What is small, dark and knocks on the door?

Today starts the third edition of the only dark humour festival in southeastern Europe, “Humorror.” The event will be held in the court of the Odeon Theatre and has the theme “To be or not to be handsfree.” Connex, the organiser of the event, will give away $13.500 in prizes for the two sections of the festival: theatre and caricature.

The “InJury” already chose the winners from among the 103 caricatures and 11 theatre plays that participate to the contest.

For the theatre section “Lethalia” the jury is composed of Alice Georgescu, Oana Pellea, Dragos Buhagiar and Alexandru Dabija, and for caricature “Schizographia” – Ion Barbu, Tudor Octavian, Albert Poch, Octav Mardale, Marcel Chirnoaga and Tudor Jebeleanu.

The three categories that caricatures competed for were: “Ethnogenesis and innovation north of the Danube,” “Digital Romania” and “Miorita’s relatives.” The grand prize for the “Schizografia” section ($3000) went to Florin Doru Crihana, for “Oaie tatoo.” The First prize ($2000) was awarded to Mihai Boaca, for “Fara cuvinte,” and second prize ($1000) to Mihai Ignat, for “Turnul Babel.”

The third prize ($500) was awarded to Constantin Pavel, for “Roata etnogenezei.” The participants entered one or two caricatures into the contest.

The originality of the contest resided in the fact that participants were able to enter the contest via Internet at the official site of the festival, www.humorror.ro. The theatre plays will be presented between September 4-8 and the gala is scheduled for September 9.

The plays are: “Azi… ma Ubu!” (Monday Theatre), “Domnul si Doamna Oval” (Act Theatre and The Nonexistent Theatre), “Job” (the National Theatre in Targu Mures), “Podul” (TNB), “ai cu violoncelul ce facem” and “?” (Act Theatre), “Gaitele”, “Familia Tot” and “Cerere in casatorie” (the Sica Alexandrescu Theatre in Brasov), “Emigrantii” (The Nonexistent Theatre), “La bunicul in pod!” (the Ranger group) and “No Man’s Land” (the Incognito group, author and director Camelia Hancu).