Conferences

The National Theatre of Bucharest and the French Institute invite you to the conference Personal Paris - Places and Theatres held by George Banu on Sunday, 6^th April 2014, at 11 a.m., at the Small Hall of NTB. Tickets price is 16 lei.

About the conference
 

George Banu arrived in Paris on the last day of the year 1973. While spending 40 long years in the capital of France he created a Personal Paris for himself, a city he bears in his heart and he now reveals its private map. The map allows us to discover hidden places, personal spaces, visit theatres and secret squares. Cioran's street and Peter Brook's Hall, the court of a palace, which is very dear to Oana Pellea and the house near the river Seine whose front side has Camille Claudel's words engraved on it: "There is always something missing." The places and the theatres, reunited, are landmarks in this urban autobiography, that both George Banu and his friend Mihaela Marin reveal through her photos of "his" Paris, photographs  she took with talent and affection. During George Banu's conference, the audience will be shown images of his personal path created along 40 years. The actor Marius Manole will read excerpts from  Banu's book, Personal Paris. The launch of the book will take place in the same day and the book will be published by Nemira Publishing House. There will also be a signing session. It is a book about the life of an emigrant who became a French citizen, but he never forgot where he came from.

About George Banu

He  teaches  at Sorbonne University in Paris as well as at other universities, he is the Honorary President of the International Association of Theatre Critics and President of the Europe Theatre Award Gala. George Banu has recently been elected Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy. He is also Senior-editor in chief of the well-known magazine Alternatives théâtrales and Managing Editor at Actes Sud Publishing House. He published an important number of famous volumes on the modern theatre world and its main characters, Peter Brook, Patrice Chéreau and Luc Bondy. Among his latest books released in romanian are The Cherry Orchad, Our Theatre, Shakespeare, The World As A Theatre, The Changes in Theatre, all published by Nemira Publishing House, Loving and Hating Theatre published by Polirom Publishing House and Close to the Stage, published by Curtea Veche Publishing House.

George Banu has been awarded honorary degrees by many universities. He has also received the UNITER prize for Theatre Critique. NTB, The Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj and  the Art Museum Of Cluj-Napoca have recently organized a series of events in his honour in Cluj. The
University of Sorbonne dedicated the book The Travels or the Horizons of Theatre to
George Banu. The book has been published and translated into romanian by Nemira
Publishing House. Peter Brook, Andrei Șerban, Eugenio Barba, Radu Penciulescu and Niky Wolcz signed the book.

Translated by: Diana Apetroaei

MTTLC, University of Bucharest