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Approximately 3,000 people visited the Queen Mary at the Theatre exhibition, opened with a special program for the Long Night of Museums on 13 May 2023, at the first participation of the National Theatre from Bucharest in this event, now in its 19th edition. Inaugurated on March 27, 2023, on the very same World Theatre Day, the exhibition "Queen Mary at the Theatre" presents 38 cultural objects from the Theatre Museum's collections, including a magnificent dress with a four-meter train, made of silver thread fabric and silk embroidery, which belonged to Queen Mary of Romania. Until almost midnight, the public could admire stage costumes of actors from different generations, documents, posters and photographs. The Minister of Culture, Lucian Romașcanu, was the first to visit the exhibition and gave a symbolic start to the event. "This dress belonging to Queen Mary, restored after so many years, is impressive! I was pleased to visit a special exhibition, both for the objects on display and for the stories behind them. It is a happy coincidence that the presentation of this superb gallery should be on the very day that the Ministry of Culture purchased the intimate green-scaled diary of Queen Mary of Romania. A royal day for Romanian culture!" said Minister Lucian Romașcanu on the occasion. He was followed by almost 3,000 people of all ages, who formed a huge queue at the entrance of the "Ion Caramitru" Hall, in what was NTB's first participation in The Long Night of Museums. The most admired and photographed was certainly Queen Mary's dress, while visitors of younger ages enjoyed the "interactive light tunnel", an installation within the exhibition. "Queen Mary at the Theatre" is the result of a project with a non-reimbursable funding of approximately 130,000 euros, provided by the EEA Grants, implemented by the National Theatre from Bucharest in partnership with the National Art Museum of Romania, the National Military Museum "King Ferdinand I", the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" and the National Library of Romania. The project was funded by EEA Grants 2014-2021 under the RO-CULTURE Program. The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest is one of the public performing arts institutions that owns a heritage made up of documents and unpublished images, vintage photographs, posters, leaflets and programs, manuscripts and letters from personalities from the world of theatre, props and stage costumes, objects with memorial value and art objects such as paintings, sculptures and graphic works, heritage that represent testimonies of the evolution of Romanian drama and scenic art. The National Theatre Museum was opened to the public in 1942, at the initiative of the actor George Franga, with the support and agreement of the director Liviu Rebreanu. The exhibition "Queen Mary at the Theatre" remains open for another five years and can be visited by the general public according to the schedule available on the theatre's website, tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

  The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest announces the premiere of Sarah Ruhl's play The Clean House, a performance by Felix Alexa in which actors Irina Movila, Ana Ciontea, Richard Bovnoczki, Sandra Ducuta, Lamia Beligan embody the characters of the famous American author. The set design is by Stefan Caragiu. The first performances will take place on 13, 14, 17 and 24 (premiere) May 2023, at 8 pm, on the stage of the Pictura Hall. Sarah Ruhl is one of the most performed contemporary American playwrights in the United States. Ruhl has become known for her original voice, which blends poetic language with the absurd and surreal, tackling major themes with amusement and tenderness. After premiering at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2004, The Clean House has been staged in countless theatres across America, winning the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and being a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The Clean House is a kaleidoscopic play, rich in meaning, containing a clever satire of the relationship between the privileged class and poor immigrants, reflections on cleanliness in the home seen as a means of sanitizing the soul or the search for the soul-mate. A performance in which all the elements of life (love, hate, humor, obsession, love, death) are interwoven, The Clean House abounds not only in deeply psychological truths, but also in dark humor and even absurdity. A play with a deeply humanist message about loss and love, success and resignation, but above all a story about compassion. "This play is romantic in a deep sense, but also visionary, with a tinge of fantasy, extravagant in feeling, a little crazy. Ms. Ruhl's voice is an unusual one: cynical but compassionate, sometimes sardonic, sometimes strongly emotional. One of the best and funniest plays you'll see.". New York Times "This funny and tender play contains quirky poetry and insightful wisdom, quirky humor, soap opera elements, operatic arias, whimsy, wit, and a keen sense of romance. And, above all, enormous compassion. A