The Uprising

Social inequality, manipulation, distrust of the political class, accumulated tensions waiting only for a small spark to erupt violently. It's the year 1907, Romania is young, the world is seething. A little over a hundred years later, we look back on that moment with an uncomfortable feeling of familiarity. The world of Rebreanu's novel, brought onto the Reactor stage almost as an act of self-defiance, is motley, cruel and fascinating - an excellently mummified ancestor holding the key to our identity, one who can tell us where we come from and, if we're not careful, where we might end up.