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Starting March 13, 2025, on the stage of the "Ion Caramitru" Hall, you are invited to see Secondary, a new production written and directed by Alexandra Badea. This is her third staging at the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre in Bucharest, after "The Romania Complex", based on a text by Mihaela Michailov (2008) and her great success with "Exile" (2022), the director based in Paris for over two decades, awarded at only 43 with the French Academy Award for Theatre for her entire activity (!), returns with a new highly personal proposal: the play Secondary - staged on the main stage of the theater, a gripping psychological thriller. Theater in theater and film in theater, the new performance crowns some of the recent searches and favorite themes of the talented writer: the relations of domination and power, psychological abuse, the existential crisis that can be caused by a traumatic event... In a world that today is in more acute turmoil than ever, Alexandra Badea's Secondary is a reflection of the structural insecurity we are going through, which also imagines alternatives to the current impasse. The spectators will find themselves in the eight characters, concerned with gaining the recognition of others, by weighing the qualities that recommend them for one part or another.... We each find ourselves in search of a leading role, whatever the situation. Alexandra Badea was interested, also in the preparation of this performance, to dialog first, during dramatic improvisations, with the future cast. Having grown up in a world of the image, dominated by television and surveillance cameras, portable video cameras and telephones that replace the traditional video camera, the director enriches the scenic universe with video images according to a personal drama concept. "A six-camera installation surveils the characters in the most intimate spaces in which they are not supposed to enter, capturing moments of vulnerability in which social masks fall away and the characters lose control over the image they have constructed. Intimacy is annulled", warns the author, who uses the process to bring to the fore not only the actors' gazes, but also the characters' thoughts and ambivalence, through a lively dialog between theater and film, creating a powerful visual universe. The cast of the show includes well-known actors of the theater: Diana Dumbrava, Crina Semciuc, Ada Gales, Cosmina Olariu, Emilian Oprea, Alexandru Potocean, Istvan Teglas, Mihai Calin and Marius Bodochi (voce). The director, who has several important awards to her credit, including the prestigious French Order "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" (2016), says that these actors from the TNB company - which she wants to explore further - could and deserve to be on stage anytime alongside actors from the Comédie Française, the Barbican or the Schaubühne. The following have contributed to the realization of the performance, achieving the other essential components of the production: Cosmin Florea - Scenography, Calin Topa - Sound design, Cristian Simon - Lighting design, Boróka Biró - Director of photography. The first performances will take place on March 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2025, at 19.00, at Ion Caramitru Hall. In April, the performance is scheduled for Thursday 24, at 7: 00 pm., at 19.00, at Ion Caramitru Hall. In April, the performance is scheduled for Thursday 24, at 7: 00 pm. Tickets are available at the ticket office of the I.L. Caragiale National Theater in Bucharest and online at www.tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

"The Silent Escape", a performance of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest, directed and performed by the actress Oana Pellea, will be staged at the Shaw Theatre in London on March 12, 2025. After its resounding success in September in Luxembourg, where it had two sold-out performances at the Theatre des Capucins, and after opening the "Interferente" International Theatre Festival in Cluj-Napoca at the end of last year, "The Silent Escape" will have its first meeting with the London audience. Adapted and directed by the actress Oana Pellea, based on Lena Constante's book, the performance "The Silent Escape" premiered in November 2023 at the Atelier Hall of the National Theatre in Bucharest with an impressive success, being performed since then with a closed house. It is a story about survival, inner freedom and resistance in the face of oppression, based on the dramatic experiences of visual artist, writer and ethnographer Lena Constante during the communist prisons. Oana Pellea, through a deep and sensitive interpretation, brings to life the voice of Lena Constante, conveying the emotions and sufferings of a woman who found the strength to resist through art and introspection. "Silent Escape" is not just a theatrical performance, but a living testimony to human resilience and strength of spirit. The performance will be performed in Romanian with English subtitles. The event is part of Romania's program at the London Book Fair and is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, through the National Book Centre, with the support of the Romanian Embassy, Kibo Productions, Shaw Theatre. Media partners: Povești spuse-n românește and Rostalgy. Tickets are on sale at shaw-theatre.com. Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu    Photography: Florin Ghioca  