play in which we learn to live with our flaws and those of others, forgetting the futile attempt to smooth out the rough edges and embracing the mess instead."Variety "Rehearsals for The Clean House were a kind of therapy for me, a necessary isolation from "the ugliness and wickedness of the world", as one character in the play says, states the director. With this project I continue the artistic research of the last years of the multiple facets of human fragility, of the frustrations that slowly rumble inside. This valuable contemporary text is a mixture of fact and fiction, an inner world on the edge of dreams, a subtle picture of the breakdown of human relationships, of life. In the grim times we live in, I have chosen to describe with humor and tender understanding, how we are all heading towards a predictable end. "I think heaven is an ocean of jokes. At which everyone laughs", is the final line of this play full of clever humor and sadness. Let's hope maybe that's the case...”. Felix Alexa The next performances, scheduled until the end of the current season, will take place on June 9 and 18, 2023, at 8 pm. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at the theatre's box office and online at tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

On May 13, 2023, the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest joins this year's edition of the event Long Night of Museums, with the exhibition Regia Maria at the Theatre. The exhibition brings to the public's attention 38 cultural objects from the collections of the Theatre Museum, including a train gown made of silver thread fabric and silk embroidery, which belonged to Queen Maria of Romania. Around this precious dress, the public can admire stage costumes of actors from different generations, documents, posters and photographs that either complete the picture of the performances from which the costumes originate or are testimonies to the biographies of the actors. This exhibition has been inaugurated on March 27, 2023, World Theatre Day, as a result of a project with a non-reimbursable funding of about 130.000 euro, provided by EEA Grants, implemented by the National Theatre "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest in partnership with the National Art Museum of Romania, the National Military Museum "King Ferdinand I", the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" and the National Library of Romania. The project was funded by EEA Grants 2014-2021 under the RO-Culture Program. The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest is one of the public performing arts institutions that owns a heritage made up of documents and unpublished images, vintage photographs, posters, leaflets and programs, manuscripts and letters from personalities from the world of theatre, props and stage costumes, objects with memorial value and art objects such as paintings, sculptures and graphic works, heritage that represent testimonies of the evolution of the Romanian dramaturgy and scenic art. The National Theatre Museum was opened to the public in 1942, at the initiative of the actor George Franga, with the support and agreement of the director Liviu Rebreanu. The exhibition can be visited during guided tours from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm, for which prior registration is required at the e-mail address muzeu.tnb@gmail.com Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu   Photo Florin Ghioca         

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest in its first itinerant tour through several cities in the Republic of Moldova A new large-scale cultural project supports the organization of the first tour of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre of Bucharest in the Republic of Moldova. Under the title The Romanian Actors' Tour, this large-scale cultural project is funded by the Department for the Relations with the Republic of Moldova (DRRM) and organized in partnership with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova. The tour will include the presentation of eight productions of the National Theatre of Bucharest in theatres in Chisinau, Cahul and Balti from April to September 2023. The first play presented within the project is Extra and will be performed on April 28, 2023, at 19:00, at the Nameless Theatre from Chisinau. The play, an exceptional one-woman-show by Tania Popa (born in the Republic of Moldova, in Causeni), will bring to the audience the tragi-comic story of Ania, an aspiring actress whose life is divided between a career in theatre and unfulfillments in her personal life. Critics in Romania appreciate the show as a moving interpretation of a sensitive psychological theme, with explosive variations between pain, emotion, self-irony and comedy. The audience will witness an hour of meditation and monologue on the troubled life of a young mother, who has fallen into the abyss of disappointment and her struggle with life and poverty to fulfil her dreams and keep her hope for a better future. The play was written by actor Andreas Petrescu, especially for Tania, about whom he says: "Tania Popa is a time bomb. A luxury time bomb. You never know when it's going to explode, and when it does, the reaction is powerful, it sweeps everything around". Admission to all performances on the tour will be free. DRRM promotes Romanian values across the Prut and supports, through this project, the meeting of the actors of the National Theatre "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest with the audience from several localities of the Republic of Moldova, in order to facilitate their access to the Romanian culture and language. Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu   

