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The official premiere of the representation Scourge, directed by Radu Afrim will take place on Sunday, 16 December, at 20.00, at the new Media Hall. The innovative director's first meeting with the classic author will be inciting, intriguing, irritating, but it will certainly not go unnoticed. The only drama written by I. L. Caragiale, the history of female revenge, Scourge in Afrim's vision triggers emotion and suspense, in a highly sensorial, instinctive and expressive show. The access to the Media Hall is made from the Tudor Arghezi Street, at the backside of the NTB building. Details  

The official premiere of the representation Scourge, directed by Radu Afrim will take place on Sunday, 16 December, at 20.00, at the new Media Hall. The innovative director's first meeting with the classic author will be inciting, intriguing, irritating, but it will certainly not go unnoticed. The only drama written by I. L. Caragiale, the history of female revenge, Scourge in Afrim's vision triggers emotion and suspense, in a highly sensorial, instinctive and expressive show. Mihai Călin, Marius Manole, Emilian Oprea and Crina Semciuc / Simona Popescu create an effervescent world, which is accompanied by a strange thrill given by Luiza Zan's and Valentin Luca's music. A setting which evokes the urban routine, but which is loaded with telluric details, made by Vanda Maria Sturdza, extended to a surreal parade by Cosmin Florea's costumes, which complete the haunting atmosphere of the show. "I have rarely attempted at texts from our patrimony, but when I did, I felt the need to leave traces. A tame reading for Scourge would be useless (...) I walked with Lorca, I got to a first name basis with Chekhov...Do you think that Caragiale will refuse me?" Radu Afrim The new Media Hall's opening for the public will take place at the same time with the premiere of the representation Scourge. This is the second new hall given to use within the ample reconstruction project of the "I. L. Caragiale" National Theatre. On 16 December 2012, starting at 19.00, this new space will also host an exhibition comprising 15 ample works made by the famous painter Ion Sălișteanu (1929-2011). These works are given to the National Theatre by the artist's family so that they will be permanently displayed in the main foyer of the Media Hall. This foyer will be named from now on "The Ion Sălișteanu Foyer". The access to the Media Hall is made from the Tudor Arghezi Street, at the backside of the NTB building.   Translated by: Izabella Feher

The National Theatre from Bucharest announces the premiere of the representation Mr. Leonida Faces the Reaction by I. L. Caragiale, directed by Silviu Purcărete. The official premiere will take place on Tuesday 20th November and on Wednesday 21st November, at 20.00, at the Small Hall. It is a fantasy à la Purcărete, with numerous surprising moments, which rely on the extraordinary performance of two great actors. A representation in which Mariana Mihuţ and Victor Rebengiuc compose and recompose, with a devastating comic, the roles of Caragiale's undying heroes. A staging in which the setting itself, made by Dragoş Buhagiar, becomes a character, and Vasile Şirli's music potentiates with intelligence and humour the directorial intentions. Within the program announced for the Caragiale Year, the National Theatre honours, with this new Caragiale premiere, another promise. At his first collaboration with the National Theatre from Bucharest, the director Silviu Purcărete creates an unconventional show, with a refined humour, sweet and sour, of a gushing inventiveness. A show realized in collaboration with the Municipal Theatre "Ariel" from Râmnicu Vâlcea.   Translated by: Izabella Feher   

The famous actress Ilinca Tomoroveanu, the artistic director of the I. L. Caragiale National Theatre from Bucharest, will be awarded one of the highest distinctions offered by the Ministry of Culture and Communication from France - the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Frédéric Mitterand, the French minister of Culture and Communication mentions in the letter issued on 13th April 2012: "I address to you my most sincere congratulations for this distinction which rewards the efforts made over many years of hard work in favour of the French language and the Franco-Romanian cooperation." The reception and the official conferral of the title Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters will take place on Friday, 26th October 2012, at the French Institute from Bucharest, starting at 18.00.

