After Gellu Naum

The Island


Lucian Blaga

Robinson: CĂTĂLIN HERLO
Friday / A beduin: MIRON MAXIM
Mermaid: ANCA HANU
Pirate: ADRIAN CUCU
Mary: RAMONA DUMITREAN
Iedu' Coco: CRISTIAN GROSU
Selkirke Grandmas: IRINA WINTZE, ADRIANA BĂILESCU, ROMINA MEREI
Randolph Selkirke: SILVIUS IORGA
Mabolo, the king of the cannibals / drums: CRISTIAN RIGMAN
Guitar: ADA MILEA Set designer: VALENTIN CODOIU
Director’s asistant: ANDREEA IACOB

Date of the opening: december 09, 2012

National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca

In Romanian, with English subtitles
1 hour without intermission
Photo: Nicu Cherciu

Concert performance by Ada Milea

Ada Milea’s musical The Island brings Robinson’s story on stage. This is Gellu Naum’s Robinson, alone on a desert island, but an island full of people. This serious playing, with the play of the same title, written by the Romanian surrealist poet and playwright Gellu Naum, is a puzzle of meetings and situations involving exotic characters, such as a mermaid, a pirate, a bedouin, but also many members of Robinson’s lost family. The quests, the chases, the meetings and, again, the separations, all fast and almost mechanical, have in common the loneliness, a loneliness which is also lost and then regained. Hence, Ada Milea creates a 100% theatrical concert of lonelinesses brought together by Gellu Naum, with the voices and the presence of the actors from the National Theatre in Cluj in a concert.