The Theater Group of the UAB on Stage

The Theater Group of the UAB, directed by Ricard Gázquez, stages five short pieces, written between 2016 and 2018, by the dramatist and performer Miruna Dinu. We can see them at the UAB Theater Hall on 18 April at 1:00 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m. and on 19 April at 5:30 p.m.

11/04/2018

El cazador and El lobo are a review of the stories of Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood in which Dinu proposes a disturbing turn in the roles of the characters. Lluvias is a dystopia about a near future in which an ecological catastrophe determines the political and social functioning of a society. Maria (in a field of sunflowers) talks about a Romanian girl who came to Barcelona a few years ago. She works as a babysitter for a girl in the city and has a complicated family situation. The main issues are isolation, abuse of power, differentiation by origin, triviality and classism, issues that also appear in Helena, a girl from the East. However, in this piece these elements are expressed in a different style: on her trip from Bucharest to Barcelona, she is harassed by men and women who are attracted by her condition as a "lonely stranger". To appease the pain of losing her mother and escape everyday life, she lets herself be involved in these nocturnal matters.

The works, directed by Ricard Gázquez, are based on the author's personal experience since she moved to Barcelona eight years ago. They show us their emotions, fantasies and personal experiences in a poetic key and with an incisive sense of humor from female voices. They talk about their daily life, the absurdity, the ways of facing love, loss, uprooting, the reality of a different country and the search for happiness.

Dinu writes in a language that is not her own: that is the reason why the original language with which she wrote them has been respected. This fact produces an estrangement with the compositional syntax; we see a kind of depuration in the use of the words that explode a landscape painted with other materials. This has its reflection in the author's universe: it includes a minimalist and absurd translation, a synthetic and concise way of describing things, situations, places and people.

Miruna Dinu (Bucharest, 1984) was trained as a theater director at the National University of Theater and Cinema Ion Luca Caragiale. She has translated and staged several works, including Blood, by Lars Noren, Some Explicit Polaroids by Marc Ravenhill. In 2005 she was a co-founder member of TangaProject, which brings together young Romanian directors and playwrights with the aim of promoting new dramaturgies, investigating new theatricalities and promoting active art and social involvement. As a performer she has worked in the alternative scene of Bucharest, Czech Republic and Barcelona. She has completed her training as a theater author in several workshops at Sala Beckett in Barcelona.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Location: Theater Hall, Plaça Cívica, Bellaterra Campus.
Capacity: 137 people.
Free admission limited to the capacity of the room.
The ticket window opens half an hour before the start of each show.
No locations are reserved and only one ticket is delivered per person.

Cultura en Viu
Agora Building (Plaça Cívica)
Telephone number: 93 581 10 21
cultura.enviu@uab.cat
www.uab.cat/cultura