Ionesco showing The Lesson

The theater “Eugene Ionesco” (TEI) is showing “The Lesson”, directed by Vitalie Drucec, on October 3 and 4, Info-Prim Neo reports. Ionesco's play “The Lesson” has been staged in several variants. This version, by director, and simultaneously the actor, Vitalie Drucec, is intended to have a comic facade, up to a certain point. The absurd will transform, unimpededly, into farce. “A tragic farce”, this is the Ionescian lesson in Drucec's vision. “A tragic farce, revealing the absurdity of unique and exclusive ideas, the language as a tool of power and the lethal relationship between sexuality and dictatorship”. The Lesson has three main characters: the Professor (played by Gheorghe Pietraru), the Pupil (Maia Grosu) and the Maid (Marina Madan). “The thread of words is in parallel relationship with feelings. A phantasmagoria. At first it looks like an amusement: you laugh until you realize the Professor is a maniac. Until the absurd becomes a drama. Vitalie Drucec has the gift to make the audience laugh. He can make you feel the comedy, but in this case not entirely, but up to the point when everything is pushed to paroxysm”, says Rodica Tomasenco, spokesperson at “Eugene Ionesco”. During eighty minutes, the professor on stage and his pupils will try to convince you that theater can be “violently comical, violently dramatic”, added Tomasenco. The Lesson will be replayed on October 23 and 24.