MOONSTRUCK PIERROT gives the Romanian public the chance to view an unprecedented show of white pantomime. Within this form of pantomime – in Fialka’s style – the gesture translates the word. Unlike the pantomime style of Marceau, where the mime uses figurative gestures easily recognizable by spectators, in white pantomime a gesture is imposed by the words needing expression, and allow for a wider range of feelings to be exposed.

The show is composed of different moments of pantomime, all of which are exposing Pierrot, the charming character born in the suburbs of Paris, always in love with Colombina, with himself, with life. One can thus, watching the performance, get to know Pierrot as a photographer, lover, singer, angler and tragedian and in other different settings, all of the scenes displaying a subtle, quality humor.

 As a character, Pierrot has lived for exactly 95 years, from 1830 when he was born in the suburbs of Paris, at the Theatre of Funambules, until 1925 when his extraordinary life of a fabulous character ended. He was the one that the simple man looked up to as a carrier of his hopes and dreams; he was the one that made them laugh. After his theatrical death, he went on living in thousands of knick-knacks displaying him in all of his renowned postures. In nearly all of the known scenes, there were three characters: Pierrot, Colombina and Arlechino, the latter in all of his variations always an adversary of Pierrot that needed be defeated. In love with Colombina - either the wife of an old and potbellied Arlechino, or a mere young lady that happened to be in his way – always curious about everything surrounding him, tricky as can be, dancer, singer, actor, clown, all of these and many more, Pierrot also possessed a poetic dimension. He was in love with the moon as one can be in love with the infinite. Pierrot is a wonderer through dreams and stars, a little prince that gathers flowers and then offers them to the most beautiful woman – the moon. Pierrot is moonstruck because of his love for the sad, fragile, and shy moon, which he loves as a woman, and which he does not want to leave alone through the cold and most dark night.

“If out of curiosity should you ever stop in front of our stage, you’d feel carried away to the beginning of the 19th century, to a Paris that knew how to laugh because he was healthy, young and beautiful. When night comes down over the shores of Seine, everything comes to a halt, because, beyond hundreds of gargoyles, a red and orphic moon arises. On some of these nights, they say, one could see a white-powdered being flying towards the moon, in his long white garments, like a ghost, like the whispered love song of a late romantic poet. Pierrot still lives, they say, and one can see him on the sky of full-moon nights” (Director Mihai Malaimare)

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