Diaries of Defiance: Oana Pellea Stars in "The Silent Escape"
Wed, 12 Mar
|The Shaw Theatre
Part of Romania's programme at the London Book Fair 2025


Time & Location
12 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
The Shaw Theatre, 100, 110 Euston Rd., London NW1 2AJ, UK
About the event
Romanian stage legend, beloved Oana Pellea, returns to London starring in The Silent Escape, a compelling performance inspired by the diaries of artist Lena Constante.
The play, brilliantly adapted for the stage and directed by Oana Pellea, is a story of survival, inner freedom and resistance against oppression. It is based on the harrowing experiences of visual artist and memoirist Lena Constante (1909 – 2005) written during her long and dark years in communist prisons. There is none other than Oana Pellea to convey the author’s emotions better, suffering and invincible hope through art and introspection.
Join us for this momentous one-woman show! Expect to be moved, shaken and ultimately changed by this theatrical experience.
The show is presented in Romanian with English surtitles.