Festivalul Naţional de Teatru-Bucureșt FNT ediția a 27-a
The National Theater Festival will be held from 20 October to 30 October 2017.
Romanian theater: from FNT - on major European scenes
It is a great pleasure to welcome the success achieved by the Hungarian State Theater Cluj, for the first time at the Almagro Classic International Theater Festival (FITCA), Spain, with William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", directed by Silviu Purcarete.
The artistic director of the Festival is theater critic Marina Constantinescu.
HAMLET|COLLAGE text of William Shakespeare
Directed by: Robert Lepage
This is the first Russian production of the legendary Canadian theater director Robert Lepage.
The preparations lasted for more than two years, and the result is a hi-tech show for a single actor and over twenty members of the team, from technicians to plateau directors, electricians, props, sound and image engineers.
All the actions of the play take place in Hamlet's imagination, and the character is revealed to the audience in his room from an asylum of mental illness.
Robert Lepage and Evgeny Mironov managed to create a large-scale tragedy of the mind that turned out to be more disturbing than the real-life tragedy.
"Hamlet's main problem is that he thinks too much." His character uses his brain all the time. "The skull is a powerful symbol of Hamlet's theater and theater, and Shakespeare created the important scene of the skull, which is, after all, human, is the head of a man. "
Cafeneaua Pirandello (Pirandello Café ) works by Luigi Pirandello
Dramatic script by Anca Măniuţiu - Artistic director by Mihai Măniuţiu
We challenge Bucharest to give up for a moment to any trace of pragmatism and to be seduced by the spectral aroma of the Pirandelian café.
A hallucinatory world, where the boundary between reality and dream is fragile, will open up and absorb every fantasy in its fantastic dimensions.
As soon as they cross the threshold of the theater, they will become customers of a deserted night coffee, located somewhere near a train station, where no rational law will find its coherence.
Don Juan
Adaptation text of Molière - Translation by Alexandru Kiriţescu
A spectacle by which the great seducer of Sevilla, Don Juan, returns to the stage of the Comedy Theater almost 40 years after the assembling of Valeriu Moisescu, this time in a newly made straw, as ours, by Andrei and Andreea Grosu, reviewing conquest techniques and making new victims among spectators ...
Procesul ( The Trial ) text of Franz Kafka
Translated by: Gellu Naum - Adapted by: Mihaela Panainte and Daniel Ilea
Kafta’s The Trial is like a dream. Despite the sombre image we tend to associate to him, Kafta was a dreamer, and his works carry that dream substance in them, from their structure to the strangeness of the images, sounds, ideas and emotions that they convey.
His writings imitate at an almost absurd level the irrational and scary madness of this nocturnal universe in movement that we call “dream”.
Macbeth tex of William Shakespeare
Translation: Horia Garbea - Dramaturgy: Daniel Pribyl
Perhaps the most famous piece written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth portrays the fresco of the rise and fall of a general brave who, though victorious on the battlefield, is finally overwhelmed by the thirst for power.
Karamazovii (The Karamazovs) by Horia Lovinescu and Dan Micu
After The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Adapted by: Nona Ciobanu
The five Karamazovs, three legitimate sons (Ivan, Dmitri and Alyosha), a paria (Smerdyakov) and the father (Fyodor), a seducing jester, keep an eye on each other.
Eaten by doubt, they seek the Truth, even when their soul is too sullied to welcome it.
Death prowls, guilt spawns monsters, and suffering, crushed and captive between the moving walls of the constantly shape shifting stage, absolves and brings in the Light.
Regele Lear (King Lear) by William Shakespeare
Translated by: Violeta Popa - Stage version: Mașa Dinescu
King Lear is set in the court of an ageing British monarch. Shakespeare probably wrote it in around 1604, sandwiched between two other great tragedies, Othello and Macbeth.
Improvizația de la Versailles sau Casa maimuțelor (The Impromptu of Versailles or The Monkey House) by Molière
Dramaturgy: Sényi Fanni
“This imaginary voyage is evoked, discovered during four acts. Every one of them is a world by itself.
Every season, every act represents a performance by itself. Four plays fused in one.
A circle of human and artistic desire. From death to birth, from birth to death.” (Sényi Fanni)
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
Translated into Hungarian by: László Kúnos - Adapted by: Andriy Zholdak
“Nobody can escape from their own sins.
