1h 15 without intermission
She
Ofelia Popii
He, the owner
Ciprian Scurtea
directed by
Chris Simion-Mercurian
set and costume design
Bianca și Sabina Veșteman
choreography
Ioana Macarie
video and sound
Cristi Enache
light design
Alin Popa
director's assistant
Georgiana Roșu
Someone is going to come is a poetry-play, translated into a performance-poem, which marks a new creative stage for Chris Simion-Mercurian, who builds a world that perfectly captures the tense atmosphere, the ambiguity, the desolate loneliness in which the two characters who seem to consume their burning love endlessly, without any possible escape, an all- onsuming passion that is too strong to resist, untouched by the environment, by the intrusion of the other. The way to exist in this world, to achieve harmony in the midst of the dissolution of the whole, is to find a way of reconciling opposites, fragments, apparently distinct parts of a whole that we must understand in its many forms.
Silvia Dumitrache: Universul dintre mine și tine [The Universe Between You and Me], Observator Cultural
The performance can also be a psychological drama, because human nature, as much as we would like to existentialize it, is not exempt from fits of jealousy, obsessions, or the powerlessness of fidelity. From this standpoint, we can also think of femininity still being reported to a patriarchal authority, with Him trying repetitively and obsessively to distract Her from the snare of the siren's song.
Ionela Gavril: „Cineva are să vină” – între psihologic şi existenţial [Someone is Going to Come – Between Psychological and Existential], lapunkt.ro
The play tells the story of a couple finding themselves unable to reconnect. He and She – an ordinary couple, sharing dreams, ideals, and insecurities – walk into an isolated house on the seashore, with the purpose of rediscovering themselves. What awaits them is a terrifying loneliness and the daunting feeling that She is haunted by something. Perhaps even the certainty that Someone is going to come. The play looks for its essence through mystery and suspense. A theatre of silence, a story about (no) communication.