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Searching for the truth

No One Knows How, Nottara Theatre

Posted in Arts and culture on Friday, May 13, 2005

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The Nottara Theatre recently premiered No One Knows How, a Luigi Pirandello play, directed by Bocsardi Laszlo. The show starts slowly, the first minutes are almost scattered, but it manages to gradually increase the quality and the tension it emanates to the point where the whole show is 100% recommendable.

Suddenly, Count Romeo Daddi wants to know and he also wants everyone else to know, as well. This makes him seem crazy, a recipe that’s similar to some of Camil Petrescu’s plays, and it also drives everyone else mad. Everyone’s on the edge, awkward about defending themselves, and completely puzzled as to when and how to conceal or reveal their actions. A chain of infidelities, some real and some imagined, are unveiled, while relationships get blurred and everyone runs for cover. The salvation, however, comes from a consensus, and everyone around Count Daddi ends up deciding on something. I won’t tell you what exactly, especially since the play surprises not only through the text’s solution, but through the director’s, also.

The Count is Marius Stanescu, the one we applauded a few years back when he played the soldier in the little jewel by Nae Caranfil, „E pericoloso sporgersi”. He has a very special authenticity and lots of tension, as a good actor should have; the role, in this respect, is perfect. We’re on standby waiting for him to keep delivering roles that tap on his obvious potential, which he hasn’t maximized as of yet. Constantin Cotimanis and Ada Navrot are good, as well, with roles that are fair, but not unforgettable. I found Catrinel Dumitrescu remarkable. She’s now reached artistic maturity, and with a cold Valeria Seciu air, she’s capable to play a plethora of roles while she controls her theatrical territory. She is simply excellent playing Bice, the Count’s wife.

For me, however, Claudiu Bleont was the surprise of the evening. For many years now I’ve had the feeling that his robust talent that impressed 1980’s Bucharest, was lost between bad roles and worse TV appearances. But I found the Bleont I knew in this play. I congratulate the director for being able to spot his talent and put it to good use. His recipe is to make Bleont turn to authenticity and interior tension, and bring up dramatic and comical scenes, both required for the Giorgio Vanzi role. In my personal play collection, No one knows how is the play in which I regained access to Claudiu Bleont I used to know, before his getting lost for more than a decade.

Judging not only from the multiple UNITER Awards nominations, Bocsardi Laszlo is a first class director. One of his friends in the industry gave him a nickname which means the following: he is someone who discovers something in a text, then takes the discovery further and turns it into an invention, thus giving quality and personality to his productions. He reminds us about the tight correlation between discovery and invention and how it sometimes feels as if we’re just using different words to signify the same thing. I won’t divulge Bocsardi’s discovery here, but I will only say that it’s surprising and well thought out, that it opens up a different type of thinking, and that the audience likes it very much.
„No one knows how” is a show that articulately talks about the risks of searching for the truth, about inertia and convenience. Highly recommended.


Nottara Theatre
Address: Magheru Blvd #20
Bucharest
Tel: 212.52.89 / 212.52.90
fax: 312.44.80
E-mail: nottara@b.astral.ro
Box Office – Telefon: 212.85.44

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