The 22nd edition of NTF: 26th October - 4th November 2012, Bucharest The National Theatre Festival, the most important overlook of the representations produced in Romania within a season, has arrived at its 22nd edition. This edition will take place in the Capital city, from 26th October to 4th November, having, as usual, as the organizer the Theatric Union from Romania (UNITER), and as sponsors, the Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony and the Town Hall of the Municipality Bucharest, through ArCUB. The festival proposes again a thematic central pillar - this time, Silviu Purcărete's directorial work, one of the most famous artists from our days -, but it also centers, at the same time, on the two authors to whom UNESCO dedicated the year 2012: the Suede August Strindberg, commemorated 100 year after his passing, and our conational I. L. Caragiale, celebrated 160 years after his birth and mourned 100 years after his death. This year, the final selection brings to Bucharest 18 theatres (producers) and 32 representations grouped in 6 sections! For the representations hosted by the National Theatre from Bucharest, the tickets can be purchased at the Ticket Agency. You can look up the program in the section Calendar or What's on. Transleted by Feher Izabella

The famous actress Ilinca Tomoroveanu, the artistic director of the I. L. Caragiale National Theatre from Bucharest, will be awarded one of the highest distinctions offered by the Ministry of Culture and Communication from France - the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Frédéric Mitterand, the French minister of Culture and Communication mentions in the letter issued on 13th April 2012: "I address to you my most sincere congratulations for this distinction which rewards the efforts made over many years of hard work in favour of the French language and the Franco-Romanian cooperation." The reception and the official conferral of the title Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters will take place on Friday, 26th October 2012, at the French Institute from Bucharest, starting at 18.00. "I am very excited about my promotion to the rank of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. This distinction honours me and commits me. I have always had great admiration for the French culture, for French history and for the French people, which are profoundly linked to Romanian culture and history. I hope that in the future, together with the Romanian intellectuals and artists who are attached to the French culture, I can give again a helping hand to the good relationship between the two countries. With an impressive career in the Romanian theatre and film industry, Ilinca Tomoroveanu is part of that rare category of artists which the theatre needs like a gasp of air: devoted with passion and commitment to a belief. She grew up with a solid education typical to the Ardeal area. The granddaughter of the poet Octavian Goga, seemingly gifted by muses for theatre, had a high class education under the supervision of Costache Antoniu and his assistant, the director Ion Cojar. She performed under the prestigious directorial signatures various roles from the great Romanian dramaturgy (Barbu Delavrancea, Camil Petrescu, Alexandru Davila, Mihail Sorbul, Horia Lovinescu), but also from the world dramaturgy (Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Anouilh). Her creations emanate tenderness and sensibility and, in the same time, a mysterious force and a reserved drama, which were noticed from her debut. She had the chance to meet rich scores in memorable performances, under the baton of several great directors, belonging to different generations, from Sică Alexandrescu, Moni Ghelerter and Alexandru Finți - classics of the National Theatre's stage, to Horea Popescu, Ion Cojar, Sanda Manu, Cornel Todea, Mihai Berechet, Andrei Șerban, Victor Ioan Frunză and even the young Radu Afrim.  Ilinca Tomoroveanu's untiring activity in the Romanian theatre and film industry was rewarded with numerous distinctions and the recognition of her craft fellows. From 1999 she is a member in the UNITER senate. She was distinguished, in the year 2004, with the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Commander. She is the deputy artistic director of the National Theatre from Bucharest and, from 2005 to the present day, she continues to perform on the stages of the theatre to which she was dedicated from her debut.         Translated by: Izabella Feher   

The premiere of the coupé-show Two x Two will take place on Wednesday, the 17th October, at 19.30, at the NTB's Small Hall. The show is presented within the "Open doors for everybody" project, composed from the one-act theatre plays The Tiger by Murray Schisgal and The Lover by Harold Pinter, staged by the director Vlad Stănescu. You will meet again Maia Morgenstern and Mircea Rusu in passional roles in Pinter's text and you will discover new valences in Amalia Ciolan's and Marcelo S. Cobzariu's talent, who give life to the renowned play written by Murray Schisgal. 

