About the show

How did the financial crisis of 2009-2012 affect the childhood and adolescence of generations who saw their parents and grandparents overwhelmed by insecurity, unemployment, depression? What intimate and political mark did the crisis leave on their lives? How can we imagine solutions for future crises?

“Crisis. Survival Kit” centers on the perspective of children and teenagers who were between 10 and 17 years old during the crisis. Children who lived almost without their parents. Parents scattered all over the world, working hard to ensure a better future for them. Children who saw their parents burdened with loans, living in debt, in a Romania deepened in instability and inequity.

The script was developed within workshops for documenting and exploring personal histories with the artistic team. The show represents an exercise in fictionalizing the family stories and experiences of actors and actresses born in the 1990s. Five different but interconnected stories about five families in crisis.

Creative team

Concept and script: Mihaela Michailov and David Schwartz

Scenography: Andrei Dinu
Stage movement: Carmen Coțofană
Music and lyrics: Paul-Ovidiu Cosovanu
Dramaturgy contribution: Anamaria Feraru
Direction: David Schwartz

Cast

Anamaria Codiță, Anamaria Feraru, David Drugaru, Silvana Mihai, Vlad Ionuț Popescu