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Tobelia, a multi-award-winning NETA coproduction, arrives in Bucharest on August 31!
The highly-successful NETA coproduction Tobelia, a play about a woman who loved excessively, is scheduled for a single representation in Bucharest on August 31 2015 at 18:00, in the “Painting” Hall of the National Theatre, within the 2015 NETA International Theatre Festival. The play was written by Montenegrin Liubomir Giurkovici, one of the most prominent writers from his country, and has won the “Best Play” award in the “Actor of Europe” Festival, organized in Macedonia. In Romania, “Tobelia” was brought by Slovenian Nick Upper, renowned actor and director, while the play premiered in Bulgaria in 2014.
Nick Upper, recognized throughout former Yugoslavia as a pioneer of theatrical postmodernism and alternative theatre, is a performer in search of interpretative and directing art, and a restless explorer of borderline territories in his art.
The play is a modern drama of a damned family, which forever lost its masculine presence, developed over an ancient Albanian and Montenegrin custom named Tobelia, and which can still be found in nowadays families without male heirs. The play calls for the reenactment of a myth in the urban environment through an exceptional artistic accomplishment, and is dedicated to Berthold Brecht and Dimitar Gocev. Rewarding their marvelous acting performance, Joana Popovska (Macedonia), Rositza Ognjanova and Kamelia Lishkovska (Bulgaria) received the “Best Acting” award in the 2014 edition of the NETA International Theatre Festival, while Nick Upper was awarded with the “Best Director” during the same event, organised in Vratsa.
Tobelia, a NETA co-production (Bulgaria-Macedonia-Slovakia) that received five extraordinary awards, arrives in Bucharest on 31 august 2015.
The NETA International Theatre Festival 2015 (August 28 – September 4) is organized by the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest (initiator and organiser), NETA Network (New European Theatre Action), and UNITER (co-organiser), financed by the Government of Romania through the Ministry of Culture and with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) and that of the Cultural Centre of Bucharest Municipality (ARCUB).
