It's Only the End of the World

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce

Directed by: Eugen Jebeleanu

Set design: Oana Micu

Original score and video: Ovidiu Zimcea

Light design: Cristian Niculescu
Choreography: Malena Silberschmidt
Assistant director: Patrick Imbrescu

With: Johanna Adam, Viviane Havrilla/Malena Silberschmidt , Marc Illich, Fabiola Petri, Gyan Ros

Technical direction: Nicușor Văcariu

Sound: Cătălin Scheau, Alex Androniciuc

Lights: Ion Macrea, Sergiu Pașcalău

Props: Nicu Dogaru

Booths: Angelica Ognean

Marketing Manager: Ioana Nistorescu

Synopsis

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"It’s Only the End of the World is an installation performance about abandonment and the acute sense of absence.

Louis returns home after many years to tell his family that he is going to die. He fails to make any confession, overwhelmed by the oppressive atmosphere in the house.

Amid the silences, anger, frustration, regret for the past pour out. But they fail to show their true emotions, to declare their love, to reveal secrets.

With this project I want to talk about loneliness and estrangement in the form of an immersive, sensory, and visceral theatre.

In a context in which extremism of all kinds is skyrocketing, I aim with this show to analyse the mechanisms of violence.

How can we combat hatred and fear? Can theatre (still) be the place to connect with oneself and with others? What can emerge from the healing of trauma and the imminence of the end?" – Eugen Jebeleanu