Coming soon at the National Theatre, #celalaltCaragiale Fabulous stories from the age of the Gallants of the Old Court transposed into a theatrical script by Dragos Galgotiu A new title on the playbill of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest, a new staging on the stage of the Pictura Hall: the Gallants of the Old Court, a dramatic script by Dragos Galgotiu after Mateiu I. Caragiale! The first performances of the show will take place on April 7, 8 and 9, 2023, at 19.30. For his first staging at the National Theatre from Bucharest, director Dragos Galgotiu chose to transpose into a dramatic script the novel by Mateiu I. Caragiale, appreciated as a strange and unique writing, on the borderline between lyrical and narrative prose, unclassifiable in any literary genre, which has been labeled, in turn, as a gothic novel, baroque novel, decadent, aestheticizing, even "the least earthly of our epic works" as the great literary critic Perpessicius declared it. Attracted by the baroque, sophisticated, hidden and mysterious aesthetics of the novel, Galgotiu stages not only an illustration of the text, but a descent into the artificial paradises of dreams, history and memory, and also one into the underworld of Bucharest, with its night-time mores of the early 20th century. The characters belong to depraved bohemia, with customs taken over from the Fanariots, and are paradoxical in their behavior, as extreme vices are combined with the refinement of a world "turned upside down". The 19th century twilight world of the Gallants is a world on the verge of extinction ("...the most beautiful of ages is fading into blood") and, as in another kind of Cherry Orchard, the show also becomes a requiem for the murdered Bucharest - for it is this city we are talking about... Dragos Galgotiu takes up the challenge of proposing innovative solutions of scenic aesthetics, in which the action is replaced by narration and its simultaneous reliving, in a cascade of reminiscences ... In the absence of a continuous narrative structure, the performance, made up of chains of sequences, is constituted as an open reading, involving the audience in another model of communication, a different way of narrating. His directorial approach also has a certain significance, that of staging the other Caragiale, in the theatre that bears the name of his illustrious father, Ion Luca, in whose shadow Mateiu - an author who belongs, in fact, to a very rarefied elite of European culture, that of the "club" of writers who claim to belong to the "dandyst" current - has been placed, perhaps unfairly. A magnificent cast will soon perform on the stage of the Pictura Hall, featuring the costumes of unparalleled inventiveness of Lia Mantoc: Cara: Marian Ralea, Pirgu: Claudiu Bleont, Pantazi: Ioan Andrei Ionescu, Pasadia: Mihai Calota, Pena Corcodusa: Cesonia Postelnicu, Rasela: Fulvia Folosea, Sultana: Magda Catone, Elvira: Costina Cheyrouze, Mina: Erika Baiesu, Tita: Rodica Ionescu, Maiorica: Dorin Andone, Serghie: Carol Ionescu, Wanda, Ilinca: Maruca Baiasu, Costache: Petre Cheregi. Directed, staged, set and musical score by Dragos Galgotiu. #celalaltCaragiale   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest participates again this spring in the project Romanian Theatre in Bucharest, Iasi and Chisinau, which has reached its 9th edition. On March 28 and 29, 2023, two of NTB's recent productions will be presented on the stage of the National Theatre "Mihai Eminescu" from Chisinau: the interwar comedy Titanic Waltz by Tudor Musatescu and Albert Camus' play The Just Assassins. Initiated since 2014 by Ion Caramitru as a "Unification Tour", the project linking the Romanian national theatres with the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theatre across the River Prut, brought this year the theatre company from Chisinau on the stage of the Studio Hall of NTB, where it presented, on January 21 and 22, 2023, the performances "The Trap" after Mihail Bulgakov's "The Flight" directed by Petru Hadarca and "Leaves of longing" after Ion Druta, directed by Alexandru Cozub. The requirement of the current edition of the Unification Tour was that each theatre should present a famous comedy from the national interwar repertoire and a performance of a pressing topicality from the great texts of dramatic literature. On the evening of March 28, 2023 (at 18.00) on the Main Stage of MENT, the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest will present the play Titanic Waltz by Tudor Musatescu, considered as the most successful comedy in the history of the Romanian theatre (performed almost 100 times in the debut season 1932-1933 