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At NTB, October brings three new premieres
At NTB, October brings three new premieres
October brings a new series of performances on the stages of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest, enriching the repertoire of the season with exciting titles, performed by actors of all generations and signed by leading directors.
On October 4, 5, 14 and 19, 2022, the first performances of Lucy Kirkwood's The Welkin, a multi-award-winning British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1983), are scheduled at the Atelier Hall. Directed by Gelu Colceag, the play tells a suspenseful story of a death sentence in 18th century Britain, which the author transforms into a relevant and acute commentary on today's society, prejudice, inequality, discrimination and the struggle for power.
"The Welkin" is a performance that has the energy of a thriller, the tension of a courtroom drama, the irreverent humor of a smart black comedy, and the profound power of vulnerability. With Ștefan Caragiu's set and Liliana Cenean's costumes, the show's 16 characters perform, 13 of whom are played by actresses (!). Real, brave, imperfect, daring and surprising characters who, with humor, emotion and intelligence, overturn preconceptions, prejudices and make us look more closely at others.
Cast: Aylin Cadîr / Alexandra Sălceanu, Tania Popa, Ilinca Goia, Mirela Oprișor, Erika Băieşu, Medeea Marinescu, Raluca Petra / Magda Catone, Ana Ciontea, Rodica Ionescu, Carmen Ungureanu, Brânduşa Mircea, Victoria Dicu, Lamia Beligan, Marius Rizea, Mihai Calotă, Daniel Hara / Mihai Munteniţă, Marcela Mateescu. The sound design by Călin Grigoriu, the scenic dance by Roxana Colceag and the light design by Bogdan Golumbeanu and Laurențiu Iordache also contribute to the performance.
From October 21, 2022, the National Theatre from Bucharest offers you the opportunity to meet again a reference creation, that of Marcel Iureș in Thomas Bernhard's The Theatre Maker, directed by Alexandru Dabija at the Act Theatre in 2001, one of the most enduring post-December stage creations, hailed by critics and audiences alike, awarded at the UNITER Gala in 2002 for best male performance.
At the time of the premiere, the director declared: "I don't think there is a better moment in Romanian art to talk about the actor and I don't think there is a better actor to talk about ANYTHING than the most accomplished Romanian actor of the moment".
Under the baton of the same director, this time in the company of NTB actors, Marcel Iureș returns in the role of Bruscon, and if you have seen the show, you just have to come back and discover any similarities and differences between the two productions, given the strength of Alexandru Dabija's directorial imagination and surprising ability to reinvent himself with each new production.
From October 22, 2022, on the stage of the Pictura Hall, another leading director of the Romanian theatre, Mihai Măniuțiu proposes, in his stage adaptation, a play less known to us, The Just Assassins, written by Albert Camus in 1949 and staged in the same year as an absolute premiere on the stage of the Hébertot Theatre directed by Paul Œttly.
"An unsettling, multi-faceted play that combines in a fascinating alloy: fire and ice, in the same magical rhetoric of the stage. A play about love, about an impossible love. A play about the mystical, poisoned illusions of terrorism. A play about the irretrievable loss of innocence. About sacrifice and violence. About hope and moral catastrophe. About the crime that turns the "righteous" into their own assassins. About beauty and horror. About the way history malforms and shatters destinies. I wouldn't have had the courage to set out on all these forking paths, to finally come together in the most intense and painful center of the labyrinth, where enlightenment is equivalent to tearing apart, if I hadn't been accompanied, dedicated and full of grace, by these wonderful actors and their "flying machines": Marius Manole, Raluca Aprodu, Marius Bodochi, Mirela Oprișor, Maia Morgenstern, Ciprian Nicula. We are looking forward with excitement, but also with confidence, to meeting the audience", says director Mihai Măniuțiu. The set is designed by Adrian Damian and the costumes by Luiza Enescu, two regular collaborators of his recent productions. Music by Mihai Dobre.
The official premiere of the performance is scheduled for October 27, 2022, at 8 pm.
Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu
