The present work is not a vote of censure on the present-day Romanian theatrical system. It is not even a criticism. However, it is a look from the outside, through the eyes of the people who should be part of this system and yet they are not. This happens not because they lack any attribute [...]

If anyone counted the types of stories they knew, they would reach a surprisingly small number.  Our equivalent for “King Lear” is “Like salt in dishes”. And we keep hearing about the true love of youngsters, the hands of which their parents had promised to God knows who in exchange for some hugely profitable business, [...]

 Imagine a photo shop from another century. Then imagine a love story that starts in a dark park in Budapest under a flash light, continues somewhere in the other world and ends some place in this world. Time freezes in photographs, space slightly melts and constantly slides from the inward to the outward and sometimes [...]

                     The 2009 National Theatre Festival has come and gone. And, because it was feverishly preoccupied with the present, it forgot to remember the past. The 2008 edition that took place last year did not remember that, 10 years ago, the footsteps of Leopoldina Bălănuţă were heard for the last time on the floors of [...]

She is an actress at the National Theater in Bucharest and she is part of Dan Puric’s drama company. She has performed on the greatest stages of the world, in plays directed by Dan Puric and she can be seen in eight plays at the National Theater in Bucharest. After graduating, she received a scholarship [...]

Some reviewers presumably commenting upon The National Theatre Festival: 2009 Edition.  The daily papers weren’t particularly eager to reflect the recently closed edition of The National Theatre Festival, as they used to do in the past, probably being overwhelmingly involved into the issues of the everlasting finacial crisis, of the no-existent Government, and so on [...]

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 [...]

The nineteenth edition of the National Theatre Festival ended last night. If we listen to the more or less belligerent declarations made by the organizers, this year’s edition acquires an impressive heroic aura.

It has always been every man’s dream to discover a time machine able to take him through space and carry him through the centuries, sit him next to kings and queens, drop him by the craftsmen’s workshops from times of yore, enter the ball rooms in the shining of candle lights and the sumptuous costumes, [...]

At Sibiu, the Theater ‘Radu Stanca’ started the fall with a miniseason. Thirteen plays performed in nine days. Among them, three premieres: ‘Turandot’ staged by Andriy Zholdak, ‘LaBute & Friends’, staged by Radu Alexandru Nica and ‘Oscar and the Lady in Pink’ staged and interpreted by Diana Fufezan. In addition, a return of all to [...]