on the stage of the National Theatre). A comedy with a twist, directed by Dan Tudor, an extraordinary opportunity to meet Dan Puric again, in a true acting recital of virtuoso acting, in the part of Spirache - an authentic character of a special charm, woven from humour and sadness, exuberance and gentleness. Joining him on stage, Adela Marculescu, Amalia Ciolan, Irina Cojar, Alexandra Salceanu, Afrodita Androne, Oana Constantinescu, Armand Calota, Lari Giorgescu, Ionut Toader, Mihai Muntenita, Dragos Ionescu, Axel Moustache, Daniel Badale, Dan Tudor, in a "well-rounded cast, well put together and suited to the parts performed, offering audiences of all ages a new encounter with the theatre of Tudor Musatescu", as the critics appreciate. The scenographers Stefan Caragiu (set design), Liliana Cenean (costumes) and choreographer Florin Fieroiu (stage movement) contribute to the success of the production. On March 29, 2023 (18.00), in the same hall of the National Theatre from Chisinau, the play The Just Assassins by Albert Camus, directed by Mihai Maniutiu, will be presented. Set design by Adrian Damian, costumes by Luiza Enescu, music by Mihai Dobre. "A disturbing play, with multiple facets, which combine in a fascinating alloy: fire and ice, in the same magical twist 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 "just" into their own killers. About beauty and horror. About the way history distorts and shatters destinies". This directorial "reading" has attracted the appreciation of audiences and critics since the first performance, The Just Assassins is one of the performances of NTB that is always performed sold out. A wonderful cast draws the audience into the theatre like a magnet: Marius Manole, Raluca Aprodu, Marius Bodochi, Mirela Oprisor, Maia Morgenstern, Ciprian Nicula. Both performances of the Bucharest National Theatre are "sold out" at this time and in Chisinau!   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

On the evening of March 25, 2023 will take place in the Studio Hall of NTB, in the presence of the author Matei Visniec, the premiere of the play The Word Progress On My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True, staged by director Botond Nagy, who is collaborating for the first time with the National Theatre from Bucharest, but not for the first time with this renowned playwright. Inspired by the reality of the Bosnian war, this play, written in the early 2000s, is unfortunately still relevant after more than two decades. Critically acclaimed as one of Visniec's finest plays, a blend of drama and black comedy The Word Progress On My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True (published in 2007 Lansman Publishing House) has been staged several times, including by the Influenscènes Company, directed by Jean-Luc Paliès (press award in 2009 at the Avignon Festival - off section), or by the Trap Door Theatre Company from Chicago, directed by Istvan Szabo, presented a decade ago at the "Matei Visniec Days" Festival in Suceava. The author himself is surprised by the impact of his text today, on the eve of this new premiere: "I didn't know 23 years ago that my play would remain relevant. Today I think of the mothers of the soldiers who died in Ukraine," says Matei Visniec. And I think with horror in particular of the mothers in Russia who are practically forbidden to express their grief at the loss of their sons. It is reported from credible sources that the Putin regime is allocating large sums of money to the families who have lost their sons on condition that they remain silent and do not voice any criticism of Russia's barbaric aggression against Ukraine. The issue of mothers who are unable to mourn, who are denied the right to bury their children according to ancestral customs and who are forbidden to cry in public remains tragically topical..." A lasting drama, spiced with hints of dark humor, about broken or radically changed destinies, and above all, about the otherworldly, rapturous bond between a mother and her son... ” All our lives we try to search, find and bury within us those moments that contain our mother's care. To fit every puzzle in our lives, perhaps unconsciously under the shadow of her passing cloud. But even that is a game. We hide all our lives in the hope that the day will come when She will find us. And she'll stop the missiles in our neighborhood, shout out the window that it's late, that it's time for dinner. (…) I want this performance to speak on behalf of all mothers and women who have ever suffered, either by losing their children, never being able to have them or abandoning them, but who still have the chance to see, as for the first time, through the eyes of their children. If only innocence were palpable, I wish we could feel it for just a moment through this performance. And if we're careful, maybe we'll notice it before we step on it again.” In just a few years since his debut, young director Botond Nagy (a graduate of the University of Arts in Târgu-Mures, Bocsárdi László class) has already built a promising career. Distinguished by a specific scenic universe, dominated by original technical solutions, with a modern audiovisual