The National Theater “Mihai Eminescu” will put on a play about forbidden, passionate and impossible love. The general rehearsal for the play “In your charming eyes” was held on December 15 and the premiere was scheduled for December 21 and 22, IPN reports.
To produce the play, director Alexandru Vasilache chose parts from novels of Gib Mihaiescu, who, during the totalitarian Communist regime was excluded from the ranks of elite Romanian authors because he was considered a pornographic author for describing in detail the relationship between man and woman and for going deep into couple psychology. The play transmits the thirst for pure and ideal, for unknown and infinite and the obsessive eroticism from Gib Mihaiescu’s novels.
The director said that when he started to work on this material, he found out that Gib Mihaiescu formed part of the artistic council of the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu” in Chisinau in the 1920s. Tango was very popular at that time and “In your charming eyes” is the title of a tango of the 1920s by Cristian Vasile.
The play includes over 20 tangoes performed live with the participation of some actors. The main parts are “Manarul”, played by Petru Hadarca, and “Eva”, played by Silvia Luca. Other roles are played by Sandu Leanca, Victor Nofit and Angela Ciobanu.
Actor and the Theater’s director Petru Hadarca said the action takes place on the bank of the Nistru River, in Vadul lui Voda town. It is a team play. “The personage that I try to revive is a boyar who takes revenge because his young wife cheated on him. He is a paramour, but this relationship is very dramatic and tragic,” he stated, noting that the end is tragic.
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The play will also be presented in Romania. The tour will continue the fourth consecutive year in concert with the Romanian theater on the Bucharest-Iasi-Chisinau route. It includes this play. As of January 20, “In your charming eyes” will be put on at the National Theater “Ion Luca Caragiale” in Bucharest, together with another two plays – “Do you have something to declare?” and “Big house”.
