Sidy Thal, the German State Theatre's co-production with the Jewish State Theatre is playing this week in Bucharest. There will be two performances, the first on 13 March starting at 19.00 and the second on 14 March at the same time. Bucharest audiences can buy tickets here: https://www.mystage.ro/#/teatru-1

The play, written in tandem by Thomas Perle and Clemens Bechtel, the former benefiting from a creative residency in the year of the Cultural Capital in Timișoara, and directed by Clemens Bechtel, tells the story of the anti-Semitic attack that took place on 26 November 1938, when two hand grenades exploded in the auditorium during a performance by the Jewish-Bucovin singer Sidy Thal and her ensemble at the Timișoara Theatre. The attack was carried out by the Iron Guard, a far-right nationalist group, in which four people were killed and seventy injured.

History is intertwined with the personal destinies of those involved in this event. What is true? What really happened? Sidy Thal is an attempt to reconstruct, with the help of specialists from the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania, the attack and the moment when anti-Semitism and fascism became part of everyday life in a multicultural society, leading to the horror of the Second World War and the Shoah.

Cast from 13 March 2024: Viorica Predica, Katia Pascariu, Daniela Török, Olga Török, Oana Vidoni, Radu Brănici, Mircea Dragoman, Mihai Prejban.

Cast from 14 March 2024: Enikő Blénessy, Silvia Török, Daniela Török, Olga Török, Oana Vidoni, Radu Brănici, Rareș Hontzu, Richard Hladik.


See you in Bucharest this week!