It’s a hundred year old game, a parlour game, a simple and a little harsh way of making one tell the truth… If theatre means truthfulness and if the people in the theatre world accept us, we are challenging them to answer and we give Proust’s Questionnaire to everyone who will talk to us, here at Yoicks. Today, Ileana Olteanu…
1. The most important feature
Normality
2. The quality I want to see in a man
The sense of humour, honesty, intelligence
3. The quality I most like in a woman
Kindness
4. What I appreciate the most at my friends
Their help when I need it
5. My main flaw
Selfishness
6. My favourite activity
Reading
7. Happiness, as I dream of it
Harmony, love, peace
8. Which would be my greatest unhappiness?
Not being able to love
9. The place where I would like to live
In the country
10. My favourite colour
Green
11. Favourite flower
White Water lily
12. My favourite bird
The dove
13. My favourite writers
Dino Buzzati, Lidia Stăniloae Ionescu, Pr. Nicolae
14. My favourite poets
Mihai Eminescu
15. My favourite literary and real life heroes
Mâşkin, Father Justin Pârvu, Father Arsenie Papacioc
16. My favourite literary and real life heroines
Queen Maria, Elizabeta Rizea, My Mother, My Grandmother
17. My favourite composers
Chopin, Mahler, Enescu
18. My favourite painters
Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, Ştefan Câlţia, Sorin Ilfoveanu
19. What I hate the most
Lying
20. The gift I would like to have
The gift of loving people
21. How I would like to die
Next to my husband
22. Flaws which I deplore
Stinginess
23. My motto
God protects us and he always knows what is best for us!
24. My current state of mind
I’m happy!
Translated by Andreea Geanina Velicu, MTTLC, 1st year
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