Ionesco Obsessions in Scenic Imagery Signed Gábor Tompa

Abstract

Among the reference creators in the Romanian theatrical space, but also internationally, the director Gábor Tompa had a constant attraction for the aesthetics of Eugene Ionescu's texts, which strongly influenced his path of perfection and ranking among the most important directors. In 1992, at the Hungarian Theater of Cluj, Gábor Tompa staged the memorable theater play The Bald Soprano, a performance that will represent one of the pillars of his later career. Then, in 2003, the theater performance elaborated by Gábor Tompa using the text Jacques or the Obedience, at the Hungarian Theater of Cluj, can be called a total one, in which the decryption of the Ionescian message was done with a lot of fantasy and suggestive black humor. In 2014, he rebuilt the The New Tenant on the stage of Nottara Theater in Bucharest. The staging was well received by the general public, but also by the theater people, also appreciated by the selection among the best performances in prestigious festivals of 2014. At the beginning of 2020, Rhinoceros appears to Gábor Tompa as an extremely percussive text, which determines its staging at the Mihai Eminescu National Theater of Timişoara, enjoying an authentic success. Until now, the stage imagery signed by Gábor Tompa, will remain a reference page of theatrical constructions and Eugene Ionesco's texts, real revelations, owning well-articulated messages on stage, reflecting socio-human realities and concurrently, a real urge to reflect.