Our actions are lurking from behind the door, are hidden in the ashes of the fire-place, they look back at us from our own reflection in the window.
We may talk or stay quiet, the awareness of our sins hangs on us as a soaked jacket.
How could we encounter each other without sensing a constant smell of mold? We attempt to open the windows and air out all that draws us back. We mop the floors, burn the anticipation.
We shout in order to chase away benevolent and evil spirits.
We run until we are out of breath, out of thought. Then we carry our mate – the person we love – just like a sack, in order to absolve them as well…”
O femeie singură (A Woman Alone ) by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Translated and adapted by: Andreea Bibiri and Daniel Grigore-Simion
A woman, prisoner of her own life. Her life, a construction made up of people, preoccupations, of unnecessary, foreign and aggressive objects.
The change seems frightening. Seemingly impossible. Will she find her courage to escape? What will save her?
Romeo şi Julieta de Serghei Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet ) by Serghei Prokofiev, based on William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj - Set Design: Enki Bilal - Costumes: Enki Bilal and Angelin Preljocaj
Bearing the stamp of his Albanian origins and culture, Angelin Preljocaj chose to set this universal love story in the totalitarian regime of an East European country.
It is not a question of a fight between clans as tradition would have it, but of a confrontation between the militia responsible for keeping social order and the “family” of the homeless.
Deșteptarea primăverii ( The spring awakening ) by Frank Wedekind
Translation: Victor Scoradeţ - Adaptation: Vlad Cristache
Young people dream of an artificial paradise that opposes the adult universe, revolts against hypocrisy and false values in the absence of higher goals or a dream to turn to.
The author, however, characterized his text as a "bright reflection" of life, in which I sought to give to each scene all her humor, which could be obtained.
Deșteptarea primăverii (Spring Awakening )by Frank Wedekind
Directed by: Charles Muller
Înaintea Erei Noastre (Before Our Era ) by Daniel Chirilă
Before Our Era is a performance about each of us and about how we got to be here.
Stuck in between “communism” and “democracy”, in the permanent and endless transition from us to “the others”, in a ceaseless run after today’s food and the so-called (yet certain) yesterday’s pay.
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Dramaturgy: Adrian Nicolae - Translated by: Adrian Solomon Stage direction:Victor Ioan Frunză
When the curtain rises, Vienna’s streets vibrate with whispers.
It is rumoured that, driven by envy, the now elderly composer Antonio Salieri killed the famous Mozart thirty two years ago.
We set upon a journey, guided by Salieri himself, through the dark corners of his memory, witnessing all the episodes of his relationship with Mozart.
As a child, Salieri made a deal with God.
He asked to be a famous composer, in return pledging his entire creation to the celestial glory. As he becomes the court composer of the Habsburg Empire, he makes the acquaintance of Mozart, and thus his convenient existence starts to fall apart.
How can a music of unearthly beauty, proof of the divine genius, “the voice of God”, as Salieri calls it, be brought into this world by such a petty, vicious creature?
And above all, how could God betray him like that, when he dedicated all his life and career to His glory?
Full of envy and devoured by his own mediocrity, Salieri pretends to be Mozart’s friend, determined to destroy him.
A perfidious game, at the end of which both men fall. Mozart dies in misery, sickness and vice, while Salieri is doomed to live and witness how his rival’s music stands the test of time.
O intervenție (An Intervention ) by Mike Bartlett
Directed by: Radu Iacoban
What is friendship?
Is it when two people meet several times and talk to each other?
Is it intimacy shared by two people?
Should I feel different if I have friends?
More responsible maybe, happier, more accomplished?
How many true friends do I have?
Do I still know what friendship is? A friend or a mate, a fellow or what exactly?
Artists Talk by Gianina Cărbunariu
ARTISTS TALK – a performance created to connect the artistic discourse to the public it addresses.
Tinereţe fără bătrâneţe şi viaţă fără de moarte ( Youth Without Age and Life Without Death )
Script by Victor Ioan Frunză, after a homonymous tale by Petre Ispirescu Dramaturgy: Adrian Nicolae
In the old days, when the Earth seemed to be closer to the sky, Prince Charming, the Tear-Begotten is born.
He grows up, nurtured by his parents’ love, and when he is ready, he leaves for a voyage, looking for the gift he was promised at his birth – immortality and eternal youth.