Starting February 14, 2025, you are invited to the Studio Hall to see The Prophet Elijah (Prophet Ilya) by Tadeusz Słobodzianek, the play chosen by director Botond Nagy for his second staging at the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre in Bucharest, after "The Word Progress on My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True" by Matei Visniec. The works of Tadeusz Słobodzianek (director, playwright, theater director) are among the most original in contemporary Polish drama and have been awarded prestigious Polish literary prizes. Among his best-known creations is the stage tript consisting of the dramas: “Tsar Nicholas” (1985), “The Prophet Ilya” (1992), and “Death of a Prophet” (2011). “The Prophet Ilya” is based on information published by Włodzimierz Pawluczuk, a sociologist and religious scholar, who described the phenomenon of the Prophet Ilya in his 1974 study centered on the figure of Eliasz Klimowicz, an eccentric man who lived in the northeastern Polish region of Białystok in the 30s and 40s. A reportage about the end of the world; the story of a group of people who broke away from the Greek Orthodox Church and tried to build their own world in a small godforsaken village. Klimowicz, who owned only one book - the Bible - and all he knew about the world was information he heard by word of mouth, proclaimed himself the biblical prophet Ilya. He built an Orthodox church in a settlement called Wierszalin, where he founded a New Jerusalem and soon gathered a group of devoted followers. After some time, Ilya announced that the end of the world was near. His faithful followers awaited the apocalypse, but as their wait seemed to be in vain, they decided to help by hastening the course of history. They resorted to the familiar crucifixion scenario and nailed the prophet to the cross just like Jesus. So Ilya's story also becomes the story of a group of people who wanted to change the world by trying to make their dreams come true. Playwright Słobodzianek explains: 'I was interested in this story because, like a crystal ball, it mirrors all the utopias we have lived through during the 20th century: Christianity, communism and nationalism, the mixing of different cultures, nations, languages and religions. We seem to have entered the 21st century with this burden, and there is no indication that we will be able to escape it - on the contrary, it seems to be getting more and more overwhelming. The Prophet Ilya is a play that explores the problems of racial hatred and bigotry, nightmares that continue to haunt us despite some fair denunciations. For Botond Nagy "The Prophet Elijah" is "a provocative and cheeky text", "an unbelievable story in XIV scenes" (the author's subtitle), with 14 characters, a tough story, which the director dresses in an image focused on light. "Everything is very comic and at the same time very painful". With this new production, Botond Nagy invites us to a deep and sincere meditation on faith and religion. If the God of Słobodzianek's drama died with Nietzsche's statement, yet He exists in the love and humanity in which the young director continues to believe. Not recommended for people under 18 - for known reasons (licentious language and scenes with sexual connotations), Tadeusz Słobododzianek's play in the stage reading signed by one of the most exciting directors of the young generation in Romania comes at a time of deep spiritual and moral crisis facing contemporary societies. Richard Bovnoczki, Aylin Cadir, Florentina Tilea, Silviu Mircescu, Emilian Marnea, Razvan Oprea, Ofelia Popii, Florin Calbajos, Lari Giorgescu, Vitalie Bichir, Mihai Calota - well-known names of the TNB stage, who were joined by the very young Leonard Chionac, Oana Laura Gabriela, Teo Dinca. Irina Moscu - Scenography, Diana Nechit - Dramaturg, Claudiu Urse - Original Music and Sound design, Cristian Niculescu - Lighting design and Video design, all had a significant contribution to create the world and atmosphere of the performance. The first performances will take place on February 14, 15, 16 (official premiere) and March 20, 2025, at 19.00 and on March 22 at 12.00. Tickets are available at the TNB box office and online at tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

