"Caligula becomes equally a political and a moral spectacle. What triggers in Caius Caligula the death of his wife (and also his sister), Drusilla, is not an incurable attack of madness, but the revelation of human unhappiness and social hypocrisy. It is a whole maieutic process that Caligula initiates and pushes to the last consequences (his own death), in order to give others the opportunity to discover the truth in themselves. The truth of what matters in life: a woman you love (and whom the emperor turned into a prostitute), a parent or son (whom the emperor killed), solidarity, the sense of freedom."
Iulia Popovici, Destroying for a better world, Observator Cultural, March 2011
"Bocsárdi knew he had to come to Craiova, because here he will find the real Caligula, embodied by one of the few actors in Romania who can give credibility to this character. Sorin Leoveanu turns the ambiguous and heterogeneous emperor, the adept of bizarre assassination, from the man thirsty for the absolute, perverted and incestuous, into a romantic hero, almost easy to understand, humanized by a dream within everyone's reach: the search for freedom."
Dan Boicea, Fascinating Caligula, Literary and Artistic Truth, April 5, 2011
Cast::
CALIGULA – SORIN LEOVEANU
CHEREA – ILIE GHEORGHE
HELICON – VALENTIN MIHALI
CAESONIA – GABRIELA BACIU
SCIPIO – VLAD POPESCU
SENECTUS – VALER DELLAKEZA
METELLUS – ADRIAN ANDONE
LEPIDUS – ION COLAN
CASSIUS – ANGEL RABABOC
MUCIUS – NICOLAE POGHIRC
MEREIA – EUGEN TITU
PATRICIUS – CĂTĂLIN BĂICUŞ
SOŢIA LUI MUCIUS – IULIA LAZĂR
DRUSILLA – CLAUDIA NISIPAŞU
PATRICIANS: TUDOREL PETRESCU, ŞTEFAN MIREA, MIRCEA TUDOSĂ
THE MUSICIAN – ION BUTNARU
POETS: COSMIN RĂDESCU, ŞTEFAN CEPOI, DRAGOŞ MĂCEŞANU, MARIAN POLITIC, DRAGOŞ ANDRONIE, ALEXANDRU IONUŢ MARCU, ALEXANDRU MĂNDOIU
GUARDIANS: IULICĂ GRECU, CRISTI PETEC, NICU GURAN, NICU STANA, ALIN STAN, GIANI MIU
LOT: DARIA CIOBANU, ALESIA PETEC, ANDREEA NICOLAE, LAVINIA NICOLAE, ALEXANDRU DRAGOMIR, EMY GURAN, MINELA POPA, MIHAELA GURAN, MARIETA MIERLA, MARIANA SĂCEANU, MIRELA NICOLAE, LAVINIA PETEC, ELENA COTEA, LILI SÎRBU, SANDA LICAN, MONICA DRAGOMIR, ALEXANDRU COTEA, TOMA STRATONIE
