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Alexander Morfov returns to the National Theater of Bucharest with a new challenge: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare, a new premiere of the NTB "I.L.Caragiale", is ready to meet the public for the first time, on Sunday, April 27th, 2014, at 19:30, on the Studio Stage.
A romantic play, written in 1611, the comedy The Tempest is a real challenge for all theater makers, and it was rarely presented, usually by famous personalities. For the Bulgarian director, Alexander Morfov, the meeting with this play was from the beginning a success- 1996, the premiere at the National Theatre from Sofia, and four years later he also earned the recognition at St. Petersburg, where the performance at the theatre "V. F. Komissarjevskaia" was awarded with the prestigious "Golden Mask".
We will see soon the version for the Romanian stage, at the Studio Hall, in an Elizabethan theater - style formula, the setting being designed by the director's co-operator, the Bulgarian Nikola Toromanov ( the UNITER Award in 2012, for the scenography of the play " The Visit").
Alexander Morfov is one of the most acclaimed directors of the Bulgarian contemporary scene, prizeman in his native country and abroad, with performances seen across the world (Vienna, Casablanca, Kiev, Torun (Poland), Belgrade (BITEF), Hamburg, Moscow - NET, "Golden Mask", Utrecht etc). In Romania he is well known by the public due to his previous achievements at the National Theater from Bucharest, "The Visit" (nominated at the UNITER Awards for " The Best Performance") and also with the two successful performances played in the tournament, on the same stage: "Exiles" by Ivan Vazov and "Don Juan" by Moliere.
Included in the group of romantic plays and considered one of the last masterpieces of the great English writer, The Tempest is a story of usurpation and exile, but also about forgiveness after a mystic fight, with "weapons" of white magic, in a world of contrasts, which gathers together all the telluric and seraphic forces, the good and the bad, the concreteness of life and the illusory mash of the dream.
Being a romantic character, and one of the most sophisticated in the Shakespearean dramaturgy, Prospero will be represented for you by Ion Caramitru, who for the third time plays a Shakespearean role on the stage of NTB, after Edward III (2008) and Macbeth (2011). After more than three decades, it is also a return to the performance in which he played Ferdinand, directed by the master Liviu Ciulei and his partner, Mariana Mihut, who played Miranda.
In the current mounting, this female role is held by the young and talented Crina Semciuc, who was recently accepted in the NTB band. In distribution you will also see some other popular names, like Mihai Călin, Andrei Finţi, Gavril Pătru, Ioan Andrei Ionescu, Mihai Calotă, Vitalie Bichir, Marcelo S. Cobzariu, Axel Moustache, Eduard Adam, Istvan Teglaş, Alexandru Călin, Eduard Cârlan, Mădălin Mandin, Idris Clate, Ionuţ Toader, Alexandra Poiană. The creative team of the show was joined by Andrada Chiriac - costumes, Chris Jaeger - Lighting design, Florin Fieroiu - choreography.
The next performances will take place on Wednesday, May 7 and on Thursday, May 8, at 19.30. We are waiting for you at a unique and exciting version of the play The Tempest!
Translated into English by: Lucia Prohnițchi
MTTLC, University of Bucharest