The 10th edition of the Tour of Unification through Art - The Romanian Theater Bucharest-Iasi-Chisinau will bring on February 1 and 2, 2025 at the NTB two major performances of the Mihai Eminescu National Theater: The Glass Garden and Chirita in Concert in Chisinau. The performance The Glass Garden, directed by Petru Hadarca, is a dramatization by Mariana Onceanu based on Tatiana Tibuleac's novel of the same title, awarded the European Union Prize for Literature - 2019. Taken from an orphanage, named Lastocika ("swallow" transl.), raised by a Russian woman in a Russian-dominated Chisinau, where the court was legion, the orphan grows up in search of love, understanding, landmarks with which she could identify. Her mother tongue, Romanian, keeps her rooted in her cultural-identity and opens the way to her connection with the free world. "The novel The Glass Garden by Tatiana Tibuleac has shaken me deeply and brought me out of my inner comfort. It made me see the world from a different perspective, from several different angles: I felt the bitterness in the mouth of an orphaned child, a woman's fears about her femininity, the emptiness in the soul of a man desperately searching for a sense of identity. This confession, which sometimes bursts with rage and cruelty, sometimes turns into a lyrical meditation, sometimes meticulously cuts the thread in four or bites ironically, makes you wonder by what miracle an abandoned and unloved child, raped in his teenage years, becomes a good person who loves and gives love?", says the director of the performance, Petru Hadarca. The second performance to be presented by the TNME on February 2, 2025 is Chirita in concert in Chisinau, a musical staged by Ada Milea, on a script inspired by the plays of Vasile Alecsandri and Matei Millo. TNME's Chirita is seductive, charismatic and, of course, spirited and fiery, ready to eat fire for the sake of her priceless offspring: the funky Gulita - "bearded child", Aristita and Calipsita - "my little girls, plucked from the stars", the flamboyant and charming Luluta, trapped in a golden cage, and the whole retinue of the famous play: The Charlatans - surprising in their tricks, Conu Barzoi - a candidate for mayor, the exciting Leonas, in a parade of unexpected disguises, and a surprise character - Vasile Alecsandri, who, imperturbable, watches from the pedestal, the accelerated unfolding of the actions. TNME has chosen Vasile Alecsandri's plays because he is one of the few classic authors who, along with Mihai Eminescu and Ion Creanga, was allowed by censors in libraries and school textbooks during the Soviet period. And Chirița is the comic and jovial character, but also subversive at the same time, because it was she who provided the connection between the two sides of the Prut, when Soviet ideology was instrumentalizing the narrative of two literatures and two languages. The Romanian Theater Bucharest-Iasi-Chisinau Unification Tour is a long-standing project initiated by the late Ion Caramitru, who aimed to unite the two banks of the Prut through theater. The event takes place annually in January, around the celebration of the Unification of the Principalities Day, and includes performances in Bucharest and Iasi, followed by a return tour to Chisinau, organized around March 27, the anniversary of the Unification of Bassarabia with Romania. The project is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute and its representation in Chisinau, the Romanian Cultural Institute "Mihai Eminescu". Both performances will take place in the "Ion Caramitru" Hall of the NTB, starting at 7 pm. Tickets for the two unique performances are on sale on tnb.ro and at the Ticket Office of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest. Photography Florin Ghioca   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Exclusive taxi service for NTB spectators The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theater in Bucharest and Meridian Taxi are delighted to welcome the spectators with an initiative aimed to bring a touch of comfort and safety to winter evenings. From January 22, 2025, right after the end of the performance of "The Hanged Man's Forest" (around 10.40 pm), a specially arranged station in the theater's parking lot will offer culture lovers an easy way to continue their evening in peace, without worrying about the cold or the dark. This partnership is dedicated to all those who believe that the magic of performance should not stop when the curtain comes down. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of spectators who attend NTB performances and who often face mobility problems due to traffic jams, both at peak hours (coinciding with the starting times of NTB performances) and at late hours when some performances end, the taxi company Meridian TAXI has recently signed a partnership protocol with the NTB under which it offers an exclusive service with premium advantages of access to taxi on-demand services to NTB spectators, both when they leave the NTB and when they arrive for performances or other events at the NTB: fast order pick-up, immediate access to the pick-up location (located within the perimeter of the NTB parking lot), payment of the ride with POS, synchronization of the flow of available cars with the number of spectators, payment by card in the mobile app, ordering via Whatsapp and Instagram, etc. Thus, based on a QR code displayed in the NTB foyers, spectators will be able to initiate by phone the order of a taxi from the Meridian fleet, immediately receiving the necessary details for the trip, and will be directed to the customer arrival/ pick-up points located visibly in the NTB's outdoor parking lot. Meridian will automatically take NTB customers' orders, directing taxis with priority to this area specially set up by NTB in its own parking lot, hereinafter referred to as the "customer pick-up/arrival point" Upon arrival