He discovers a world in which Death is pacing carefully among the living, together with his loyal magical horse, he succeeds in defeating the enemies he meets on the way: the Forest Hag, the Shadows Hag and the Hunter.
He meets his love, Ileana Consânzeana, but he prays that she waits for him – his journey is about to continue in a place that has its own rules, and where he is finally about to find life without death.
But this does not come alone, it also brings forgetting, and the hero risks losing himself.
Iubirea la oameni (Love of People) by Dmitri Bogoslavski
Translated by: Raluca Rădulescu
The story in Love of People focuses on the lives of three characters, bound with a thread that only death can break.
Luska is married to Kolya, a violent man and an alcoholic, while Sergey, the village policeman, who has been in love with Luska for many years, tries to win back his lost love, when he finds out that Luska’s husband has disappeared.
It is an environment where people are more often than not brutalized, the men are violent and the women – their silent victims.
But behind the appearance of the ordinary, unsuspected dramas unravel.
București. Instalație umană - (Bucharest. Human Installation)
Coordinated by Radu-Alexandru Nica after a concept by Florin Fieroiu Dramaturgy: Ada Lupu, Florin Fieroiu, Radu-Alexandru Nica
Bucharest represents us all.
It is just the way we care for it, the way we build it and we allow it to develop.
It is the city where we study, we work, and we live.
The place that we love or hate, which drives us crazy or makes us burst out laughing.
Fecioarele noastre grabnic ajutătoare
(Our Ladies of perpetual Succour) by Lee Hall
After the novel The Sopranos by Alan Warner - Translation and Adaptation: Carmen Stanciu
"We are in front of a special show of a special text, hard to fit: it is both musical and incisive contemporary text, it is the parable of life and death and it's a show-concert. In short, it's a theater show ... "
Pasărea retro se lovește de bloc și cade pe asfaltul fierbinte
(Retro Bird Hits the Appartment Block and Falls on the Hot Asphalt ) by Radu Afrim
Translated by: Sándor László
Today, we call everything ‘retro’ when we talk about what people in the 70s used to live in their everyday lives, in their blocks of flats, the emblematic but still functional achievement of the passed socialist epoch.
Rambuku by Jon Fosse
Translated by: Daria Ioan - Adapted by: Anca Măniuțiu
Lying at the meeting point between words and silence, between movement and absolute stillness, there is always a love story.
For love alone can bring hope, however distant salvation may appear.
O mie de motive (Every Brilliant Thing) by Duncan Macmillan
Cast: Florin Piersic - Directed by: Horia Suru
“Every Brilliant Thing unfolds the story of a man living different milestones in his life, chasing for the beauty that hides inside all human beings and surroundings.
All in an attempt to better understand who he is and to grasp the meaning of this world!” (Horia Suru)
Scrisori de dragoste (Love Letters) by A. R. Gurney
Translated by: Peter Bokor - Adapted by: Mircea Cornișteanu
“Touching and full of humour at the same time, the epistolary novel written by the American author has been interpreted by famous couples of actors, mainly film actors, who wanted to prove their skill on stage.
It was not with that reason in mind that Mariana Mihuţ and Victor Rebengiuc accepted my proposal, because they have long proved their talent both in theatre and in film.
They simply joined me because they love telling a love story, which has turned out ever more beautiful thanks to their talent.”
(Mircea Cornișteanu)
N-ai tu treabă! (None of Your Business! ) by Cătălin Ștefănescu
After Dănilă Prepeleac by Ion Creangă
Directing, Set Design and Light Design: Alexandru Dabija
“Many people have fascinating stories about their spectacular change in social condition, starting from a low status and reaching a high one, to the delight of the crowd hoping for the winning lottery ticket.
For reasons that only he knows, most probably because of his imminent death, Dănilă does a favour to his friends and the world in general, and accepts to talk about HOW he got from poor and the village fool to his present wealth.”
(Alexandru Dabija)
Rug, după un roman (Bonfire, after a novel )
Translated by: Elize Wilk - Dramatisation: Armin Petras
Romania, 1989-90: two months after the fall of Ceauşescu’s regime, the remnants of the communist regime are burning at stake.
Emma, a 13-year-old orphan girl, is taken out of boarding school by a mysterious stranger who claims to be her grandmother; from now on the girl is to live with her.
