The six protagonists - in addition to the aforementioned Ioana Iacob and Daniela Török, the artistic team also includes Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Tatiana Sessler-Toami, Olga Török and Silvia Török - appear one after the other in the collage, which was put together in a first-class manner by Carmen Lidia Vidu. They do not act, but tell about their passions and weaknesses, fears and depressions. It is amazing and at the same time touching how the actresses relentlessly reveal their dreams, thoughts and feelings. The wide selection of different age groups - ranging from 31 to 71 - makes it possible to cover a large time span: life during the communist Ceauşescu dictatorship, the massive emigration of the Swabians, the contemporary precarious working conditions. The inadequate Romanian school system is questioned, as are the lack of animal protection laws. Theater and cultural life are also examined, especially the fact that Timisoara is a controversial project as European Capital of Culture in 2021.

Irina Wolf, critic

"… and a production featuring six outstanding German-speaking actresses based on their confessions and created by multimedia theatre director Carmen Lidia Vidu, Romanian Diary: Timisoara (2018), the article will mirror the atypical activity of the German State Theatre in Timișoara, Romania, over three decades, with a focus on marginalized histories of women artists. One of the two theatrical institutions of its kind in this country, this is a place created for the German minority yet functioning for a mixed audience, since this minority has decreased over the decades, especially after the fall of the Berlin wall and the massive political changes in Eastern Europe. Timișoara German State Theatre has played a pivotal role in the continued existence of a German community in communist Romania, this being proven by its on- and off-stage history, as well as by the multidirectional memories and counter-narratives brought on stage by actresses from different generations in Romanian Diary: Timisoara. The article is based on in-depth research in the Timisoara German State Theatre’s archive, interviews and stage confessions of the actresses involved in these two projects, one of which, Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, was a protagonist in both, exactly thirty years apart. The written format of the article benefits from a tridimensional immersion via a QR code which can be scanned with a mobile phone or other devices to reach a video interview with this actress."

Some of the six protagonists were born in the Banat capital, others somewhere nearby, a third came here to study at university and to start and continue their work in a German-language theatre. Each of the six "performers", whether sitting in front of the microphone stand or holding it in their hands, gives us details about their family, their childhood and school years, what they think about the people around them, their work, what happens in the theatre, the city, life. They point out flaws, failings, prejudices, and they separate the bad from the good, admitting that they are not perfect either, that they do not consider themselves infallible, that they have or have had moments when things did not happen or still do not happen as they should or as they would have liked them to. All six are proud to live in the city of the Revolution, saying that they are surprised that, almost 30 years on, many events have remained and, it seems, will continue to remain entangled. They are also proud that in 2021 Timisoara will have the honour of being the European Capital of Culture, but they express their concern that for the time being almost nothing is connected, everything is lost in disputes and personal pride.

Mircea Morariu, critic

I would switch to Romanian Diary, the moment of intense artistic and emotional joy of the Festival, Carmen Lidia Vidu being, with the series of these Diaries, an open work, to be watched... a magician of the video technique, of the book-open actor, here six actresses, in whose memories she knew how to dig, in documents, in the history of Romania for about 30 years.

Mirella Patureanu, critic 

What really matters are not the biographical accidents, the sufferings and joys exposed to the public, but the marking of a human presence, the actor's investiture as a messenger beyond the roles of the stage. The whole performance suggests that the artist is the (human, civic and political) conscience of the community, called to express it. The diary also initiates a reversible process of making artists and the institution aware of their role in the community, in redefining repertory stakes oriented towards the audience.

Oana Cristea Grigorescu, critic 

What the performance produces is an awareness of the direct relationship between man and city, between the personal past and the future of the metropolis. And it also produces a distancing, a sterilization of pathos (not emotion) that allows the eye and mind to be lucid. The six actresses from the German State Theatre in Timișoara (Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Tatiana Sessler-Toami, Daniela Török, Ioana Iacob, Olga Török, Silvia Török) subsequently/partially question the presence of the institution in the cultural life of the city, and the impasses in their careers, and the role of theatre today.

Oana Stoica, critic 

- Journal of Romania. Timișoara is the third episode (after Sfântu Gheorghe and Constanța) of a programme by director Carmen Lidia Vidu that aims to map urban communities through the prism of general history (of places) and personal history (of actors), in multidisciplinary formats (film, photography, theatre). The actors' biographies, (self)presented discursively, are "mounted" live with photographs and video recordings of the family, from the personal archive, or of the city, with images from the press of the time. The result is a lucid but moving reflection on the city, without festivity, positivism or negativity. In anticipation of 2021, when Timisoara will be the European Capital of Culture, a project that, locally, is limping administratively, conceptually and financially, 6 actresses (inspired by the idea of an all-female cast) from the German State Theatre explore the relationship of this eclectic, ethnic and cultural city with its people, passing through the filters of recent history, social transformation, architectural decay/revival, under the impact of the market economy. With lucidity, perhaps also with disappointment, but without pathos or hatred. 

Oana Stoica, critic 

Journal of Romania. Timișoara (German State Theatre Timișoara, 2018) by Carmen Lidia Vidu is also part of a series dedicated to the experiences of the actors involved. In the case of Timișoara, it is about the actresses, of different ages, of the German Theatre and, ultimately, about the unavoidable shadow cast on their lives by having lived and living in the city where the Revolution started. The beginning of this revolution is, like destiny, part of their identity.

The greatest paradox of the reflection of the Revolution in Romanian theatre? It is a revolution without heroes, without victims, a fate that has fallen on everyone, orchestrated by an invisible, perhaps saving hand. It is often, if not always, someone else's accident, which we look at as mere bystanders.

Iulia Popovici, critic