I Like Beethoven
produced by Moving Academy for Performing Arts, Amsterdam

Theatrical adaptation after The Fever by Wallace Shawn
Kunstlerhof-Buch Berlin, 1998. Toured venues in Germany, the Czech Republic and Hungary, between August and September 1998

Directed by Nona Ciobanu
Cast: Iulian Bãltãtescu, Guy Pratah Morelle, Adelaida Zamfira, Ana Olteanu
Costumes& Slides: Ana Olteanu
Video Concept: Nona Ciobanu
Light Design: Iulian Bãltãtescu
Light Desk: Alexandre Malta
Sound Desk: Juraj Aras
Projection&Video Desk: Sjoerd van Heiningen

The circle is the dominant motif in I Like Beethoven, recurring as the toilet seat metamorphosis continuously. With the same ingenuity that we admired in earlier shows, Nona Ciobanu injects complex meaning in this otherwise trivial object. In turn, the toilet seat becomes a book (The Capital, by Karl Marx), the wings of angel, the gate to (failed) altruism or the mirror of introspection. These symbolic avatars become a flexible visual counterpart to the character’s turmoil.
Mihnea Mircan, The Stage