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“The Glass Garden” performance is based on the novel of the same name written by Tatiana Țîbuleac, awarded the European Union Prize for Literature.
The performance is built around Lastochka, a seven-year-old orphan who was adopted from a rural orphanage by a Russian woman, Tamara Pavlovna. The girl is brought to Chișinău and educated in the atmosphere of the courtyard of a block of flats from the Soviet era. The perpetual existence of the unloved child, the search for identity and her becoming – here is one of the central dimensions of the performance.

"It is not just an artistic act, but a dialogue between past and present, a reminder of what has shaped us and how we continue to define our identity." (Mariana Marin)

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Adaptation: Mariana Onceanu
Set Design: Adrian Suruceanu
Costume Designer: Stela Verebceanu
Stage Movement: Oleg Mardari
Original Music, Sound Design: Valentin Strișcov
Video Projections: Radu Zaporojan
Production: Teatrul Național „Mihai Eminescu”, Chișinău

Cast:
Lastocika - Diana Decuseară
Lastocika copil, Tamara - Corina Rotaru
Tamara Pavlovna - Angela Ciobanu
Zahar Antonovici - Anatol Durbală
Șurocika - Mihaela Strâmbeanu
Bella Isaakovna - Anișoara Bunescu
Katiușa, Asistenta - Olesea Sveclă
Raia, Varea - Tatiana Lazăr
Tonea - Doriana Zubcu Marginean
Polcovnicul - Ion Mocanu
Profesorul de educație fizică - Iurie Focșa
Lioncik - Alexandru Pleșca
Maricica, Greta - Rusanda Radvan
Pavlik - Petru Marginean
Oxanka - Draga-Dumitrița Drumi
Dmitri - Vlad Ropot
Radu - Igor Babiac

The novel Garden of Glass awarded the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature

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Performance in Romanian, with translation into English
Duration: 2h 40min
Date of premiere: 12.09.2024
Original title: Grădina de sticlă
Special effects: Stage smoke
Republic of Moldova