Heated Minds 2020

10 years after the show Heated Minds, staged in 2010, documenting the events of June 13-15, 1990, Heated Minds 2020 investigates the health system in Romania, from the perspective of public-private relations, focusing on the current health crisis caused by SARS-CoV-2. The show analyzes the causes of the vulnerability of the medical system: the dismantling of public services and the effects of the destruction of the welfare state, the dangers of austerity measures and privatization.

Heated Minds 2020 is a performance about the painful consequences of choosing profit and the logic of economic efficiency at all costs over public interest and social medicine.

Performance crew – Text: Mihaela Michailov & David Schwartz; with: Alexandru Potocean, Oana Rusu, Teodora Retegan, Maria Sgârcitu; scenography: Irina Gâdiuță; music: Teodora Retegan & Maria Sgârcitu; choreography: Mihai Mihalcea; research collaborator: Dora Constantinovici; directed by: David Schwartz.

Partners – Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Replika Educational Theater Center, Gallery 26

Film crew – Image and lighting design: Dragoș Hanciu; camera: Dragoş Hanciu, Jaro Minne, Alexandru Radu; sound: Flora Pop; sound mixing: Teodora Rețegan; production, directing, editing and coloring: Alexandru Radu.