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Matei Vişniec and Alexandru Dabija to Open the Series of 2016 Premieres at NTB
Stormy beginning of the year at the Bucharest National Theatre: 5 premieres and two recently released performances, conferences, exhibitions, contemporary, Romanian and international theatre, well-known director names, shows for all ages – with actors from all generations and, especially, a plethora of very young actors. Unconventional and para-theatrical projects encounter, at the beginning of 2016 as well, the traditional theatre, of classical origin and top acting and directing creations.
The first premiere of the year shall take place on the stage of the Studio Hall, with Matei Vişniec’s play, Requiem, a parable filled with wit and irony. Or, more precisely, as the author himself estimates, "Requiem is ... a roar of laughter and crying, because the history of human suffering is tightly interwoven with the absurd, the grotesque and even with stupidity".
Alexandru Dabija, the director of the show, stages a formidable parable on life and death, triggered by the horrors of war, with the afterworld populated by people who died for their homeland, heroes or unworthy dead, but all scarred by the same life wounds...
A cast with over 20 actors, most of them very young, next to big names of the Bucharest National Theatre: Marius Rizea, Gavril Pătru, Ioan Andrei Ionescu, Afrodita Androne, Mihai Calotă.
Matei Vişniec also opens the series of 2016 conferences at NTB on Sunday, January 17, 11.00 a.m., at the Black Box Hall, with the topic Theatre and Journalism.
The Painting Hall shall host, in the period ahead, the premiere The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, after a novel by Mark Haddon, adaptation by Simon Stephens. The direction by Bobi Pricop and scenography by Adrian Damian, joined by the costumes of Liliana Cenean, the music by Alexei Turcan and the video projections arranged by Dan Adrian Ionescu and Răzvan Mizdran envelop the story in a modern scenic atmosphere, with an ingenious stagecraft. A sensitive and captivating performance on lost innocence, alienation, communication boundaries, contemporary neuroses and people lost for words, in which the characters (in the author’s order) shall be interpreted by: Ciprian Nicula, Emilian Oprea, Carmen Ungureanu, Ana Ciontea, Rodica Ionescu.
The Black Box Hall shall host the premiere of the show Clay (Klei, 2002), the best known text of Dutch author Marijke Schermer, who has written over 10 plays and two novels, distinguished in 2009 with the „Charlotte Kohler” Literature Award. A drama loaded with Nordic melancholies, crushed loves and lost ideals. A play about the painful separation from the past, with elaborate characters, powerful conflicts and an unexpected, brutal outcome, which paradoxically brings peace. A remarkable cast, with Irina Movilă in the spotlight, joined by Mircea Rusu, Claudiu Istodor, Natalia Călin and Cristina Constantinescu. And, at his first encounter with the Bucharest National Theatre, director Vlad Massaci, in an artistic tandem with scenographer Andu Dumitrescu.
Further two premieres shall take place in the Small Hall, where The 9G Programme at NTB continues this season with the Placebo (D)Effect, an artistic project coordinated by Ștefan Lupu, and Beckett Coupe directed by Dragoş Alexandru Muşoiu. In spring, the selection notice for the third edition of the programme shall be launched.
Within the framework of cultural exchanges, this year the tour Romanian Theatre in Bucharest and Kishinev, started with tremendous success in 2014, is bringing in the period ahead, in Bucharest, two shows of the Kishinev National Theatre: The House on the Border by Slawomir Mrozek, scheduled for January 20, 8.00 p.m. and Filumena Marturano or Divorce Italian-Style by Eduardo de Filippo, January 21, 8.00 p.m., both on the stage of the Studio Hall.
Among the most recent NTB openings, staged in the Grand Hall, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, directed by Petrică Ionescu, already had its first encounter with the audience this year, and the concert-show directed by Ion Caramitru, Magic National, which got standing ovation at the end of December, makes a comeback – on January 17 and 23, as of 7.00 p.m.
We are expecting you at the Bucharest National Theatre!
Translated by Simona Nichițeanu
