WHAT ABOUT WRITING A

SCRIPT ABOUT YOUR FEARS

a journey into the inner world of any of us

ANTONIO ANDREI
FIM, 1411
 To have something to write, you have to live
It’s all about sincerity. 6 STEPS TO FOLLOW

There should be as few things as you do just to be

accepted.
Keep a journal. Writing with sincerity is good. In
addition, you will be able to read it in 10, 20, 30 years.
Keep your childhood friendships. They are most likely
to last a lifetime.
No problem if you don't know what to do next. It's even
more exciting: you have a lot of possibilities open.
Eventually you will find that something of yours.
It's very okay to be wrong. It is very normal to have
failures.
Read, go to the theater, go to the movies. You won't be Romanita Ionescu in OUTSIDE. FAR AWAY. ON FIELD by Antonio
Andrei, Teatrul National Marin Sorescu, Craiova, 2019
able to live without it later.
By sincerity do we mean autobiography?

Sincerity matters a
lot. At Ideo Ideis I Medeea Marinescu in
“LONELINESS LESSON IN THE
was asked what I MOST INAPPROPRIATE
MOMENTS” by Antonio Andrei,
would advise directed by Felix Alexa, TNB,
teenagers who want 2022

to start writing and

I said "be honest, if
you're honest, you PRIZE FOR
WRITER OF THE
can't help but feel YEAR(ANTONIO ANDREI), 2021
good".
 Yes, it's a controlled freedom. That's exactly
it. The same feeling as in bungee jumping,
when you go crazy, but you have the certainty
that you are very well anchored by the cable.
You are anchored in reality, so nothing can
happen to you. I think we have to allow
ourselves to slip away from reality, otherwise
it's boring.

©foto FLORIN GHIOCA –

The theater gives you the freedom to experiment, Antonio Andrei won for
the second time the

although it may be a controlled freedom

UNITER award for the
best Romanian script of
the year
 WHY THEATRE?

• Isn't it a bit risky to write a drama, for your

work to become foreign to you being
transcripted by a director?
“I have lived both cases and I consider it an
experience you have to go through.’’
- Antonio Andrei

© Mihai Dascalu, “7 MINUTES” by Antonio Andrei,

directed by Eugen Jebeleanu, Teatrul National Timisoara, 2020
“ AN IMMATURE PARENT - THE
MAIN TOPIC IN MY SCRIPTS

”
© Adi Bulboaca, “AFTER PARTY” by Antonio Andrei,
directed by GIANINA CARBUNARIU, Teatrul Tineretului Piatra Neamt, 2020

Iulia Popovici says very nicely in the chronicle of one of my texts

that "adults compete with teenagers in the corridors of love". Are
adults some gray-haired teenagers who didn't know how to mature?
 Writing theater is an experience with
YOURSELF
Snippet from
It's an experience. You know, like it “LONELINESS LESSON
IN THE MOST
was in Alice in Wonderland… When INAPPROPRIATE
you slip on the rabbit hole… you MOMENTS” by Antonio
Andrei,
jump inside to see what's out there,
what other characters have
appeared, what towers of situations ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
you can invent. But theater, writing TO UNITER
should not be a personal therapy, to
expose your demons - rather a group
therapy. Try to discover the demons
around you, tame them, have a glass
of wine with them. Theater is a play
of the unknown.
 A CHARACTER IS NOT ALWAYS A
TRANSPOSITION OF YOUR MIND

• HEART MECHANICS …Maybe my darkest

text, a story about abuse.
• Apparently, that character is very far from
me, but on the other hand, he reacts in a
way that I sometimes do, and I think many
of us do that: for fear of accepting painful
things, we pretend that they don't exist,
we put them under the rug.
photo Mica Fotografa – Eda Marcus, Isabela Totea, Maruca
Bosiasu, in HEART MECHANICS by Antonio Andrei, UNATC
2022, stage vision for graduation GEORGE IVASCU
 “I think that a theatrical text must first of
all tell a story. I'm interested in a live,
current theater about the here and now. I am
particularly concerned about the extent to
which politics influences individual destinies.
In theater, the story will always exist. Only
the way it is said will change. And because all
the stories have already been told, as a
playwright I am always looking for new
structures, new ways of telling. For me, the
architecture of a text is very important and I
try to build my pieces like musical
compositions in which each character has his
voice.”

- ANTONIO ANDREI
 BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Personal experience in theater writings (the winner of the

UNITER award for The Best Romanian Script - 2019, 2021
•https://www.b-critic.ro/spectacol/teatru/portret-antonio-and
rei/
• https://www.fabulamundi.eu/ro/antonio-andrei-2/
• https://www.liternet.ro/autor/3633/Antonio-Andrei.html