În adâncuri (The Lower Depths ) by Maxim Gorki
Translated into Hungarian by: Annamária Radnai - Dramaturgy: András Visky
“The Lower Depths paints the world at the limit of disappearance, at the limit of collapse.
The characters are people who have no home, no families, no money, no means for existence, no jobs, no hope for the future, they are at the very end of the limit.
They live in a world where God almost doesn’t exist.
So we ask ourselves, how far can humanity go before it ceases to exist?”
(Yuri Kordonsky)
Iarna (Winter ) by Jon Fosse
Translated by: Carmen Vioreanu - Adapted by: Anca Măniuţiu
“Winter, the play by Jon Fosse, is a strange and mysterious love story written by a playwright whose text seems to feed itself from that ethereal writing style illustrated and theorized by Maurice Maeterlinck as “the tragical in daily life”….”
Prințul nefericit (The Double Inconstancy ) by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Translated by: Sabrina Iașchevici - Adapted by: Sânziana Stoican
The text is a comedy in three acts built on the principles of the Commedia dell’arte, with Arlechino and Trivelin, essential characters of this type of theatrical improvisation, and a surprisingly modern structure for the time when it was written (the end of the 18th century).
It was first put on stage in 1723, by Italian comedians, at the famous Theatre of “Hôtel de Bourgogne” in Paris.
Just like other comedies by Marivaux, such as The Game of Love and Chance, Slave Island, The Triumph of Love, The False Servant and The Double Inconsistency, many of the characters around which the story is built belong to the Commedia dell’arte, with scenes solved in a comical note by the famous Arlechino, unsuspected drama, unspoken love, hallucinating secrets, unequalled betrayal and unprecedented conflicts.
All good comedies have good endings.
Will the prince eventually find the true love of his dreams?
Will Arlechino end up inconsolable or will there be two wedding in the end?!
Rocky Horror Show by Richard O`Brian
Translated by: Ștefan Peca
Janet and Brad – a newly engaged couple – are on their way to visit their professor, Dr. Everett Scott.
It is a rainy night, the two get lost and additionally, their car has a flat tire.
While trying to find a phone, they arrive at a castle and here things become more and more eerie.
The couple enters the world of doctor Frank N. Further, an alien from the Planet Transsexual in the Transylvania Galaxy.
In a hedonistic universe, doctor Frank seduces his new guests.
The young couple is invited to witness the insane doctor’s new creation: the ideal man, the perfect man, named Rocky Horror.
Măcelaria lui Iov (Job’s Butcher Shop ) by Fausto Paravidino
Translated by: Cristian Ungureanu
The social theme is represented by the producer’s relation with the banks, the suppliers and the usurers.
Job’s Butcher’s Shop is a politically moderate play built around a love story. Everything talks about brittleness.
The haunting image is the dolphin. And meat. And money.
The empire built from banknotes is extremely fragile.
In Job’s Book the prosperity became converted in a disaster.
Umbre (Shadows ) by Marilia Samper
Translated by: Florin Galiș and Iunia Mircescu
Three families marked by loss: a married couple which falls apart after the disappearance of their adolescent daughter; a father and son unable to communicate because of the absence of the mother; an elderly couple whose happiness is threatened by the thought of losing one another.
Wracked by pain, anguish, and uncertainty, they confront as best they can their particular tragedy, but little by little their lives will intersect until they blend into the same story, like in a puzzle: that of Alba, lost in the thickness of the forest, and her own journey through pain and into salvation.
Camera mea frigorifică (My Cold Room ) by Joël Pommerat
Translated by: Forgách András
Following its Paris premiere in 2011 and several performances in Canada, the United States and Europe, Ma chambre froide by contemporary French playwright and director Joël Pommerat received the Molière Prize as well as the yearly French Critics’ Prize.
The play is put to the stage of Szigligeti Theatre by director Theodor Cristian Popescu, at his second collaboration with the company in Oradea after several works in European and American theatres.
The LEVINTZA Theatre Costume Gallery
Doina Levintza is one of the most important set and costume designers in Romania, with a long experience behind her, proof of her talent and extraordinary passion.
Her career graciously combines theatre, film and television set and costume design, and reveals the creative power of an artist capable of proposing novel solutions for any type of space and character.
