Romanian independent theatre group Drama Stock has launched an Indiegogo campaign to support their site-specific theatre project titled „11.1 / Echo Point”. The project is double-pronged attempt to raise awareness on the value of otherwise neglected urban spaces with tremendous artistic potential, on the one hand, and to showcase American playwright Rajiv Joseph’s anthology of plays titled “Echo Point”.
11 short plays and a prologue form a puzzle that will take the audience on a journey where they will cross different worlds, equally imperfect, yet familiar. As they cross from one space to another, the spectators are almost tricked into barging in on the intimacy of strangers caught in a moment of their rather mundane life, or so it would seem at first glance. 11 short moments highlighted from the simple existence of others, which expose their whole being, effectively tracing the history of their life in the mind of the viewer. 11 brief sequences, where the audience gets to play the part of a voyeur faced with scenes from their own potential lives. These multiple perspectives of everyday existence confront the viewer with the graceful yet tragic beauty of loneliness that marks a life beyond all other things. As the stories unfold, not without humor and irony, what seemed to be unrelated fragments of strangers’ lives gradually assemble themselves into a whole, a coherent journey of an individual that could be any one of us.
The Drama Stock team consists of 30 performing arts professionals from all over Romania, some of them coming from the independent theatre scene, others from a professional, state-funded institution background, working together in Bucharest. The director of the project is Sebastian Marina, who has chosen to stage Rajiv Joseph’s short plays in this context, and has arranged them in a loosely connected and highly relevant narrative mesh.
The project intends to showcase not only the theatrical performance, but also to create a Making Of DVD of the work, which can potentially be a great learning tool for emerging artists interested in experimenting in site-specific theatre.
You can meet part of the team in the very personal promotional video they have created for the Indiegogo campaign.
