Tonight: Lola Blau
by Georg Kreisler
Yiddish translation by Leo Scadach
Romanian translation by Sultana Gagea
Lola Blau is the alter ego of the author, Georg Kreisler. Writer and character are both Viennese Jews. Both leave Austria in time to escape deportation. Both return to Austria after the war, having launched careers as entertainers. Both look clear-eyed at the world around them and attack it from the height of a devastating satire, one that ought to unsettle any spectator, however comfortably seated.
Director: Alexandru Dabija
Set design: Puiu Antemir
Costumes: Doina Levintza, Puiu Antemir
Movement: Adina Cezar
Lola Blau: Maia Morgenstern
Pianist: Marius Popp / Andrei Mădescu / Doina Rusu / Tatiana Moroșanu
Genre
Dramatic musical
Language
Yiddish, German and English (with Romanian surtitles)
Running time
90 minutes (no interval)
Premiere
1 December 1993