The edition of the event Doors Open Night enjoyed the presence of over 3. Along the seven hours of the event, the team of the theatre welcomed spectators at several events, some traditional, some new, with a free entrance. This year, our thoughts and support went to the Estuar Foundation. Established in , it is the first Romanian organization to create for adults with mental health problems a network of community and home day care services, certified and acknowledged at the local, national and international level.
The Estuar Foundation is active in four Romanian cities, Bucharest, Ploiesti, Giurgiu and Cluj and serves yearly over beneficiaries. The financial difficulties faced now by the Estuar Foundation determined us to return to the charitable character our event used to have from the first edition, when the Doors Open Night was organized for the support of our colleague, director Mona Marian.
Funds collected on that occasion through your generosity had an essential contribution in the palliative treatment undergone by our colleague in her final months of life.
So, at the present edition of the event, the entrance remained free, but we encouraged donations for the benefit of the Estuar Foundations, of its beneficiaries and of our entire community. In exchange, every donor could help himself with lavender, generously provided by Casa Boian and "dressed" in our theatre's workshops. The program of the event included workshops of dance, globe painting and theatre make up, but also a series of meetings with theatre actors.
Theatre visitors were given the chance of minute individual meetings with an actor. In a series of interviews made with them a few days after the event by Eugenia Sarvari, the actors described their experience as follows:. I had emotions for almost the entire day and I prepared for the meeting almost like for a performance, so I hereby declare I intend to repeat this experience next year.
