by Ion Sapdaru, directed by Eugen Făt
Cast
Pompiliu: Pavel Bartoş
Vanda: Dorina Lazăr
Cesonia: Rodica Mandache
Mirela: Angela Ioan
Lili: Nicoleta Lefter
Directed by: Eugen Făt
Stage design: Constantin Ciubotariu
Tours and festivals
Theatre Festival “Mircea Albulescu”, Câmpina, 25 November 2017
The European Theatre Workshop, Ruse (Bulgary), June 19, 2014
Reper 65 – Theatrical Caravane, Arad, 12 November 2013
Theatre Festival in Piatra Neamţ, 18 October 2013
Theatre Festival for Children and Youth in Iasi, 6 October 2013
Romanian Comedy Festival - festCO, 10 June, 2012
Theatre Festival “No Borders”, Satu Mare, 21 May 2012
Tour in Tg. Jiu, 16 May 2012
Romanian Drama Festival, Timişoara, 8 May 2012
Tour in Tulcea, 1 May 2012
Tour in Focsani with STILL LIFE WITH FATTY NEPHEW, 27 March
Contemporary Drama Festival, Brașov, 27 November
Contemporary draMA Festival Theatre, Odorheiu Secuiesc, October 13, 2011
Stories for Children and Grown-ups Festival, Alba Iulia, October 9, 2011
Romanian Comedy Festival, Galaţi, October 3, 2011
Days and nights of European Theatre Festival, Brăila, October 2, 2011
Short Theatre Festival, Oradea, September 28, 2011
Tour at Călăraşi, September 19, 2011
VEDETEatru festival, Buzău, May 14, 2011
Awards
The Prize for Best Show at The Romanian Comedy Festival, Galaţi, 2011
Photo gallery
And love.
The show can be performed with subtitles in English, by request.
If you are interested, please let us know at the box office or by mail, at last two days before the show.
We kindly ask you to check if the subtitles are available before buying your tickets
Press Reviews
The director Eugen Făt skillfully avoided any artificial effects and unrolled the theatrical illustration using a nuanced interpretation of the actors. Without being ostentatious, using amusing effects, he imagined the passing of each of the three aunts and their appearances as ghosts. The directorial vision serves the theatric meaning of the text and gives as a result an attractive black comedy production, rarely encountered genre in the current repertoires, using a Romanian contemporary play, also absent from the theatres.
Ileana Lucaciu - ileanalucaciu.blogspot.com, April, 6th 2011
Still Life with Fatty Nephew is not cluttered with directorial schemes and it does not give definitive verdicts. The play is written with a great deal of humor and it greatly enhances the talent and the expressivity of the actors. Ion Sapdaru does not judge his characters, he does not underline their flaws and he does not embarrass them. He tells their story in an objective and balanced manner exactly in the way an intelligent parent would allow his child to choose his own path. Pompiliu is overweight, Lili is a prostitute, the three aunts sacrificed their lives out of love for their orphan nephew, and the memory of their sacrifice forces them to never let go of him, in this way also becoming his executioner. The text has all the humor, the absurd and the tragedy encountered in everyday life in which is imperiously needed to set the boundaries.
Cătălina Pavel - Cuvinte Libere, April, 13th 2011