studia universitatis babeş – bolyai dramatica teatru, film, media 2

CRISTIAN RUSU
MB: I think it’s possible! You just need a good theatre where they
could put trees into big bulks, so they don’t die and than you make a false
floor and you put them there…I think it’s possible!
CR: That’s very nice!
MB: Because that is for me the reaction against the space and the
light and the abstraction. The transparency, you see, is in all the ways.
Transparency for example, you see today: computers with transparent
cover. You see telephones transparent, you see the people - how do they
build their houses, how they let the light in; everybody needs space and air,
because human being is suffocated.
CR: It’s like seeing the inner structure of the object. A visible structure.
MB: Yes! Also, when you go to visit people, they will put you in a
chair where you sit so bloody uncomfortable, but it is a design chair. So,
those things…there was a time for them in the end of the ’70, when
everything was in wood: wooden floors, nice wooden kitchens and so on.
The transparency is also in human beings …people are dying for a type of
honesty with each other, in the world, in everything, but they can not deal
with this “dirty job”. So, they have a big desire of communication, they have
a big desire for company, people have lost all their tribes, you know the
animal tribes. The biggest tribe now is the fitness studio, where there are
another [set of] seven monkeys hanging out.
CR: Yes, but team theatre could be considered as a tribe, during the
making of its production.
MB: Yes! And when you’ve succeeded in promoting once a team, you
have thrown it. That’s a fact. Because you will know how they will behave from
times from the back. But that’s to do again with the transparency.
CR: Tell me something about Romania.
MB: Every society has its tempo. Many people think to compare
Albania to Romania. Someone was there and he said that in the capital of
Albania they have one crossroad with the stoplight, something like that, and
the tourists come to visit the stoplight. But there are a lot of car-washes
now. There was one guy that had an idea to make a car washing, because
everything is so dusty and he suddenly thought making money, and now
you have a car wash on every street. Everyone wants to have a clean car.
CR: That is a sign of wealth. And that’s also a living standard.
MB: Yes! There’s a time when countries move, but there are some
countries that don’t move. If I look at Belgium, it’s a country incredibly
culturally involved in moving and doing things, but from the inside nothing
moves. It stands still where it stands, you can’t move anything there. But
you can move a lot in Romania, I think.
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