of the taxis, customers will be validated by the drivers on the basis of the messages received by phone and transported to the desired destinations. Spectators who will use the services of the Meridian taxi fleet to come to the performances and events taking place at the NTB will also benefit from various advantages: payment of the fare by mobile POS, compliance with the mandatory premium equipment conditions of the taxis that will serve this destination. Meridian will offer discounts or bonuses to NTB spectators: for every 4 rides to the National Theater, Meridian will offer a 40 lei voucher (Conditions of use: rides must be ordered from the Meridian application; a user can receive a maximum of 2 vouchers in a calendar month). Taxi to the theater! - here is a slogan about to become reality...   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

The jukebox musical Here we are!, a co-production of 2024 Touchstone Creative and the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest, is a new musical show on the NTB's bill, performed by young actors Laura Gabriela Oana, Andreea Gaica, Dragos Ionita, Andrei Marcuta and Andrei Dutu, accompanied by the orchestrations of Bogdan Morosanu (Rockabella). Staged this summer in Bucharest, in a national premiere, at the 10th anniversary of the underground band Rockabella, and presented at the Sala Media of the NTB, "Here We Are!" returns to the stage of the National Theater in Bucharest after a national mini-tour. Written by Andrei Radu and Natalie Ester on music and lyrics by Teodorei Morosanu (Rockabella), directed by Natalie Ester and Ionut Grama, this performance, produced by Touchstone Creative in partnership with the "I L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest, was co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.   The script of the show, which aims to artistically explore through musicals the phenomenon of youth migration, is based on real facts and experiences shared by young people who took part in the storytelling workshops "Until Far Away" of the project, developed by playwright Ana Cucu-Popescu and director Natalie Ester. The musical "Here We Are!" returns to the stage and continues its way to the hearts of the public with its inclusion in the repertoire of the current season of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theater in Bucharest. The first performances to which we invite you, this time at the Sala Atelier, are scheduled on January 18 and 23, 2025, from 19:00. The new performance at the Bucharest National Theatre is a bittersweet song of young people who have gone abroad, of those who want to cross the border and of the stories that have carried them on their way to maturity. The end of 12th grade. We experience, with the young performers, the joy of prom. We go through the excitement of the high school exam, then forget our worries on the sand of the party in Vama Veche. We take a deep breath, look into the eyes of our friends and vow never to part. Then we hit the road. And passions, ambitions, potential, families, 'the system' - or all of them together - push us to different corners of the world... And promises once made on a beach remain a footnote in a diary: 'Someone find our way back'. Between rock chords, fulfilled dreams and missed chances, five "No Answer" friends think they are "Invulnerable" and raise the "White Flag" in the hope of reliving an encore together. Audiences will find life stories inspired by true events and fans of local rock music will enjoy new interpretations of songs from the albums "Clarobscur" and "Invulnerabili". The creative team also included Ioana Pashca (scenography), Filip Stoica (choreography), Georgiana Mototolea (vocal preparation), Andrei Délczeg (lighting design), Alexandra Suditu (production assistant), Bianca Archip (lighting operator) and Alina Epingeac (theaterlogist). Tickets are available at the NTB box office and online at www.tnb.ro   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

The new year begins at “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre with a premiere directed by Felix Alexa: Out at Sea by Slawomir Mrożek, on the stage of the Pictura Hall. With an outstanding cast and an atmosphere of extraordinary plasticity created by set designers Stefan Caragiu and Liliana Cenean, director Felix Alexa reimagines Slawomir Mrożek's black comedy from the 1960s for today's audiences. Perhaps the best one-act play by one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century, Out at Sea is a political parable and at the same time an absurdist comedy with a disturbing message behind the humor. Although written in the midst of Soviet censorship, the play is disturbingly topical and seems straight out of today's headlines.4 The play follows the fate of three starving shipwrecked people trying to find a "democratic" way to decide which of them will be eaten by the other two. The arguments become more and more demagogic, the bullying and cajoling more and more intense, until the interventions of a passing postman and an old servant push the action to a frightening climax. "Out at Sea" condemns, through the cynicism, absurdity and satire so characteristic of Mrożek's writing, the Machiavellian brutality of political power at all times. "What could be more topical today than "man being eaten by man", as a character in Mrożek's play puts it? I would say that today we are revolving around the nuances of this cannibalistic action, in all its senses. A brilliantly clever text, "Out at Sea" now becomes much more exciting, dangerous and acute than when it was written.  