Mad Forest
On Saturday night I went and saw Mad Forest, the 1st year Theatre Performance students' main project for this semester. It was so good that I went and saw it again on Sunday afternoon, when Romania's Honorary Consulate to Victoria, Nicolae Cojocaru, and a couple of other medium-wigs also attended.
The first act of the play was about two Romanian families in Timisoara just before the revolution in December 1989. In the second act, people of Bucharest are interviewed (this part of the script is constructed from interviews with people who were in Bucharest at the time) while their fellow citizens run across the stage in panic; revolt against the dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu; and are shot dead by soldiers and terrorists. The third act is set just after the revolution, shows the two Timisoara families trying to come to terms with life after the revolution, trying to work out what actually happened and includes the trial and execution of the Ceausescus, re-enacted by some of the characters.
If anyone ever puts Mad Forest on near you go see it. Or do it yourself.