by Yann Verburgh
Staging: Yann Verburgh 

While all kinds of nationalist movements make our old continent shiver, two artists, one from Romania and the other from France, bring together actors from the two countries to raise a question about the European values and the status of theatre, in the context of the social and political changes nowadays. From East to West, from Bucharest to Paris, the theatre of Eugen Jebeleanu and Yann Verburgh takes out from the actuality, and from the performers’ lives, the essence of their fiction, dealing with corruption, migration, melting of the ice cap in Greenland.
The performance begins with a fable describing an emperor penguin family leaving the Land of Ice for a place where they hope to find a better life and a brighter future for their cubs. From here, by an inlaid writing, arise a lot of multilingual scenes, in which languages confront, understand each other and reply to one another, in a journey between reality and fiction, fairy tale and document, character and personal life, alterity and identity. The testimonial monologues of the actors become indignation and a manifesto of the citizen-artist, caught between power relations and performing codes, looking for his place on stage and in society.

Set Design: Velica Panduru
Set Design Assistants: Ana Ienașcu, Nina Tanné
Light Design: Marine LeVey, Alexandru Macrinici
Sound creation: Remi Billardon