For me, this performance is a wake-up call to the moral degradation of society. Beneath the play's subtle, dark and piercing humor lie the painful truths of our daily lives.   And yet, how far can human beings go with their lack of scruples when "hunger" becomes the main element? Far enough for 'Out at Sea', this gem of absurdist theater, to become cruelly realistic." Felix Alexa The first performances will take place on January 17, 18 and 19, 2025, at 19.00, and the official premiere on January 24, at 7 pm.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

On the occasion of the National Day of Culture, Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the program of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest will include: Mind and Heart - Reading-performance with two plays in one act by Mihai Eminescu Part I - Mind and HeartCast: Ionut Toader (Mimi), Alice Salceanu (Bibi), Monica Davidescu (Ana), Cesonia Postelnicu (The Aunt) Part II – Gogu TatiiCast: Alice Salceanu (Anetta), Ionut Toader (Barbu), Ovidiu Cuncea (Pavel), Razvan Popa (Leizer)Directed by: Razvan PopaSala Media, 7 pmFree access The passion for the stage and its problems embraced different aspects in the life and preoccupations of the poet Mihai Eminescu. He got "caught" in the mirage of theater in his childhood, when he listened to Alecsandri's plays, and in his adolescence, when "I once played theater in the attic room - he remembers - where I used to sit with the Armenian...", a fellow student at the German High School in Cernauți (1860-1863). His involvement in the work of famous private companies (Tardini-Vladicescu, Pascaly, Iorgu Caragiali) and the Teatrul cel Mare in Bucharest as a souffleur, actor (sporadically) and [literary] secretary cemented his connection with the world of show business, giving him the impetus to put some dramatic projects on paper himself during his student years. The contact with the Junimea Magazine, as well as the spiritual context of the time in which topics related to theatrical life were the order of the day, gave him the opportunity to express himself as an exceptional theoretician and theater chronicler, sometimes also as a translator, for the newspapers Curierul de Yassy, Timpul, and various literary magazines in Transylvania (collaboration during his studies in Vienna, when the idea of a Romanian theater in the region was taking shape). His plays - historical dramas and comedies of manners - more in verse than in prose, have the outline of dramatized poems. For the most part, they have no final form and are, as the author himself would say, at the stage of "reworking". Minte si inima (Mind and Heart), a reading-performance with two plays in one act by Mihai Eminescu, directed by Razvan Popa, reconstructs, with much humor, a fragment of Romanian life in the 19th century. "Was Eminescu also a playwright, exegetes occasionally wonder, or was he only a fickle, as the great novelist Stendhal was, in theatrical matters all his life? Fragmentary, more compact or simple punctuations and schematizations, Eminescu's dramatic works prove... a continuous aspiration and serious means, which could have fostered a powerful creator of characters and dramatic situations. ...his short and troubled biography did not allow the great poet, who was undeniably also a man of the theater, as he was a man of the library, of school and of journalism, to include in the permanent repertory of the theater dramatic works that were at the highest level of his perfect lyrical creations." Perpessicius   "The National Theater in Bucharest has a moral, social and cultural duty to promote Romanian drama whenever it can, and in the context of the anniversary of the national poet Mihai Eminescu's birthday and the National Culture Day, the National Theater has a duty to promote Eminescian drama. Last year we did a reading performance with Emmi, lost love, lost life, a play in one act, which has never been performed in Bucharest and which incited the audience present at the performance, with the hope of transforming it into a show in the repertoire of the National Theatre, a hope, unfortunately, unrealized. This year I propose two comedies written, of course, by the eternal Mihai Eminescu, but also unfortunately, unfortunately, not finished by the - otherwise - prolific poet. It cannot be called a restitution, as both texts have never been performed on stage or presented in any way to the public. It is not only an exercise in remembrance, but also a wide-ranging reverence full of gratitude to the immortal poet and for his continuing inspiration." Razvan Popa "Queen Mary at the theater" exhibition Spectators are invited to 2 guided tours in the National Theatre Museum to discover the exhibition "Queen Maria at the Theatre", organized within the project "Innovative exhibition with restored cultural goods from the NTB Museum collection", funded by the EEA Grants 2014-2021, RO-Culture Program (www.muzeultnb.ro). The exhibition presents stage costumes and objects belonging to great Romanian actors, recently restored and exhibited in the new space dedicated to the museum, inaugurated on March 27, 2023, on the occasion of the World Theater Day. The main attraction is a dress with a train that belonged to Queen Maria of Romania, and the exhibition is complemented by interactive, visual and auditory elements. Starting times: 12.00 and 14.00 Tickets are available free of charge from the Ticket Office and online at www.tnb.ro   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

