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, [...] Citește în continuare
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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 [...] Citește în continuare
“In hell, the most intense anguish is that nobody sees the faces of the others, only their backs, namely the joint solitude”, said a Holy Father. But, since the world we are living in is just an antechamber waiting room of hell, the anguish is just at the beginning and, at this stage, we [...] Citește în continuare
We, as tired East-Europeans that we are, know very well.As well as we do, many other people, living in the century that has just finished, know or knew it. The history has shown them very clearly the right answer for this question. Around it The Suicide is built, the Russian playwright’s work, Nikolai Erdman, written [...] Citește în continuare
If you visit the online magazine called Art Act Magazine (www.artactmagazine.ro), you will find among recent articles, Mihaela Michailov’s hallucinating chronicle of Mihail Sebastian’s “The Holiday Game”, a show staged by Radu Afrim at The Municipal Theatre of Baia Mare. The chronicler read it, and couldn’t believe his eyes. [...] Citește în continuare
Some of us saw her on the Bucharest stages, before or after 1989, and others only in the movies running on T.V. or cinema. No man belonging to the theatre or movie industry, no stage and film lover remains indifferent when hearing her name. Posterity has cherished the styled, colored, opened and so brave image [...] Citește în continuare
“All critics want the good of the art! By the way, the artist has no purpose and he is never asked for his opinion: his work is explained and modified without him, by those that had nothing to do with its creation – but upon whom God bestowed the knowledge that was refused to the [...] Citește în continuare
When he staged the Macbeth-Hamlet-Othello trilogy – also performed in Bucharest in last year’s edition of the Shakespeare Festival – Eimuntas Nekrošius betrayed Shakespeare by enshrouding him with an infinite delicacy in an air of Checkovian sadness and sinking him into the boundless abyss of the Slavonic spirit. At the Sibiu International Theater Festival, Lithuanian [...] Citește în continuare
The Suicide’s story written by Nikolay Erdman is, in short, the story of one of the most profound and indestructible love stories that have ever existed; that between man and himself. It is the „shorted chronicle”, as the playwright would say, not of the times that surround us, but of those inside us. The chronicle [...] Citește în continuare
As we all know, the theater book market is sublime but entirely absent from Romania. There is only one dedicated publishing house, Unitext, whose yearly release counts fewer books than your hand’s fingers. There is also Cartea Romaneasca that publishes very few books by contemporary writers from Miorita‘s land, no matter whether they are playwrights [...] Citește în continuare
Autumn is the harvesting season, isn’t it? Harvesting which is done in a rush, nowadays, as we live in a world that is always in a hurry. We gather the crops, we sort them, we comment on them and we rush to criticise them. And it is also in a rush that we praise them. [...] Citește în continuare
Communism’s collapse left behind not just devastated people but also enough stories for thousand and one of Scheherazade to invent in the following ages. [...] Citește în continuare
It seems that not only the underfunding and the threat of new taxes makes life miserable for Thalia’s servants in the city of Thames. Towards the end of May the actors from renowned theatres are ready to launch a campaign for „better and healthier” working conditions, reports The Stage, a specialized publication. [...] Citește în continuare
Motto: “When you really know what you have to do there’s no more room for miracles” The interest of the playwright for the rehearsals is not a paradox as long as he is tormented by the procedure trough which, depending on the context, his text is mocked or enriched. This situation is valid most of [...] Citește în continuare
