The German State Theatre invites you to the newest premiere in its repertoire - Cloud Tectonics by José Rivera, directed by László Bocsárdi. The event will take place on Thursday 6 June 2024, starting at 7.30pm. The performance will then be repeated on 18 and 28 June 2024, at the same time. This is László Bocsárdi's third collaboration with GSTT, having already directed Albert Camus's The Misunderstanding (2012) and Electra after Euripides and Aeschylus (2015).

The sets are by József Bartha, the costumes by Zsuzsanna Szőke and the music by Magor Bocsárdi. The light design is by Sándor Baumgartner, the make-up is by Bojiței Ilici and the dramaturgy is by Lucian Vărșăndan. The cast includes Silvia Török, Marc Illich, Harald Weisz and Dana Borteanu. Moreover, the performance produced by GSTT marks a world premiere - it is the world's first German-language production of José Rivera's play.

On a rainy night in Los Angeles, a man named Anibal de la Luna picks up a poor, neglected hitchhiker called Celestina del Sol and takes her home. She is in her twenties, has been pregnant for two years and is looking for the father of her child. Celestina seems to be a rare and heavenly creature, a mystical wanderer with no sense of time and an infinite capacity for love. Alone in his small house, isolated from the lamentations of the decaying city, De la Luna and Del Sol come together, joining their bodies and their dreams. Cloud Tectonics is an enchanting and haunting magical-realist love story, characterized by elements of theatrical enchantment, in which the ordinary is suddenly transformed into something fantastic.


László Bocsárdi was born in 1958 in Târgu Mureș. While studying industrial chemistry at the “Traian Vuia” Polytechnic Institute (now “Politehnica” University) in Timișoara, he became a member of the student theatre "Thália" in 1978. In 1984 he founded the only experimental Hungarian speaking theatre in Romania, "Figura", in Gheorgheni. Since 1990 he has dedicated himself solely to theatre, and in 1995 he graduated in directing from the Academy of Theatre Arts (now the University of Arts) in Târgu-Mureș, class of Gábor Tompa. In the same year he became main stage director and artistic manager of the “Tamási Áron” Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe, which he led as general manager from 2005 to 2023. It is also in Sfântu Gheorghe where he coordinates the International Theatre Biennial “Reflex”.


Between 2004 and 2014 he received no less than seven nominations for the Best Director Award at the Gala of the Romanian Theatre Union (UNITER), winning two such awards, for directing Caligula (at the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre in Craiova, 2011) and Hamlet (at the “Tamási Áron” Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe, 2013). Under his stage direction, the production of Tadeusz Słobodzianek's Our Class (“Lucian Blaga” National Theatre Cluj-Napoca, 2016) won the UNITER Award for the Best Performance, and the production of Ivan Vyrypaev’s Iranian Conference, which he directed at the “Tamási Áron” Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe, was nominated for the same award in 2024. He has received numerous awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the UNITER Senate in 2023.

About Cloud Tectonics, László Bocsárdi said: "This text touched me from the very beginning, giving me the same feeling I had when I encountered Gabriel García Márquez's magical realism, so I was interested to see what formula the author found here to illustrate scenically an experiment in which time stands still, in contradiction with our nowadays world, in which we have almost no time for essential things, and in which inter-human relationships are so superficial. In this play we discover that the essence of life is summed up in a few very powerful moments in our lives, and the most important of these moments are probably those in which we experience the feeling of love."


Playwright and screenwriter José River was born in San Juan (Puerto Rico) in 1955, then moved to Long Island in New York City with his family at the age of 5. He grew up without many books, but with a wealth of stories. The influence of magical realism can often be felt in Rivera's works, especially as he met the most important representative of this movement, Gabriel García Márquez, at the Sundance Institute in the 1980s. This was to have a lasting influence on him.


He is best known for his work on the screenplay for the internationally successful film The Motorcycle Diaries, for which he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at both the 2005 Oscars and the 2004 BAFTA-Award. Many of his more than 30 plays have been staged throughout the US and abroad, and he has received numerous awards for his prolific work. Even though his plays and scripts cover a wide range of topics, many of his motifs are autobiographical or influenced by his Puerto Rican identity

More details here: https://www.teatrulgerman.ro/ro/reprezentatii/tectonica-norilor/

Tickets for all three performances here: https://www.entertix.ro/evenimente?s=tectonica+norilor


See you at the premiere on Thursday!