RAMONA

Ramona is a romantic and tragic love story between two locomotives to steam of yesteryear. In the postwar Soviet Union, locomotive Ermon faces a long journey to Siberia where he is sent to work on peacetime reconstruction of the country. Locomotive Ramona waits for her husband at the small station in Rioni, cultivating dreams of living happily together. But their separation lasts first months, then long years that the heroes face distant from each other in good times and bad until to when a traveling circus comes to town and Ramona's life is changed forever. The distant lovers will meet again, but under what circumstances? Will they be able to to find their lost love?

On stage are the poetic characters of Rezo Gabriadze, a Georgian theater and film director, but also a screenwriter, writer, painter and sculptor, a masterful architect of a unique theatrical style that combines humor to heartbreaking pain in a world of mysteriously human puppets.

Inspired by Kipling's phrase "The locomotive is, along with the marine engine, the most delicate thing ever built by man," I decided to write about it too. Engine to steam, this word from long forgotten, evokes endless suggestions in my mind: evanescent clouds of steam, the smell of burning coal, thick smoke even in the rain. I am flooded from a different form of happiness thinking of the engine to steam - I think of the circus, the smell of tarpaulin, sawdust and the stable. The circus of my childhood. Two of my greatest passions coming together: the to steam engine and the circus. Something that seemed forgotten forever. All this prompted me to to tell about that heavenly feeling I found myself in, from to which life seemed instead to have permanently removed me." Rezo Gabriadze