Conferences
Andrei Șerban: About Chekhov or Who else wants to go to Moscow?
Sunday, the 30th of January, 11:00 o'clock, at the Black Box of the National Theatre, Andrei Şerban will hold a conference named About Chekhov or Who else wants to go to Moscow?. The tickets were put up for sale at the price of 23 and 10 lei.
About the conference
Through his characters, Chekhov shows us that we, people, are so obsessed of what we would like to be in an ideal manner, so concerned about the future, an illusive future, that we ignore what we are and where we are in the present.
Or we design everything in the past, intent upon an idealistic image, sweetened, sentimentalist, of what we once were - a different way of escaping the present and the fear of seeing ourselves just as we are.
"To Moscow, to Moscow..." repeat the three sisters obsessively, life would be perfect there...
Andrei Şerban - biography
In his full international career in theatre and opera in the most important cultural centers from America and Europe, Andrei Şerban accepted to come back home, asked by Ion Caramitru and Andrei Pleşu right after December '89, and he took over the National Theatre board, "hoping to change the old and bony mentality of this institution, to bring it back to life.
The Greek Trilogy was the oxygen dose needed to restore an agonizing mechanism. Then, 4 other spectacles followed - attempts to create a flexible climate, open towards the new and the unknown, but after three years he was bound to give up, for causes which do not deserve any commentaries".
Şerban is tenured professor and the artistic director of Hammerstein Center for Theater Studies at Columbia University in New York. He received many awards and distinctions: Tony Award, Drama Desk and Obie Awards, George Abbott Award for his career in the American theatre, Eliott Norton and Robert Brustein Awards for his spectacles in Boston, the Romanian Star, many Uniter awards, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj, and during this year, five nominations at the prestigious Golden Mask in Moscow, among others.
His book, "A Biography", published by Polirom in 2006, was reprinted. Two photographic volumes, published by ICR, follow his career in images from his theatre and opera performances.
