Tristețe și Bucurie în viața girafelor is the lighting credit that already names two theaters: Teatrul Mic in Bucharest and Teatrul Alexei Mateevici in Chișinău. The portfolio calls it an international co-production and describes the light as following the emotional arc of giraffes moving between sadness and joy. Directed by Edda Coza and Dan Coza, printed that way on the sheet. Tony's line is lighting design, not a performing role and not video.
Two houses means the plot has to travel. The page does not invent a touring rider, a shared dimmer count, or which city premiered. It does treat the published fact as the important one: the same lighting design is claimed across Bucharest and Chișinău. That is the closest thing in the archive to a technical-direction problem stated out loud — one design, two buildings — while the credit itself remains lighting. Efectul is the other pure lighting credit, and it is the opposite brief: a single psychological ripple, surgical and stark, with no second city mentioned. The giraffes need an arc. Efectul needs a cut.
Dacă cineva caută lighting design pe o coproducție București–Chișinău, titlul acesta este precedenta publicată, la Teatrul Mic și la Teatrul Alexei Mateevici. Nu scriem "technical director" pe afișul lor. Scriem ce scrie arhiva: lighting design, regia Edda Coza și Dan Coza, lumina urmărind arcul dintre tristețe și bucurie.
Producers comparing Tony's lighting should read Efectul and Clovni beside this and notice the spread: an international co-production, a chamber psychological piece, and a show that pairs light with video. The through-line is that the light is dramaturgy, not a service wash. The city on his contact line is still Bucharest. The second city belongs to this title alone.
Tristețe și Bucurie în viața girafelor is published as Lighting Design — International. International co-production Teatrul Mic (Bucharest) × Teatrul Alexei Mateevici (Chișinău). Lighting following the emotional arc of giraffes navigating sadness and joy.
Seen beside the rest of the archive, Tristețe și Bucurie în viața girafelor sits next to Sirene pe Dâmbovița (Video Design), Fire de lumina (Video · Laser Design), Cosmic Latte (Laser · Lighting · Video Design). The point of keeping them on separate URLs is that a search for the piece, and a search for the job, land on a page that names Tony Macpela and the actual credit — Lighting Design — International — rather than on a single scrolling file the crawler never finished reading.
Hiring the Lighting Design — International credit on Tristețe și Bucurie în viața girafelor means hiring Tony Macpela in Bucharest, an actor who also designs laser, video, and interactive systems — not a CNC cutting shop, and not an anonymous rental house. The director named on the credit is Dir. Edda Coza & Dan Coza. The published description is the brief he is willing to print. Write to maccpela@gmail.com or call +40 720 906 907 and name the credit you need, so the acting conversation and the design conversation stay distinct.