on the back of the photograph, lower left corner, lies everything I can’t forget about my mother
itinerant performance, 2024

Written by Alexandru Ivănoiu

Director: Alin Uberti

Scenography and video design: Cosmin Stancu

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Cast: Maria Moroșan, Bogdan Iancu, Vlad Pânzaru

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Production made through IOTA Association.​

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Immediately after the revolution in 1989, a lot of Romanians have decided they aren’t going to stick around to see what happens with their country. They needed distance. They uprooted themselves and settled in different countries that promised more than the absences of the final decade of the communist regime: absence of food, absence of heat, absence of freedom. Although the living conditions exist now, 35 years later, the absence is one of bodies who still haven’t returned. They send money back home, they vote and they call, but their bodies are nowhere to be found in present day Romania. This performance is a participatory experience that tells the story of these bodies, their journey, their joy, their pain and their absence. A story that can’t be told without bodies joining us on stage. A story of an untranslatable word that Romanian bodies can’t forget. A story about everything we can’t forget.