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"Together with the team of the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj, Jesca Prudencio has created a vibrant performance that forces us to ask ourselves questions that are both personal and universal, regarding our home on earth and the one in heaven."
-Ana Ionesei, Fictiunea
-Ana Ionesei, Fictiunea
"With a declared passion for choreography, Prudencio succeeds in restoring to gesture and movement values we might have otherwise overlooked. Ordinary stories, with nothing extraordinary in them, yet suffused with a particular sensitivity that Prudencio brings forth, resolving entire scenes with theatrical means as simple as they are effective."
-Nona Rapotan, BookHub
-Nona Rapotan, BookHub
"It is only a matter of well-crafted, subtle gestures, carefully prepared, small visual metaphors, intelligent, understanding dramaturgical work whether a performance achieves its goal, whether it fulfills its promise. I could easily answer that I returned home after Our Town without feeling any sense of loss ."
-Daniel Herman, Helikon
-Daniel Herman, Helikon
“Our Town is a playful and poignant play that forces us to wake up and start living. Set in three acts starting in 1901, Emily revisits her quaint little life through beginnings and endings, guided by a character called the Stage Manager. But surprises arise when memories become reality. Written in 1938 by playwright and poet Thornton Wilder, Our Town is a beloved piece of literature performed regularly in the US in small towns to Broadway for decades. It was revolutionary and even experimental at the time of its premiere, because of its existential theme portrayed in a meta-theatrical way by talking to the audience directly, all with minimal and imaginary aesthetics. I will continue this tradition in a fresh way with my unique perspective as an American female director who grew up in a small American town like the one in our play, and mentored by Gábor Tompa as his MFA Directing student at UC San Diego 10 years ago. In collaboration with these great artists of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, my production investigates the paradox of living and dead through moments of suffering and solitude, worry and waiting, then playfulness and peace. After experiencing our production of Our Town, our audiences will want to hug their loved ones a bit tighter and live life a little fuller."
-Jesca Prudencio
-Jesca Prudencio