(IN)CORRECT

Part of The Collage Trilogy

Opening: February 14, 2020

Reactor – a place for creative experiments, Cluj-Napoca

Director’s Intent

For me, the poetry of theatre stands in showing the mechanisms behind the creation and not by hiding them. The performer can supply also the functions of other people in the creative and technical team. The performer can be also a stage, lights or sound technician. But if the performer assumes these roles, how will the character play with a light that he has to manage? Although it might sound simple, when working on stage with all these elements, things tend to get really complicated. And it is a delight for me to watch this juxtaposition of plans.

Synopsis

When a family’s members have completely different lives, the border between what is correct and what is incorrect becomes very thin. It resembles the place where the Danube river flows into the Black Sea. It’s an uncertain, troubled place, just like the minds of the relatives on a vacation in the Delta, as they stay awake through the night. (IN)CORRECT juggles with the fantasies and desires of two different generations. Remembering common memories seems to be the solution to being together. But what if we don’t remember the same things?

Artistic Team

Directed and written by Leta Popescu
Set Design: Lucia Mărneanu
Stage Movement: Farid Fairuz
Sound Atmosphere: Oana Hodade
Video Collage: Doru Vatavului
Directing assistance and musical training: Dominik M. Iabloncic
With: Alexandra Caras, Cătălin Filip, Oana Mardare, Alina Mișoc, Emőke Pál, Paul Sebastian Popa, Lucian Teodor Rus, Doru Taloș

Photo credits: Doru Vatavului

Reviews

“I found in Leta Popescu’s show a zest for play and sharing that I haven’t seen in a long time. And I don’t think one could have really talked about us and ours, about our frustrations, dreams, curiosities, dramas, fights and discoveries through each other without this appetite. I found humor where I wouldn’t have expected it.”

Lorena Copil – revistacopilot.com – Journal of our everyday family

“(In)Correct is one of director Leta Popescu’s most powerful shows.”

Oana Stoica – scena9.ro – Theatre in Reactor

“(…) is one of the most successful artistic products of the “new theatrical realities” (…) It is very fresh and very profound, it has the quality of this elegant gliding between a clear theme and ways of scenic expression freed from the constraints of the coercive structure. At the same time, the creativity kept within a fluid convention, peppered with supporting hooks for amateur alpine spectators, achieves the effect of a coherent spectacular experience, in which emotion and thought dine in fits and starts at a table of bona fide reconciliation.”

Alina Epîngeac – epingeac.com – A show not at all (In)correct

“Letei Popescu’s courageous writing imposes this complicated slalom between reality and fiction, between the plane of memory and the plane of performance, and the director in it creates for the same purpose symbolic scenes in which the faces of the actors are put in the overhead projector, like objects in the foreground. “

Cristina Modreanu, Revista Scena.ro – (In)visible and (In)correct: theatre as a guide to self-discovery

“Very cleverly cut branches, splinters and shadows from this family tree, which Leta Popescu’s text and performance manage to plant and then carve and reveal to the audience on the stage of the Cluj Reactor, in a pertinent and moving testimony about the oppressive atmosphere of the Romanian family.”

Luciana Antofi – Blog – After “(In)visible” and “(In)credible”, Leta Popescu scores the familiar “(In) correct” with the Cluj Reactor

“Leta Popescu provides a very clever balance between both real and refuge, and between generations. By turns, there’s applause and booing for children, and parents, and those we’ve grown accustomed to saying they’ve stepped on the wrong foot and those who point the finger at them.”

Mihai Brezeanu – LiterNet – Operation Monster, family stage – (In)correct to Interferences, 2020

“Answers to question 2. What was the best show in 2020?
Raluca Rădulescu: If I had to name one show from what I saw live from the 2020 productions, it would be (In)correct by Leta Popescu from Reactor in Cluj. A mature show with humour and self-irony. Lucid, pertinent, contemporary.

Oana Stoica: I would choose three shows from this infernal year. (In)corect (directed by Leta Popescu, Reactor de Creație e Experiment Cluj) – an in-depth scan of family dysfunctions through the prism of intergenerational conflict, the important thing here being that these conflicts do not imply diametrically opposed positions, “sins” are not absolute, and the belligerents detest each other, but do not hate each other. It’s an analysis of the mud that swirls around any family.

Miruna Runcan: The short window of normal work in the summer-autumn gave me the greatest joy: Letei Popescu’s (In)correct with the excellent team of Reactor, a show that proposes a disturbing critical-satirical-nostalgic-interrogative plunge into our family relationships and into ourselves”.

THE THEATRICAL YEAR 2020 – a survey by Matei Martin – Dilema Veche

“Bearing the consistency of an intimate diary, “(In) Correct” reveals testimonies that, in another context, we would not have the courage to make.”