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A play that promises to shudder our souls, Helver’s Night by Ingmar Vilkvist, Polish author staged throughout Europe and in Sankt Petersburg at the Academic Theatre for Drama "V.F.Komissarjevskaia", and directed by Aleksandr Bargman, presented numerous times with the most prestigious theatre award in Sankt Petersburg, “The Gold Soffit”, the national award “The Gold Mask”, and numerous other remarkable prizes, will represent Russia in the 2015 NETA International Theatre Festival organised at the National Theatre of Bucharest between August 28 and September 4^th.

Although the play has the structure of a manifesto and tempts transformation into a political show, the director’s view focused on the human side, on the love for the one in danger. A story “in two”. Not just for one night, but for a lifetime in a single room under savage assault from the violence outside in difficult and uncomfortable show. Just as the truth is. “And it is this truth that will affect the spectator, I think,” says Aleksandr Bargman. “I am certain that this play is about ‘light’: you should miss beloved eyes and hands, warmth, silence, the lack of bright light, your favourite music, silence…”

Constructed as theatrical dance and evoking the 1930s by reinvigorating certain dark feelings which expose the feeble and unlisted to the wickedness of time, “Helver’s Night” is a remarkably current show. Boorishness and greed are in power! Manipulation, lie, hypocrisy, hate, and aggressiveness to extermination stubbornly hold the top positions in a society relying on overturned values.

The fashionable, lazy, and relaxed audience here seems to have been shaken by Bargman with a painful shock awaking interest for the most acute issues of our reality, publishes the “Peterburgskii teatralinii jurnal”.

From the 2013 prestigious “Gold Soffit” to the general sense of appreciation, endorsed by the “Sympathy Award of the Public” received by the director and two actors – Denis Pianîi and Oksana Bazilevici, in the same year from the “Teatral” society, “Helver’s Night” is recognized as an outstanding artistic accomplishment validated by critics and the success it has anywhere is shows.

The play is scheduled within the 2015 NETA International Theatre Festival in Bucharest on September 3^rd in the Black Box Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest with a single show. The availability is limited.