from 24.11.25 to 28.11.25

Scheduled 2025 Attività Concluso PLAYGROUND 24/26

PLAYGROUND – Irene Petra Zani

R&D WORKSHOP – IN THE PINK by Irene Petra Zani

From 24 to 28 November, Ariel Theatre in Târgu Mureș welcomes Italian playwright Irene Petra Zani for a week-long residency to further develop her play In the Pink. The workshop is led by Olga Macrinici as director, with Eva Simon as translator, and a talented cast featuring Emilia Banciu, Georgiana Bighescu, Mariana Iordache, Georgeta Lozincă, Mioara Topor, and Cristina Ungureanu. Irene’s writing explores identity, gender, and the ways power dynamics shape our understanding of self and history. In the Pink — an idiom meaning “to be in great shape” — redefines the colour pink as both comic and cruel, offering a lens through which a chorus of women of different ages, classes, and origins reclaim the stories that History has silenced. Throughout the week, the group will delve into the play’s rhythm, language, and complex female voices, giving Irene the opportunity to hear her text performed in Romanian for the very first time. The R&D will culminate in a public reading at Ariel Theatre on 28 November.

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