Performances

The girls were dying to go bike riding again so we finished our school work and borrowed the bikes again. We stopped at a park where they had a balance beam that was on springs, making it tricky to cross, but before long the girls and I had mastered it!

We had to rush to make it to the downtown area in time for a performance called Angelic, one of the performances during the international theatre festival going on now in Sibiu. Unfortunately the performance had been rescheduled to an hour earlier! Ahhhh. Oh well. They had another performer doing juggling tricks with some of the instruments we had seen old Chinese guys exercising with in the park in Beijing! Of course this guy was doing slightly more complicated tricks than the old fellow!

When that completed, we wandered the streets a bit before we made our way to the Gong Theatre to see “Hand-me-downs”, a play about a charity shop and the stories behind some of the items in the shop. It made you think twice about various approaches to charity.

By this time it was getting to be supper so we found a restaurant with seating along the walking street. This was particularly convenient because there was another show, “The Always Drinking Marching Band” was performing right next to us. They were funny but their music was actually very good too.

After supper we hurried to the small square where “Pandora’s Boxes” was going on. She was hilarious. I’m not sure the Romanians were getting her subtle play on words, but Nadim and I, and some of the other English speakers in the crowd were laughing pretty hard!

The last show was amazing. “Isseo” by Belgium performers had a lot of humour, but also some incredible acrobatics. The man was able to balance himself horizontally on a vertical pole using only his feet! He also had such strength that he could climb the pole using only his hands – no arm or leg even touched the pole. The woman was also incredible. She had graceful dance movements as she supported herself in the air with a length of white fabric.

We had such a great time. It was starting to get dark by the time we were ready to leave and Yasmin was still asking for more performances. Although they both loved it, I think Yasmin particularly enjoyed it.

CM