A welcome to the English speakers: NILS' FUCKED UP DAY at MONDAY Theatre @ Green Hours

Wednesday, 16th of May, 8 PM.

Again… Theatre in English at Green Hours!

The MONDAY Theatre @ Green Hours (Teatrul LUNI de la Green Hours)

will recommence presenting theatre for English speaking audiences.

After presenting a series of shows in English with You Don’t Feel It Here and Bones For Otto (by Lia Bugnar) & The Sunshine Play and Bucharest Calling, between 2004 and 2008, the MONDAY Theatre welcomes English speaking audiences again in Calea Victoriei 120 for the second preview of Nils’ Fucked Up Day by Peca Stefan, performed in a mixture of Romanian and English (with English surtitles for the parts that mix English and Romanian).

Ziua futută a lui Nils, a play written initially in Romanian by Peca Ştefan in 2002, has quite a reputation in the Romanian theatre. It has been labeled, by some critics, as being „outrageous”, „obscene”, „vulgar”. At the same time the play has been widely acknowledged by theatre professionals, who saw it as a possible rebirth of new Romanian playwriting.

The text deals with language, Romanian (but not only…) hypocrisy, and existentialism in a hyper ironic way, that’s both challenging and guilty pleasure fun. At the same time the play is an unconventional plea for happiness. For six years it was almost a taboo to stage this play in Romania, although it won one of the most important playwriting awards (dramAcum, 2002) and was presented in highly acknowledged festivals such as The New Writing Bienalle in Wiesbaden, Germany (2006).

In 2008 the MONDAY Theatre dared to produce it, under the stage direction of the author himself. Ever since, the show has been a sold out hit.

This year Peca, an internationally acclaimed playwright, has translated and rewritten the play so we can share the performance with international audiences (both in Bucharest and abroad). Nils’ Fucked Up Day (the new English title) is now a mix of Romanian and English, powered by one of the best VJ’s in Romania (Cinty Ionescu). We believe the performance is even more “dangerously fun”.

The cast is made up of some of the best young actors in Bucharest, in the tradition of the MONDAY Theatre.

The show combines multimedia, interactivity and very inciting way to look at the world and its stereotypes.

Wednesday, 16th of May, 8 PM.

MONDAY Theatre @ Green Hours presents
THE SECOND PREVIEW OF THE NEW, ENGLISH VERSION OF

NILS’ FUCKED UP DAY

by Peca Ştefan

a show officially selected in
The International New York Fringe Festival
(FringeNYC '11)
with:

RADU IACOBAN
CĂTĂLIN BABLIUC
MĂDĂLINA GHIŢESCU
ILINCA MANOLACHE
TUDOR AARON ISTODOR

and CINTY – VJ (live)

Stage Design by Wonderboy
Video Design by Cinty Ionescu

Directed by Peca Ştefan

a www.peca.ro &

Teatrul LUNI (MONDAY Theatre) coproduction – 2008/2011

ENGLISH SPEAKING AUDIENCES WELCOME.

WARNING: CURSE WORDS USED FOR DRAMATIC AND SELF-IRONIC PURPOSES.

Described as the "most obscene play in the Romanian theatre", Nils' Fucked Up Day is a sarcastic, existentialist take on the fucked up choices we have in this fucked up world. Outrageously presented in English and Ro-English by Romanian actors who won't emigrate to the US. Maybe…

“NILS: Hello. Welcome to our show. This is “Nils’ fucked up day”, a story about me, Nils.

I am also the actor who plays Nils, if we look at it in a Brechtian way. Me and my colleagues here, on the chairs, are also actors - we come from a poor ex-communist country in Europe, which is developing… so so.

We have managed to do this show in English, partially - after two years and a half of playing it in Romanian – because we simply wanted to leave our country.

Not to emigrate, per se, so don’t worry – we’re not going to take the bartending jobs from you – but to share this story with the entire world. We thought English would be a good tool to do that, since it’s the language of globalization. However, we are using surtitles, so I really hope you can read.

OK, in conclusion, for you this show it’s brand new and for us is… just difficult. Thank you in advance. Enjoy. And please turn off all electronic devices, including vibrators. That was a joke. I meant turn off your iPhones. That was a pun on globalization too.”

booking: teatru@greenhours.ro / 0788.452.485