Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

by Morris Panych –– Directed by: Radu Afrim

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Synopsis

Troubled times: In 60s Canada, Iris, a 10 year-old girl, lives together with her parents and Miss Rose, a less liked tenant, in an ocean front house. With great affection, the little girl educates the adults in the midst of whom she lives, goes to catholic school – but considers herself to be a Buddhist – and loves her goldfish, until one day when it disappears from the already joyless home, just like all ephemeral things. On the same day her mother decides to leave her family, but fate seems to thwart her intentions. Shortly afterwards, Iris brings home a …
Troubled times: In 60s Canada, Iris, a 10 year-old girl, lives together with her parents and Miss Rose, a less liked tenant, in an ocean front house. With great affection, the little girl educates the adults in the midst of whom she lives, goes to catholic school – but considers herself to be a Buddhist – and loves her goldfish, until one day when it disappears from the already joyless home, just like all ephemeral things. On the same day her mother decides to leave her family, but fate seems to thwart her intentions. Shortly afterwards, Iris brings home a shipwrecked man who is so very much like her goldfish that she starts believing in reincarnation. Will he succeed in reuniting this family?

Photo gallery

Horia Săvescu
Alex Halka
Rareş Hontzu
Olga Török

Trailer

Distribution

Silvia Török

Iris

Georg Peetz

Owen

Olga Török

Sylvia

Rareş Hontzu

Miss Rose

Konstantin Keidel

Sailor

Raul Bastean

Sailor

Horia Săvescu

Mr. Lawrence

Assistant director

Radu Vulpe

Technical direction

Costinel Stănescu

Make-up

Lucia Preda

Assistant scenographer

Ioana Popescu

Stage Direction

Radu Afrim

Set and costumes, Light-Design

Dragoș Buhagiar

Light-Design

Emeric Nagy

Light-Design

Botond Nosz

Music Illustration

Radu Afrim

Sound-Design

Alex Halka

Dramaturgy

Valerie Seufert

Reviews

"Although tears may flow, this show of perfect beauty, like that of a fine porcelain doll, makes one believe that the goldfish actually does exist sometimes. And since it grants us three wishes, here we go: 1. It would be nice if the future UNITER jury nominated Silvia Török for the Debut Award. She is so good in the little girl's part that, when they walked out of the hall, people wondered how old that child really was and how could she have memorized all those lines. In real life, she is a true actress, a fresh graduate from Cluj, …

Gabriela Lupu, in: România Liberă

"At the sight of the sunny Saharan setting installed by Dragoş Buhagiar, you may think that, this time, Afrim has directed a cheerful show. And then the pseudo-ending, which made me exclaim that Radu's happy endings erase all the previous drama, like a sponge erases a blackboard, something that has never been seen before in anything he staged (maybe a little bit, but just a little bit, in The Avalanche). I was so far off! Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, the latest show by Afrim, at the German State Theatre Timişoara, is nothing like that – it's balanced to the …

Cătălina Miciu, in: Ginger Group

"I don't know why or because of whom, but those performing here (especially Silvia Török, incredible and disturbing as the little girl Iris, Alex Halka, Olga Török, Horia Săvescu and Rareş Hontzu) are not known/rewarded/applauded as much as they should be in the Romanian theatre. They possess great talent, absolutely great, doubled by an obvious stage discipline, down to the finest details in the composition. This is something worth framing, my dear readers."


Florian-Rareş Tileagă, in: LiterNet.ro

"Although tears may flow, this show of perfect beauty, like that of a fine porcelain doll, makes one believe that the goldfish actually does exist sometimes. And since it grants us three wishes, here we go: 1. It would be nice if the future UNITER jury nominated Silvia Török for the Debut Award. She is so good in the little girl's part that, when they walked out of the hall, people wondered how old that child really was and how could she have memorized all those lines. In real life, she is a true actress, a fresh graduate from Cluj, where she studied under one of the best professors in the Romanian vocational education system, Miklos Bacs. 2. We would like that all actors in all theatres be as good as these Germans from Timişoara. And 3. Actually, you know what? We don't even need to make a third wish. The theatre goldfish is always with us and he answers by the name of Radu Afrim."


"At the sight of the sunny Saharan setting installed by Dragoş Buhagiar, you may think that, this time, Afrim has directed a cheerful show. And then the pseudo-ending, which made me exclaim that Radu's happy endings erase all the previous drama, like a sponge erases a blackboard, something that has never been seen before in anything he staged (maybe a little bit, but just a little bit, in The Avalanche). I was so far off! Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, the latest show by Afrim, at the German State Theatre Timişoara, is nothing like that – it's balanced to the very end, when it made me cry heavily and want to jump from my seat and rush onto stage and hug the little girl who swam through her childhood years like Ahmal the fish. In a circle. […] these five characters brought together by the Canadian playwright Morris Panych and into which Afrim breathed life (as flickering as it may be, and filled with emptiness and feelings reflected upon rather than felt) seem isolated from any reality that they should live outside their home on the sea shore, but they are so well-anchored in their own lives, like in a fishing trawl, that one starts to think that any possible change would unbalance and destroy them. A mere illusion."


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