Workshops

Establishing the character through make-up From May 13 to 15, 2024, within the "Ion Sava" Centre for Theatre Research and Creation, Minela Popa will hold a Theatre Make-up Workshop. The working hours will be daily from 11:00 - 13:30 and 14:00 - 16:00 Minela Popa is a make-up artist of reference for the Romanian stage, with extensive experience in theatre and film. Working with world's great directors, from Silviu Purcarete to Robert Wilson, Minela Popa's art has visually enriched important performances and accompanied various aesthetics. Minela Popa has a long activity at the "Marin Sorescu" National Theatre in Craiova and is an academic in the Department of Arts - Theatre and Music of the Faculty of Literature in Craiova. The workshop is addressed to set design, directing and acting graduates, as well as to students in their third year of Bachelor's or Master's degree. A maximum of 20 people can participate. Selection of participants will be based on a CV sent to centrulsavatnb@gmail.com by May 10, 2024 at 12:00.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

From April 11 to 14, 2024, within the Centre for Theatre Research and Creation "Ion Sava" of NTB, will take place a Theatre Workshop with the topic Plato and Shakespeare - are there limits to interpretation?, held by PhD. Catalin Partenie. The texts addressed will be Plato's Allegory of the Cave from the Republic and Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Catalin Partenie will also base his approach to Shakespearean text on Emma Smith's recent work This is Shakespeare. Catalin Partenie teaches philosophy at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. He studied philosophy at the universities of Bucharest, Oxford, Heidelberg and Glasgow. He has edited several books, including Plato. Selected Myths (Oxford's World Classics), Plato's Myths (Cambridge University Press) and In Fiction We Trust (Polirom). Vizuina de Aur (The Golden Hole), his first novel (Polirom, 2020), received the Traian Olteanu Prize for debut prose awarded by the Iasi Branch of the Romanian Writers' Union and the Liviu Rebreanu Salon Prize at the National Prose Contest. The workshop will be attended by 2 young directors, 4 student/graduate actors and 4 students from the Faculty of Philosophy and the National School of Political and Administrative Studies. The selection of participants will be based on a CV sent to centrulsavatnb@gmail.com by April 8, 2024, 12:00.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu