Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The in:vzbl Festival, organized by the Basca Theatre, brought six shows from Serbia, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria to Timișoara, Romania in October 2025 and November 2025 specifically to draw attention to life and struggles in rural communities.
The six shows featured interactive performances, forum theatre, stories with ecological themes, and social documentaries with the intention that invisible voices can be expressed in a safe space, hidden problems become visible, individual trauma is transformed into collective healing, and where social isolation is diminished.
"(Dez)Rădăcinare" / "(Up)Rooting" by Basca Theatre, Timișoara, Romania
"(Up)Rooting" is about where we came from, who we were, who we are, who we want to be, and where we are heading. It's about how we understand to connect or reconnect with a place that many of us have forgotten, from which most of us draw our roots and where the fun, the tragicomic, the fatalism, the eternity, and the habit of politely and reflexively greeting anyone who passes by on the road was surely born.
"(Up)Rooting"
Text by Andrei Ursu
Directed by Ana Maria Ursu
Actors: Jacqueline Kohl and Andrei Zgăbaia
Set design: Daria Pau
Choreography: Vika Medviedeva
Lighting/sound: Otniel Floruț
The in:vzbl Festival, organized by the Basca Theatre, brought six shows from Serbia, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria to Timișoara, Romania in October 2025 and November 2025 specifically to draw attention to life and struggles in rural communities.
The six shows featured interactive performances, forum theatre, stories with ecological themes, and social documentaries with the intention that invisible voices can be expressed in a safe space, hidden problems become visible, individual trauma is transformed into collective healing, and where social isolation is diminished.
"(Dez)Rădăcinare" / "(Up)Rooting" by Basca Theatre, Timișoara, Romania
"(Up)Rooting" is about where we came from, who we were, who we are, who we want to be, and where we are heading. It's about how we understand to connect or reconnect with a place that many of us have forgotten, from which most of us draw our roots and where the fun, the tragicomic, the fatalism, the eternity, and the habit of politely and reflexively greeting anyone who passes by on the road was surely born.
"(Up)Rooting"
Text by Andrei Ursu
Directed by Ana Maria Ursu
Actors: Jacqueline Kohl and Andrei Zgăbaia
Set design: Daria Pau
Choreography: Vika Medviedeva
Lighting/sound: Otniel Floruț