ambience, Botond Nagy's performances have been invited to prestigious festivals both at home and abroad, together with famous names such as Robert Wilson, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Oskaras Korsunovas, Pippo Delbono, Joseph Nadj and others. His performance "Nora" by Ibsen (at the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj) was nominated for the UNITER Awards (2020) for "Best Direction" and awarded the "Best Direction Prize of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources". Taking on the challenge that Matei Visniec's texts represent for any director, Botond Nagy has once again opted for this author on the occasion of his debut on the stage of the National Theatre. Cast: Maia Morgenstern, Marius Bodochi, Lari Giorgescu, Aylin Cadir, Razvan Oprea, Ada Gales, Florin Calbajos, Ciprian Nicula, Mihai Calota, Silviu Mircescu, Cosmin Dominte. Set design - Andreea Sandulescu. Original music & Sound design - Claudiu Urse. Stage movement - Botond Nagy. Playwriting - Agnes Kali. Light design - Cristian Niculescu. The first performances will take place on March 25 (Premiere), March 26 and April 22, 2023, at 7.30 p.m. at the Studio Hall. Tickets are available at the NTB Box Office and online at www.tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

  On the NTB's main stage, a performance that celebrates love and the joy of living Opening at the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest, on Friday, March 24, 2023, at 7.30 pm, The Journey, a performance by Dan Puric, with the unmistakable scenography of Doina Levintza. Seven years after the premiere of the stage version of Victor Eftimiu's dramatic poem, Pearls, thread yourselves, which inaugurated, with pomp, in February 2015 the reopening of NTB's Great Hall, the Dan Puric - Doina Levintza tandem returns to the same stage, with a new show that goes far beyond the minimalist title under which it appears on the posters: The Journey. This time, Dan Puric structures his performance around his own script, proposing as a pretext a scenic journey through the stations of the Bucharest subway, but which is not limited to that, bursting, during the course of the show, in an overflow of colors and movement, with moments of pantomime, tap dance, martial arts, hip hop, dance and ballet, parade of costumes and live music. In a unique concept, masterfully combined, they all offer surprising dimensions to the communication of body expressions in movement. The show is enhanced by humorous micro-scenes performed by the theatre's actors, assisted by a team of young artists of all genres, who perform on stage in a permanent whirl of rhythms, colors and sounds. This new large-scale performance is aimed at a wide audience, who will undoubtedly enjoy the reunion with this complete actor who is Dan Puric, creator of a universal language, accessible to the human soul, a scenic talent coupled with a special charm that breaks down social, ethnic and language barriers. Always attentive to the human beings and their needs in these times, Puric proposes "a journey towards what has been lost: towards the soul, love and the joy of living". With Dan Puric's performance, we are closer to human values and feelings that are increasingly alien to today's world: dignity, beauty, love, soul, nobility, art, gentleness, candor, humor, spirit, harmony, joy and purity of soul. A performance of gratitude, The Journey, is dedicated to the beloved choreographer Malou Iosif, who lives in Nice and turns 98 in March. This performance proposes a "journey" to the heart of the human being, so abandoned today, to the Romanian soul untainted by the times, to the privilege of loving and laughing! says the creator of the performance. Those who will get their "ticket" will have the chance to find themselves in what they are and, above all, in what they need to be! There will be "stations" where they will be able to reflect on life, others where they will remember the mystery of love and many others where they will rediscover the joy of life! Dan Puric The performance contains stroboscopic effects. Not recommended for sensitive people and children under 12 years old. The following performances are scheduled for April 2 and 13, 2023, at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are available at the NTB Box Office and online at tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest announces the premiere of Rehearsal for a Better World, a dramatization by Mihai Radu and Ionuț Sociu based on the novel of the same name by Mihai Radu, on March 18 and 19, 2023, at 7.30 pm, at the "Ion Caramitru" Hall. Constantly in the public eye, director Radu Afrim returns in the stages of NTB with a new challenge, this time opting for a dramatization of a novel that has aroused a wave of interest immediately after its publication in 2022, Mihai Radu's novel entitled "Rehearsal for a Better World". Attracted by the apparently non-dramatic literature, in which he sees "a huge scenic potential", Radu Afrim reconfirms this option and explains: "Certainly, I adopt the atmosphere of the prose/poems that I move into theatre. The spectators often discover it first in my performances, then