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Titanic Orchestra – in the Limelight, the First Premiere of 2018 at NTB!
On Saturday 13th January and Sunday 14th January 2018, the Painting Hall shall host, in preview, the first shows with Orchestra Titanic by Hristo Boicev, directed by Felix Alexa and stage set by Andrada Chiriac, the first premiere of the year 2018 at the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest.
With this show, NTB continues the concern with the Balkan area, a space so special and dramatically generous, and the director, fine observer of this space invites us, in an exceptional company – the cast giving life on stage, to a story at the border between real and dreamlike.
Claudiu Bleonţ, Mihai Constantin, Mihai Călin, Richard Bovnoczki and Tania Popa invite you to an encounter with a play which has enjoyed 30 enactments worldwide. Titanic Orchestra is a philosophical and absurd comedy on the desire to escape into illusion.
Felix Alexa creates a universe of a magical realism, also enhanced by the stage set of Andrada Chiriac.
"In Titanic Orchestra, four characters in a deserted and destroyed railroad, an image of solitude and failure of each of them, are endlessly rehearsing the possible scenario of deliverance from this pointless existence. They are, actually, rehearsing their own short play, with a predictable ending, entering an illusion which they fuel by „acting”.
A „theatre” seen as a possible salvation from the monotony of a failed life, a „theatre” which can give them, even for a short time, the illusion of deliverance.
Boicev’s irony becomes however stronger with Harry’s appearance, a magician bringing them the perspective of salvation through an even greater illusion than theatre, a supreme illusion, representing their passage into another dimension, where everything becomes possible.
My show speaks about theatre and life, about how we can save ourselves, at least partially, from a frustrating and dull existence, hoping for another dimension created through illusion. An illusion which each of us creates in his intimacy, as a rescuing alternative.
And what else is theatre but not an illusion which may sometimes become more real and more intense than reality itself?" states Felix Alexa.
Hristo Boicev, the most well-known and enacted Bulgarian playwright, was declared playwright of the year 1989, with 40 enactments throughout Bulgaria, and nowadays he is the most staged author in 40 countries on five continents, multi-awarded in his country and abroad. His most famous plays comprise Bird Colonel (for a female cast, the title is The Colonel and His Birds), Orchestra Titanic, The District Hospital (enacted, in Romania, by Felix Alexa, at the Metropolis Theatre), the monodrama Phenomenon, Underground, That Thing, The Invasion etc. He adapted for the stage the novels Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The official premiere shall take place in the author’s presence and is scheduled for 16th and 17th January 2018, from 8.00 p.m., at the Painting Hall.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu