He’s colossal when you see him on stage, among the children, he’s the Magician who charms the whole universe with only a word. He’s delicate and frail when he portrays Lear’s sad court jester… and then King Lear himself. He’s powerful and seductive in Petruchio, he’s Rica Venturiano and nothing more, he’s tormented by Raskolnikov, [...]

“This time is out of joint: O cursed spite, hat ever I was born to set it right”. These are the words Hamlet uses to open the first path to the heart of the story and in the depths of which he will be thrown. They are the signs of the first awakening.Act I. Scene [...]

At the beginning of January, theaters don’t usually have new performances. So, what I would like to talk to you about is not a new performance but a story that is as hot as a freshly baked loaf and which started twenty years ago.

Another ordinary day in a snow covered Moravian town. Carrying a bag in his  hand he crosses the street, avoiding the cars not equipped with proper winter tires. I offer my hand to one of the few persons able to talk about the scruff of the pig and about Dostoievski with the same pleasure and [...]

“The artist in me doesn’t need the mirror, but the woman, does”, confesses Leny Caler in her autobiographic work “The Artist and the Mirror” (Universal Dali Publishing House, 2002). Just like a dedicated collector, she exhibits with infinite care her professional and sentimental memories, shedding light over the uncovered treasures, without leaving aside, however, the [...]

The abundance of angles Charlie Chaplin’s works can be looked at provides also the possibility of psychoanalytical reference between what was exposed on the film and Charlie Chaplin’s life.
From Freudian perspective, Chaplin digs the source of his plots, as well as future political convictions in childhood. His parents were entertainers, Charlie comes into contact with [...]

At the Studio Hall of the Comedy Theatre, in Strindberg’s Fröken Julie (Miss Julie), directed by Liviu Lucaci, come together three energies successfully creating a universe and getting the message across. Strindberg’s world, risen from the darkened lands of humankind, as fits modern drama, comes to life in a set pertaining to Flemish painting. This [...]

The passengers who were passing through the subway station Piaţa Unirii 2 on Saturday, 16th January, and did not choose one of the two directions of the Track 2 or did not leave the station, had the chance to watch the most recent performance of Masca Theatre, namely “Pierrot le fou”. Some people stopped on [...]

Yorick, as you well know, is not a journalist. God forbid, this job didn’t even exist when he was born, but it was invented in the meantime, so, compared to me, it is a young lass that he is looking at with a little bit of admiration, and some humour…

In one of the past issues of the magazine, I was talking about the first of the bilingual albums – English and Romanian – published at the end of 2008 by the Romanian Cultural Institute, which follows, through photos, the steps Andrei Serban has taken in theatre and in opera.