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Extraordinary Life - 9G at TNB Premiere
A new show created by young artists premieres in the 9G at NTB programme. Launched in 2014 and now in its seventh edition, 9G offers independent artists the support to make their productions at the Small Hall of the National Theatre, a space dedicated exclusively to this endeavour.
The show proposed by the director Teodora Petre, Extraordinary Life by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, is a story told with honesty, full of candour and emotion, exposed in touches of truth and sensitivity. Two lives, two stories that complement each other from confessions, intertwine the fragile face of femininity in a world frozen in concepts of feminism. A vivid picture, built from attention to detail, shadows and lights, completes in the concept of scenographer Ioana Pashca this tempting world through truth and genuine emotions. Actresses Aida Economu and Mihaela Velicu dive into time, relive the ages, compose and decompose the states and events of life.
In Extraordinary Life, we travel through Argentina to Evita Perón, somewhere far away, at the end of the world, in a seaside village, where two girls discover at the age of 5 that if they watch the moon holding hands together, they become the witnesses of the greatest miracle. The miracle of life.
Moving forward through disappointments, passions and joys, they confess their lives in letters, in which you feel the rhythm of clockwork and the heartbeat. On the road to maturity, literature becomes an ally of survival, not just a way of expression, but a therapeutic way of existing.
"I firmly believe that we humans are not made to live alone. We are made to share the miracle of life with those around us. I am you; you are me. The encounter between Aurora and Blanca allows them to soar into the world. To suffer and rejoice knowing that there is always a witness who can help them find their way home, to their village and their world in Ushuaia, a place of recovery and hope after each lost battle, but also of the road to each other.” Teodora Petre, director
Argentine playwright and director, Mariano Tenconi Blanco (b. 1982) is the author of 10 plays. Winner of several awards, including: Prize for New Dramaturgy awarded by the Argentine Ministry of Culture (2015, for Everything would make sense if death did not exist), Teatro del Mundo Award for I want to tell you that I love you and La Fiera, Hugo Award for Best Play and Best Director for La Fiera.
Extraordinary Life (La vida extraordinaria) is now staged for the first time in Romania. The world premiere took place in 2018, at the “Cervantes” National Theatreof Argentina, directed by the author. The play is the winner of the National Dramaturgy Contest (National Theater Institute, Argentina).
Premiere: November 18, 19, 20, 2021, 7:00 p.m., NTB Small Hall
Translated by Simona nichiteanu