On the occasion of the Winter Holidays, the NTB Box Office will have the following opening hours: On December 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 2024 and January 1, 2, 3, 2025 - closed! Open December 23 from 12:00 - 18:00 and December 27, 28, 29 from 10:00 - 19:00! From January 4, 2025 we will return to normal hours of operation! We wish you Happy Holidays and look forward to seeing you at our performances!   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

After a 32-year absence from the stage of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest, director Andrei Serban returns on December 12 and 13, 2024 with the premiere of Mary Stuart, an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's classic play by British playwright Robert Icke. The production benefits from an outstanding cast, sets by Helmut Stürmer and costumes by Corina Gramosteanu, marking a landmark in this year's theater season. This production brings to the fore the dramatic conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, exploring themes of power, ambition and identity in a modern and captivating vision, under the baton of a director who has left his mark on world theater. This "is an important moment for Romanian theater, marking the return of a master who continues to fascinate and challenge new generations of spectators" - journalist Radu Caranfil said in September. On the eve of the official premiere, director Andrei Serban confesses, "I return after more than 30 years at the National Theatre with an extremely ambitious project - Mary Stuart, a modern-day adaptation by my friend Robert Icke of Schiller's famous historical play.* It is the drama of two powerful women, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I - two queens, of Scotland and England, respectively. Both come face to face with the most extreme consequences of power. (...) A play about the plight of these women, fascinated by each other, caught in a complex web of attraction, rivalry and jealousy. A nation divided, when history loses its meaning and everything seems driven by chance, a truth of all times as well as of the moment we are living in today (...) Icke offers an extraordinary chance for the women to play alternately two huge roles: the queen who must be assassinated (Mary) and the one who must assassinate her (Elizabeth). The choice also offers the surprise of a purely theatrical element, a demonstration of acting virtuosity. (...) For Icke, chance is paramount in the way the play evolves. That's why on certain evenings in the performance, all the actors find out at the last moment, at the same time as the audience, the cast of the two queens by the simple flip of a coin! The toss of the coin symbolically emphasizes the arbitrary nature of destiny and the togetherness of the two women, alone in a man's world. These women are in fact two sides of the same coin. While the coin is spinning, time and history remain suspended", says the director. Serban has always been drawn to contemporary reinterpretations of great classical texts, and the collaboration with Robert Icke, one of the most talented British directors of his generation, represents a pinnacle meeting of two different theatrical visions. Mary Stuart directed by Robert Icke premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2016 to remarkable acclaim. The cast and the creative team that brings this story to the stage of the National Theatre include remarkable names: Raluca Aprodu and Ofelia Popii (who play, alternately, the roles of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart), Nicoleta Lefter (Mary Stuart), Mihai Calin, Florin Aioane /Stefan Mihai / Tudor Cucu Dumitrescu, Conrad Mericoffer, Marius Bodochi, Emilian Oprea, Mihai Calota, Ciprian Nicula, Florin Calbajos. Director: Andrei Serban; Associate director: Daniela Dima; Set design: Helmut Stürmer; Costumes: Corina Gramosteanu; Music: Alexei Turcan; Video: Andrei Cozlac; Lighting design: Cristi Niculescu; Sound design: Liviu Stoica. Assistant director: Corina Mihaela Predescu; Set design assistant: Steff Chelaru; Lighting design assistant: Daniel Mateescu. Artistic consultant: Ilinca Radulian; Delegated producer: Madalina Ciupitu. * Adapted by Robert Icke after Friedrich Schiller. Translation by Irina Velcescu. Performance version: Daniela Dima. Official Premiere: December 12 and 13, 2024, 19.00, at the Studio Hall. The next performances are scheduled for January 10, 11 and 12, 2025 at 19:00.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu