The Magpies

50 lei (full price), 30 lei (reduced price – pupils, students, pensioners)

Organiser and host:

„Toma Caragiu” Theatre – Drama Section
Toma Caragiu Street no. 13, Ploiești, Romania

Date and time:

Thursday, 20 November 2025
18:30 – 21:00

About

A bittersweet snapshot of a world which, unable to adapt to new realities, takes refuge in clichés and outdated habits, the play „Gaițele” (The Magpies) captures, with sharpness and sarcasm, the agony of a social universe dominated by the rigidity of conventions and the instinct to preserve privileges.
„Gaițele” remains a lucid and painfully topical satire, sketching a portrait of human pettiness hidden behind social masks and the inability to evolve.
The Duduleanu family is the very example of this society adrift, defined by the obsession with wealth and attachment to an outdated social order. Beneath the appearance of trivial concerns lies a world suffocated by envy, resentment and meanness.
At the centre of this universe reigns Aneta Duduleanu, who imposes the rhythm and rules of a microcosm where resentment and intrigue replace vitality. Although confronted with a dramatic event, this does not bring about a major change in the family dynamic but, on the contrary, highlights their constant thirst for control and the superficiality with which they treat any situation, life proceeding almost imperturbably on its course, with nothing truly changing.

GAIȚELE (THE MAGPIES)
by Alexandru Kirițescu

directed by: Cristi Juncu

set design: Carmencita Brojboiu

musical illustration: Cristi Juncu
video&lighting design: Ionuț Aldea
video projection: Ionuț Manea

cast: Clara Flores (Aneta Duduleanu), Ioana Farcas (Zoia), Oxana Moravec (Lena), Andrei Radu (Mircea Aldea), Theodora Sandu (Wanda), Pamela Iobaji (Margareta Aldea), Visarion Udatu (Ianache Duduleanu), Dragos Maxim (Georges Duduleanu), Lacramioara Bradoschi (Collette Duduleanu), Cristina Moldoveanu (Zamfira).

Choreographic moment: Silvia Călin