect?

Mine is a play about a brother and a sister who have to deal with their mother’s death. At the same time, it’s a play about two adults, about childhood trauma, about isolation, co-dependency, and forced growing up. And in the end, it’s a story about intimacy where I tried to answer the question: why do we stay?
—playwright Mădălina Stoica

Credits:

Mine
By Mădălina Stoica
Cast: Cătălin Filip, Raluca Mara, Alina Mișoc, Doru Taloș, Tavi Voina
Director: Raul Coldea
Set designer: Alexandra Budianu
Choreographer: Sergiu Diță
Assistant directors: Dominik Mario Iabloncic, Robert Kocsis

Duration: 100 min
For ages: 16+
Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English
Premiere date: 21 October 2021

This cultural event is co-funded by The National Cultural Fund Administration (NCFA), Romania. The project doesn’t necessarily express the views of The National Cultural Fund Administration. NCFA is not responsible for the content of this project, nor for the way its products are being used. That is solely the responsibility of the grant beneficiary.

About Reactor
Reactor is an independent theatre founded in 2014 and focusing on contemporary playwriting, artistic experiment, and social themes. It is also encouraging constant artistic development by organizing workshops for theatre professionals as well as the general public, and by offering residencies for emerging artists. Reactor is also working towards a more open and reciprocal relation with its audience, by audience developing programs, cultural mediation and community activities.

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