Inside JANUS: Autobiographical Theatre as the Language of the Soul
- Solis srls
- May 27
- 2 min read
What happens when theatre is not a show, but shared breath? What if telling your story is not therapy, but a collective artistic act?
The JANUS FESTIVAL is not just an event — it is a space of resonance, not entertainment. It doesn’t offer answers, but mirrors. It doesn’t produce products, but processes. Here, the emotional, the poetic, and the invisible take shape on stage, as presence, voice, and collective meaning.
We invite you to dive into the official JANUS leaflet. This is not a simple brochure. It’s a living piece of scenic thought, a poetic manifesto on youth, mental health, and the transformative power of storytelling.
🎭 Autobiographical Theatre is not a technique. It’s a territory.
As the festival unfolds in Târgu-Mureș (Romania), we share a deeper look at the methodology behind the performances. Autobiographical Theatre transforms lived experience into artistic material — not for therapeutic purposes, but as a radical practice of emotional expression, self-inquiry, and social transformation.
Through a guided process that includes trust, storytelling, transcription, research, narrative, aesthetic creation, performance, colloquium, and dissemination, participants co-create theatre rooted in truth, vulnerability, and fiction.
“We are not made of atoms, but of story particles.”
These stories are not fiction. They are lived truths, performed with courage and artistic care by young people navigating silence, pressure, isolation, and resilience.
🌍 A European Journey of Shared Stories
The JANUS Festival marks the closing of the Erasmus+ project “Youth Vulnerabilities in a Europe Without Borders” (KA220-YOU), coordinated by the University of Arts Târgu-Mureș, in collaboration with:
🎓 University of Arts Târgu-Mureș (Coordinator – Romania)
🟨 SOLIS SRLS (Italy)
🟪 Fundația Professional (Romania)
🟦 ShipCon Limassol Ltd. (Cyprus)
📍 Venue: Studio Theatre – Str. Köteles Sámuel 6, Târgu-Mureș🗓 Dates: 2–5 June 2025🎟 Free entrance
🧠 Theatre as Mental Hygiene
“Self-narrative—what you live, remember, feel, and project—are particles of your identity… When those atoms create movies in your head with unsettling scenes and fatalistic endings, your mental health begins to crack.”
Ferrandis writes with clarity and depth about what lies beneath the surface of youth distress: fear, uncertainty, loneliness, pressure to perform, social media, trauma. JANUS offers a space to express, embody, and transform these internal struggles into scenic fiction — with the audience as witness, not judge.
Autobiographical Theatre becomes a ritual of visibility. A method of metabolizing emotions together. A shared language for what hurts.
📖 Read the leaflet slowly. Not as a spectator, but as someone who also carries cracks inside.Perhaps in these words, scenes, and stories — you will find something of yourself.
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