Orchestra Titanic — Doko
Updated: Apr 27
Titanic Orchestra(Orchestra Tiitanic) by Hristo Boytchev, opening the 2019–2020 season of the “Victor Ion Popa” Theatre, is a play about drifting, illusion, and the human need to invent meaning when reality no longer provides one. In many productions, Doko remains a secondary figure, a quiet presence amid the chaos of the others.
In this staging, however, the story begins and ends with Doko asleep on stage — a directorial choice that opens an entirely different perspective: perhaps everything we witness unfolds within his dream, perhaps he is the lens through which this strange world takes shape. This ambiguity transforms him into a central, deeply layered character, whose inner evolution breathes through every gesture, glance, and hesitation.
Artist’s Statement — Premiere Night (Est News)
About my role:
Doko is a character who reveals himself gradually, with the shadows he carries within, and whose stories oscillate between reality and fantasy, at times reching the absurd or even the ridiculous. Perhaps he is the only one who, in the end, truly understands the message delivered by the showman; perhaps everything unfolds only within his dream; or perhaps he himself is nothing more than the dream of an eternal spirit.
A character seemingly easy to portray, yet whose unexpected metamorphosis compelled me to build him out of contrasts: brutality and innocence, the force of the irrational and the “foam” of fear, streetwise cunning and an unrestrained fight to defend hope, drowsy hesitation and surprising depths.
How can one translate all of this from the nonexistent world of thought into the decisive world of gesture, tone, and gaze? That is a challenge for any artist — and for anyone who encounters him.
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