Press Reviews

The great advantage of this show is its artistic objectivity. We are not witnesses to a sad story, we do not only mourn the martyr condemned without appeal and we do not pity ourselves for what we were meant to live. The historical fact is the starting point for an artistic act. Once a playwright, the content of the file "The Student" is a material as bidder as a well written play, if fallen into the right hands. The subjective-emotional load with all its baggage of residual feelings that are stored in those who were contemporaries of Mugur Călinescu is transformed into artistic pretense.  It is indeed life squared, it is indeed the mirror of that world, it is really theater. And theater beats life in this case.

Alina Epingeac - Yorick.ro , September 23, 2013

Rarely, very rarely we meet such performances that are life "lessons" inspired by historical concreteness, loaded with emotion, tension and truth, produced with theatrical means that are not from the classical convention. Gianina Carbunariu and her team propose a "different kind of theater", challenging for thinking and judging of the not so distant past of our history, and that is reported subtly to the present. ( ... ) The unique show of Gianina Cărbunariu and her team, under the formula of a "different kind of theater" is an event sustained undisputedly by Odeon Theatre. Go and see "Typographic Capital Letters" because you will not regret it!

Ileana Lucaciu - Blogspot , September 22, 2013

A document-show, "Typographic Capital Letters” should be a kind of wake-up call for a society that is still not able to take upon itself the mistakes of the past, moreover, it leaves the former oppressors and perpetrators continue to live in a sheltered existence.

Silvia Dumitrache – Observatorul Cultural , September 26-October 2

Query of such serious and vital theme by using artistic means seems to be the most effective way of confronting with untold unresolved truths or, even worse, with the mystification of historical truth. Gianina Carbunariu and her exquisite actors invite us to this honesty exercise - a case of dozens, hundreds of thousands of cases, reconstructed dramatically and spectacularly before our eyes, another way to probe awareness and to invite to a debate.

Razvan Nita - port.ro , October 4, 2013

The team’s work is firstly one required for sorting things out and for understanding of a past largely responsible for our post-communist present. Young Alexandru Potocean, Gabriel Răuță, Mihai Smarandache and Silvian Vâlcu create a dynamic group that easily adjusts theirs means to the demands of the show (change of role, working with video camera, technical maneuvers on the stage...). Catalina Mustață joins them from another more mature generation, in a unique pose, playing the role of the mother with conviction and attachment, a mother that is caught between the dilemma of maternal love versus social obligations.
As the voice of civil society, the performance advocates for regaining the right to take attitude.

Doina Papp - revista 22 , October 8, 2013

The whole show is in fact a strong one from an artistic and emotional point of view; it is impeccably designed and flawlessly played. Based on a scenario without a crack, the surprising collations of facts and documents, Typographic Capital Letters means a great, a terrific examination of conscience.

Mircea Morariu - adevarul.ro , October 30, 2013