BOBI PRICOP
Country: Romania
The Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu
Biography
Bobi Pricop is one of the most acclaimed directors of the new generation in Romanian theatre, recognised for his innovative approach to integrating new media and immersive technologies into performance. Nominated multiple times for the UNITER Award for Best Director, he has been included since 2017 on the nomination list for the Europe Prize “New Theatrical Realities.” Since 2014, Pricop has served as resident artistic director at the National Theatre in Craiova, where he has also coordinated the international Theatre Networking Talents festival. In 2022, he became associate professor at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, and in 2024, artistic director of the Regina Maria Theatre in Oradea. His recent productions include Nora at the National Theatre Târgu-Mureș, A Monster Calls and Solaris at Excelsior Theatre Bucharest, and The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco at the National Theatre Craiova.
Portfolio & Latest Theatre Performances :
https://www.bobipricop.com
https://teatrunational.ro/play/nora-lr-2025/
https://teatrul-excelsior.ro/spectacol/solaris/
https://tncms.ro/spectacole/lectia-2/
https://teatrunational.ro/play/tradare/
https://www.teatrultandarica.ro/frumoasa-si-bestia/
https://teatruldramaturgilor.ro/anticlimax/
https://www.tnrs.ro/ro/events/neintelegerea-3
The Misunderstanding
Concept of the Performance:
The Misunderstanding explores the fundamental impossibility of authentic communication, especially with those closest to us. Bobi Pricop’s production transforms Camus’s existential tragedy into a haunting meditation on isolation, transactional relationships, and the predatory individualism of contemporary society. Using large lateral screens projecting obsessive close-ups of the actors’ faces, the performance becomes a visual poem of emptied meaning and eroded humanity, the very collapse of language itself. The brutalist-industrial scenography evokes a cold, rain-soaked world where a mother and daughter dream of southern warmth, their utopian longing turning into a justification for murder. Through Jan’s tragedy, killed by his own mother and sister who fail to recognise him, the production interrogates the masks we wear in our social roles and the superficial differences we allow to divide us.
Artistic Statement :
The Misunderstanding remains a fundamental landmark of twentieth-century theater, a play that compels me to return to it again and again. This play speaks about a permanent fear of not being recognized, of not being truly seen, about a burning desire to communicate authentically, to be « understood » especially by those closest to us. The characters are like children searching for their place, for love, for acceptance, but who experience only lovelessness, abandonment, rejection. The Misunderstanding refers to the limits of communication with the other, how much we understand, how much we desire to be understood, a permanent state of anxiety that seduces you into believing happiness is always elsewhere. (Bobi Pricop)
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