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A new stage play from the young team of 9G Program held by The National Theater of Bucharest entered the repertory of the theater. The ProDrama Association and the “I. L. Caragiale” National Theater invite you on Wednesday, 5 November 2014, 20:00 hours, to “Buy Nothing Day” by Kim Atle Hansen, directed by Horia Suru, in The Small Hall of the Theater. “Buy Nothing Day” is a fresh show which feels the young generation’s pulse in a brave and witting manner. Loaded with vital messages from the present-day social, political and economical spheres, “Buy Nothing Day” tells us about the change that emerges from every individual. The play makes a call to humor (without drifting into sarcasm), activism (with no suggestion of extremism) and to contemporary, scintillating artistic solutions in terms of sound, set and design. Petra (Ilinca Hărnuț) and Andrei (Rolando Matsangos) want to draw attention over consumerism and the exploitation of Third Word workers. Kati (Cristina Găvruș) and Irina (Olivia Alexandra Niță) want to become stars by singing at a “Save the Planet” event. Toma (Andrei Morariu) and Petru (Emil Măndănac) want to protest to improve the living conditions from the nursing home they work at. Ana (Simona Cuciurianu) wants to be more than just a clothes shop assistant. Their paths meet at the mall. This visit will change their lives. Kim Atle Hansen is a Norwegian play writer, actor and activist, author of several plays about problems of today’s society. He works at Norske Theater, and “Buy Nothing Day” is his most known play, set so far in the UK, Brazil, Italy, The USA and Russia. “This text is destined rather to a performative convention than a type of emotionally motivated game” “A lot of people have protested in the streets the last years. The economical crisis and the austerity measures, Roşia Montană and Raed Arafat have taken to the streets thousands of Romanians, old and young, hipsters and white collars, leftists and rightists. It is essential to understand how important the right to freedom of speech and protest is in a democratic society. I can’t highlight enough this aspect. I think it’s equally important, though, to push people towards information and tolerance. Psychotic derailments such as armed attacks in schools, malls and other public spaces are due to lack of education and unilateral fierceness. I am very pleased to see that, after the first 5 representations at The National Theater, the reactions have been positive and the message of the play reaches the audience.” This is a stage play about young people, social and political implication, naivety and principles. What kind of consequences could such implication have and what risks are we ready to take?                                                                                             Translated by Podaru Gina MTTLC, University of Bucharest 

The DYSTOPIA.shakespeare.REMIX show is about the apocalyptic end of today’s degrading world. Inspired by video games, the show breaks down and mixes together parts from several of Shakespeare’s works, resulting in an original script on power and the various devious ways in which it manifests itself. From a simple, modern, yet 100% Shakespearian, perspective, the show keeps several different forms of manipulation under close scrutiny. DYSTOPIA.shakespeare.REMIX raises simple questions about mankind, its violent nature that continues to grows trying to keep the pace of ‘society’s evolution’, about the different ways to manipulate and brainwash others, the dehumanization of everyday life that is desperately trying to compete with its virtual world counterparts. 9G at TNB is a project in partnership with the Researching and Theatrical Creation Center ‘Ion Sava’ and it is aimed at young theatre developers. The 9G project takes place at the Small Hall, a space designed exclusively for young artists. At the end of the project auditioning stage, where 42 plays were submitted, the jury (composed of Ilinca Tomoroveanu, Cristiana Gavrilă, Mașa Dinescu and Violeta Popa) selected seven shows that would advance to the rehearsals’ stage:   Translated by Silvia-Ecaterina Constantinidis MTTLC, University of Bucharest

If we were to define the genre we cannot call it as being a concert, a musical play, a musical improvisation or an acting exercise. It is only a play in which you shall laugh…really, 3 actors and other 20 partners… or musical instruments. The tonight orchestra transforms the concert into a theatre performance, as the backstage actions are more spectacular than the stage performance. Instruments are getting crazy and the artists are a dispersion of sounds. A humourous story, where three characters are fighting for the (constantly) impredictible path of supremacy on stage. A concert in which are stored a cheerful, sonorous and rhythmic story. Are you ready for an hour of musical and theatrical marathon which goes, at the speed of light, from Mozart to rock…and chansonettes? Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for maximum laughter.   Translated by: Gheorghescu Iulia MTTLC, University of Bucharest

Summer starts at NTB with 9G (The New Generation of Creators). The first winning performances at the project contest initiated by The National Theatre of Bucharest, through “Ion Sava" Theatrical Research and Creation Centre, dedicated to independent young people, are coming in the spotlights. On the 20th, 21st and 22nd of June – Dystopia. Shakespeare Remix. A performance about power in all of its forms, a profound analysis, set up in a modern way, 100% Shakespeare. An exposure and a demystification of reality. A show abounding in questions about the human being and his violent nature floating with the stream of continuous “evolution of society”. The weapons are now different, but is the will of power as violently rooted in its profound structure as before? Dystopia. Shakespeare Remix – directed and written by Catinca Drăgănescu; cast: Cristina Drăghici, Oana Popescu, Simona Cuciurianu, Vlad Udrescu, Vladimir Purdel, Crina Ene, George Albert Costea (voice); media: Darie Budeanu; set: Ioana Drăgănescu; costumes and make-up: Sorana Țopa; Save the date: Dystopia. Shakespeare Remix – June20th, 21st, 22nd, 20:00, NTB, Small Hall – free entrance on reservation at the following email address: rezervare.tnb@gmail.com. Limited places available. Reservations can be made starting Tuesday, the 17th of June, at 10:00.   Translated by: Miruna Voican MTTLC, University of Bucharest