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GSTT hosts the performance “Mother’s Eyes”
The German State Theatre Timișoara invites the public to the performance “Mother’s Eyes”, which will take place on Tuesday, November 25, at 7:30 PM—an event that brings back into focus one of the most discussed and sensitive contemporary novels: “The Summer When Mum Had Green Eyes” by Tatiana Țîbuleac. The production offers a deeply emotional exploration of a relationship marked by absences, old wounds, and unexpected flashes of tenderness, in an artistic form that blends intimacy with the visual and sonic power of theatre.
At the center of the performance is the story of Aleksy, a young man who, faced with the imminent death of his mother, is forced to reconsider his entire childhood and all the gestures he never understood, never accepted, or never had the courage to speak about. The mother’s illness becomes the catalyst for a flow of repressed memories, for brutal honesty, and for an inner dialogue that pushes him to see beyond anger, guilt, and the distance accumulated over time.
For the first time, Aleksy looks his mother in the eyes—a gaze marked by liberating harshness but also by a fragility that reveals subtle, unseen bonds with those whom, even when we lose them, we continue to carry within us. The performance captures precisely this tension between rejection and the need for closeness, between memory and the present, between life and what remains after.
The production places at its core the performativity and vulnerability of a single actor, Vlad Ionuț Popescu, who becomes the pivot of the entire scenic universe. In “Mother’s Eyes”, theatre becomes a space for therapy, introspection, and poetic transfiguration.
The staging approaches with sincerity a difficult theme: how love is reconfigured on the threshold of loss. “The summer when mum had green eyes never truly ended” becomes, in the performance, the statement of a late but necessary closeness—a summer compressed into one final attempt to mend what once seemed irreparable.
Cast: Vlad Ionuț Popescu
Dramatization: Tania Drăghici and Vlad Ionuț Popescu • Dramaturgical consulting: Mihaela Michailov • Director: Tania Drăghici • Set design: Maria Constantin • Choreography: Iulia Lupașcu • Musical composition: Ramona Niculae • Musical illustration: Darius Corneci • Sound design: Robert Găgeată • Associate theatre scholar: Daria Ancuța • Associate psychiatrist / Assistant director: Andra Sultan • PR & Communication: Anna Aroș, Larisa Popa • Producer: Viorel Cojanu
The performance is presented in Romanian, without translation into German or English.