they run to the book. It's a possible path. (...) I'm very interested in the writing. I feel its vibe." (Quoted from an interview by Ana Maria Sandu and Marius Chivu, Dilema Veche, no. 985/2023) A well-known satire journalist (his collaborations with the weekly newspaper "Cațavencii" and the TV show "Starea nației" are well known), Mihai Radu is also in his novels the same sarcasm and lucidity professional we find in his press articles. His latest novel, Rehearsal for a Better World, published by Polirom in July 2022, is the novel of a crisis. A generalized crisis, "a Matryoshka of crises", as the author declared in an interview, which are felt on a moral, political, ecological and civilizational level. A story about an ordinary Romanian family, set in today's Bucharest, but so defining for the entire Western civilization of the moment. The novel offers playful, but also dense and psychological material for "a show about many separations: the separation between spouses and lovers, between parents and children, between one generation and another, the separation from the past, from hopes, and, why not, the separation even from the future." All this with an overdose of contemporary humor. A story about each of us, which Radu Afrim brings to the stage in his own style, always surprising, reeking of "problems of the soul in its journey through the visible world". In his new show Radu Afrim focuses on life as seen by the young author Mihai Radu as a playground"... where there is death, sexuality, the nostalgia of adolescence and youth, hopes... in a play that is sometimes candid and naive, sometimes cruel and frightening". "Sitting at the table with Radu Afrim and the actors, each of us grabbing dialogues, descriptions, monologues from the novel... trying them on as if trying on clothes in a boutique, I lived this fantastic experience: to see how your words turn into gestures, looks, laughter, tears. You feel like a god, but a god that pisses himself in fear: "F..k, what if the world doesn't turn out the way I want it to?", says Mihai Radu about the birth of this show that you will be able to see on the NTB's Ion Caramitru Hall stage. We invite you to follow the tnb.ro website in order to purchase your tickets for the following performances, scheduled to take place in the "Ion Caramitru" Hall of NTB, on April 8, 12 and 21, 2023, at 7.30 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the NTB Box Office and online at tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

For the UNITER Gala Awards 2023, the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest was nominated twice: - In the Best Supporting Actress category: Raluca Aprodu for the part of Dora Dulebov in "The Just Assassins" by Albert Camus, directed by Mihai Maniutiu - In the Debut category: Mariuca-Serena Bosnea for the part of Caterina Sergheievna Odintsov, Anna's sister in Brian Friel's "Fathers and Sons", dramatization based on Turgheniev's novel, directed by Vlad Massaci According to the statute of the Romanian Theatre Union, the UNITER Senate - Board of Directors awards the "Ion Caramitru" Excellence Award, the Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Special Awards at the UNITER Awards Gala. On the basis of the proposals received from the theatres and the proposals of the members of the UNITER Senate, the Senate decided at its meeting held on March 13, 2023 on the following awards: "Ion Caramitru" Excellence Award: the Interferences International Theatre Festival, organized by the Hungarian Theatre from ClujActress Lifetime Achievement Award: Ida Jarcsek-GazaActor Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandru RepanAward for Lifetime Achievement in Directing: Lásló BocsárdiAward for lifetime achievement in set design: Carmencita Brojboiu"George Banu" Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre History and Criticism: Doru Mares  Special awardsSpecial award to the Romanian Television for 30 years of strategic partnershipSpecial award for outstanding contribution to the multicultural life of Timisoara: "Mihai Eminescu" National Theatre Timisoara, "Csiky Gergely" Hungarian State Theatre Timisoara, German State Theatre, "Merlin" Theatre for Children and Youth TimisoaraSpecial award for creativity and resilience in independent theatre: Aualeu Theatre Nominations for the UNITER Gala Awards 2023For the 31st edition of the UNITER Awards Gala, the nominations jury was composed of Doru Mares (theatre critic), Maria Miu (set designer), Victor Scoradet (theatre critic), Iris Spiridon (director) and Carmen Stanciu (theatreologist).The performances that have been considered by the jury are those that premiered between 1 January and 31 December 2022.  