This is an old game, a society game, a simple and slightly abrupt form of determining one to tell the truth…If theatre means truth and if those involved in it accept us, we dare them to answer; and we put before their eyes…’Proust’s Questionnaire’. Today, actor and director Ion Sapdaru… [...] Citește în continuare
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“Wonderful! Congratulations! I am living abroad and for me a play per night would give me the necessary pill to help me cure my homesickness. Now, with this playbill I can take my antidote for homesickness control when the smallest signs appear, and not only at night.” this is a message, only one of the [...] Citește în continuare
“The Stage” is announcing an event which will delight the theatre lovers: the famous Jeremy Irons, known to all cinemagoers from many interesting films, not all of the same value, will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company after an absence of 23 years. The captivating actor will star in a play at the Hampstead Theatre. [...] Citește în continuare
At the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj the director Andrei Şerban stages a theatrical adaptation of the cinematic masterpiece Cries and whispers by Ingmar Bergman, the show will be taking place at the new studio hall. [...] Citește în continuare
In his Poetics, Aristotle considered that the best tragedies are those in which the characters go though or carry out something. By carrying out we mean the action of killing: But when the tragic incident occurs between those who are near or dear to one another- if, for example, a brother kills, or intends to [...] Citește în continuare
Probably the most important children’s theatre in Romania, Ion Creanga theatre was left without the headquarters. The media, way too busy with the endless political scandals and the crisis, as the saying goes „steps on everything”, was limited only in broadcasting it on the news. At the end of October the theatre informed on its [...] Citește în continuare
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 [...] Citește în continuare
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, [...] Citește în continuare
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 [...] Citește în continuare
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 [...] Citește în continuare
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 [...] Citește în continuare
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 [...] Citește în continuare
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 [...] Citește în continuare
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. [...] Citește în continuare
