Menoventi theatre company in Romania for the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025, the Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest in co-operation with Tranzit House in Cluj-Napoca and the State Jewish Theatre in Bucharest presents Volevo risarcirvi (I wanted to compensate you) by Menoventi theatre company.
“From a suitcase remained closed for almost thirty years, important and lacerating words emerge”. Menoventi’s project gives back some fragments of the interviews that young psychologist Fiorella Rodella carried out between 1995 and 1996 for her degree thesis. All interviewees survived the Nazi extermination camps and were interned as political prisoners.
In the suitcase, the recordings of those long interviews, fragments of a past told by the voices of ghosts who survived the holocaust, denial, oblivion, mistrust and indifference.
This theatrical "transformation" attempts a dialogue with the spirits of these unfortunate people and observes the evolution of totalitarianism, a spectre that is still hovering over our heads.
The performance is on stage at Casa Tranzit in Cluj-Napoca on January 26 (6 pm) and at the State Jewish Theatre in Bucharest on January 28 (7 pm).