The nominations for the 2022 theatre year are as follows: Best performance"Antonin Artaud. The Cenci", after Shelley and Stendhal, directed by Silviu Purcarete, set design Dragos Buhagiar, "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre Iasi"Oedipus the King" by Sophocles, directed by Declan Donnellan, set design Nick Ormerod, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Craiova“Seaside Stories” by Marius Chivu, Lavinica Mitu, Dan Alexe, Simona Gosu, Tudor Ganea, Nicoleta Dabija, direction, script, sound universe by Radu Afrim, set design by Theodor Cristian Niculae, Constanta State Theatre  Best direction (“Lucian Pintilie” Award)Declan Donnellan for directing the performance “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre CraiovaSilviu Purcarete for directing the performance “Antonin Artaud. The Cenci”, after Shelley and Stendhal, "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre IasiAndri Zholdak for directing the performance “The Lady from the Sea” by Henrik Ibsen, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Craiova Best set designDragos Buhagiar for the set design of the performance “Antonin Artaud. The Cenci”, after Shelley and Stendhal, directed by Silviu Purcarete, "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre IasiOana Micu for the set design of the performance “Blasted” by Sarah Kane, directed by Bobi Pricop, “Andrei Muresanu” Theatre, Sfantu GheorgheDanilo Zholdak for the setting of the performance “The Lady from the Sea” by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Andri Zholdak, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Craiova Best Actor in a Leading RoleClaudiu Bleont for the part of Harpagon in the performance “The Miser” by Molière, direction, stage version, lighting design, musical illustration Felix Alexa, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre CraiovaClaudiu Mihail for the leading part in “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, directed by Declan Donnellan, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre CraiovaVictor Rebengiuc for the leading part in the performance “Father” by Florian Zeller, directed by Cristi Juncu, Bulandra Theatre Bucharest Best Actress in a Leading RoleAda Lupu for the part Beatrice Cenci in the performance “Antonin Artaud. The Cenci”, after Shelley and Stendhal, directed by Silviu Purcarete, "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre IasiÉva Imre for the part Barbarian B in the performance “The Young Barbarians”, inspired by the lives of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, based on a text by Miklós Vecsei H. and the improvisations of the creative team, directed by Attila Vidnyánszky Jr., Hungarian State Theatre Cluj and the Citadel Theatre from Gyula, HungaryCostinela Ungureanu for the part Ellida Wangel in the performance “The Lady from the Sea” by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Andri Zholdak, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Craiova  Best Supporting ActorDan Pughineanu for the part Marlene, the host in the performance “The Threepenny Opera”, direction, choreography, costumes Razvan Mazilu, Excelsior Theatre BucharestTheodor Soptelea for the parts in the performance “Seaside Stories” by Marius Chivu, Lavinica Mitu, Dan Alexe, Simona Gosu, Tudor Ganea, Nicoleta Dabija, direction, script, sound universe by Radu Afrim, State Theatre ConstantaVlad Udrescu for the part Creon in the performance “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, directed by Declan Donnellan, “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Craiova  Best Supporting ActressRaluca Aprodu for the part Dora Dulebov in the performance “The Just Assassins” by Albert Camus, directed by Mihai Maniutiu, “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre from Bucharest           Cendana Trifan for the part Daughter in the performance “Mother” by Marta Barceló, directed by Mariana Camarasan, “Radu Stanca” National Theatre SibiuNina Udrescu for the parts in the performance “Seaside Stories” by Marius Chivu, Lavinica Mitu, Dan Alexe, Simona Gosu, Tudor Ganea, Nicoleta Dabija, direction, script, sound universe by Radu Afrim, State Theatre Constanta  Theatre reviewAlina EpingeacClaudiu GrozaIrina Zlotea  Best Radio Drama Performance“Carnival”, radio script by Alexa Visarion, after I.L. Caragiale, a performance by Alexa Visarion, Romanian Broadcasting Society“The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, radio dramatization and artistic direction Diana Mihailopol, Romanian Broadcasting Society“Horizon” by George Gordon Byron, John M. Hull, Liviu Oros, concept and direction by Victor Olahut, Cultura'n Sura  DébutIrina Artenii for the part in the performance “Rafina”, O2G Association, BucharestMariuca-Serena Bosnea for the part Caterina Sergheievna Odintov, Ana's sister in the performance “Fathers and Sons” by Brian Friel, dramatization after Turgheniev's novel, directed by Vlad Massaci, “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre from BucharestTheodor Cristian Niculae for the set design of the performance “Seaside Stories” by Marius Chivu, Lavinica Mitu, Dan Alexe, Simona Gosu, Tudor Ganea, Nicoleta Dabija, direction, script, sound universe by Radu Afrim, Constanta State Theatre  Best Romanian dramatic text staged in absolute premiere*“Herbarium”, scenario and direction by Radu Afrim, after texts by Simona Popescu, Targu Mures National Theatre, “Liviu Rebreanu” Company“Medeea: Fury”, text and direction by Radu Popescu, Apropo Theatre Bucharest“The Sparrow”, text and direction by Leta Popescu, Dramatic Theatre “Fani Tardini” Galati Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu