#safetypins

#safetypins
  • by Ionuț Sociu
  • Directed by: Bobi Pricop
  • Set Design: Oana Micu
  • Music and choreography: Eduard Gabia
  • Video editing: Iustin Șurpănelu
Premiera: 23 January 2022
Duration: 1h, no intermission
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The show is a brand new performance designed to work on two levels: in a theatre, as a performance installation, and online, on the social network TikTok.

"#acedesiguranță" is a theatrical production based on a series of narratives in a multi-branched dramaturgical structure created through video. The story centers on a group of seven high school students, ages 16-18, who launch #acedesiguranță, a movement to give voice on TikTok to teens and their experiences.

Gathered on the TikTok platform, the seven teenagers address themes relevant to the world of young people in Romania today: anxiety, identity, self-discovery, education, relationships, vulnerability or isolation.

The performance-installation involves the audience being divided into smaller groups, each going to a space where an actor will guide the audience on an intense journey into this story that unfolds in the TikTok universe.

Tours

  • Festivalul Internațional de Teatru de la Sibiu, 2022

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Reviews

The team behind this unique project, a first for us, includes, in addition to the director and the TikTok-masked actors, the playwright Ionuț Sociu, the set designer Oana Micu, with music and choreography by Eduard Gabia, and photography and editing by Iustin Surpănelu. The shots either cut away or follow the script to immerse us in the atmosphere, to make us feel it, to inhabit a world that is more or less comfortable, yet incredibly dynamic, shaping generations by fusing all perspectives of the world, of any kind, with consequences we cannot foresee. So different and yet so similar, the seven become their own safety pins - small, useful objects that come to one's rescue at unexpected moments. Director Bobi Pricop adds another safety pin to the others, just as tempting and just as personal. In Craiova, a young woman near me exclaimed: "I'm Jacqueline!" Emma Bovary is alive! The fiction lives on, even if it has shifted a little and become visual. This is an installation performance of the present, a synthesis of the past and the future.

Ana PARASCHIVESCU/SpectActor