The preview of the coupé-show Two x Two will take place on Wednesday, the 3rd October, at 19.30, at the NTB's Small Hall. The show is presented within the "Open doors for everybody" project, composed from the one-act theatre plays The Tiger by Murray Schisgal and The Lover by Harold Pinter, staged by the director Vlad Stănescu. You will discover two surprising love stories in an unseen equation and you will find out about the unsuspected faces of love which can take birth in the most unexpected circumstances, but also about how hard it is to keep passion alive. It is a bitter-sweet and at times spicy show, a true "amour's roll" in a modern version, in which success is guaranteed, firstly, by the actor's remarkable performance. You will meet again Maia Morgenstern and Mircea Rusu in passional roles in Pinter's text and you will discover new valences in Amalia Ciolan's and Marcelo S. Cobzariu's talent, who give life to the renowned play written by Murray Schisgal. Last but not least, the new premiere gives you the opportunity to meet again with the director Vlad Stănescu, whom we owe, among others, the amazing ballet of traps, the scenic-technical show that put forward the unique virtues of the NTB's great stage. The show's scenography is signed by Ioana Creangă, and the stage movement by Florin Fieroiu.     We remind you that the preview of the representation Two x Two will take place on Wednesday, 3rd October 2012, at 19.30, at the Small Hall. The official premiere is programmed for the 17th October 2012. We are looking forward to seeing you!                                                Translated by: Izabella Feher

On the evenings of Tuesday, 9th October and Wednesday, 10th October 2012, at 8 o' clock, at the National Theatre from Bucharest, the honourable I. L. Caragiale invites you, to the theatre of whose patron he is, for a double event. Both, the premiere of the show Lottery Tickets takes place, staged by Alexandru Dabija after the short story with the same name by I. L. Caragiale, and the official inauguration of the Small Hall. This is the first one of the new halls animated by the spirit of modernization in the midst of the Caragiale Year. But pay attention! The show's first meeting with the public, in the present season, will take place on the evenings of 6th and 7th October, at 8 o' clock. That is why we invite you to come running to the theatre's Ticket Agency, because it is a must! The director of the show, the renowned Alexandru Dabija, who sees enormously and feels monstrously, will make a moving demonstration about how we, the modern people, can imagine a classic writing. A different Caragiale, meaning, one in a dramatic reading that provokes tingles and emotions. The play is about hazard, luck and bad luck, about fatality that gains a perfidious physiognomy. Or, as the stage director would say, a Caragiale in its horror version, in that the drama graciously combines with black humour. Or, as we would say, what happens when the devil joins the game and makes fun of Romanians, of the poor...Lefter. Lefter Popescu, of course, at what else were you thinking, my dear ones? The representation is performed by talented artists, some who are already known by the public, and others who are new rays on the national art's horizon: Ana Ciontea, Corina Moise/Ilona Brezoianu, Eliza Păuna, Nicoleta Lefter/Valentina Zaharia, Gavril Pătru, Marius Manole,  Mădălin Mandin, Daniel Hara, Mihai Munteniţă, Eduard Cârlan/Axel Moustache, Ionuţ Toader, Dragoş Dumitru, Marcel Bălănescu. The costumes were made by Liliana Cenean, and the setting by the venerable Helmut Stürmer. The stage movement is lead by the tireless Florin Fieroiu, and the staging by Alexandru Dabija, a witty man with a distinguished education.   Translated by: Izabella Feher        

The "I. L. Caragiale" National Theatre announces the first representations of this season for the show Of Ours, on the 6th and 7th October 2012, at 20.00, at the Great Hall. This representation is a choreographic theatre show with typologies inspired from Caragiale's works, created by the renowned dancer and choreographer Gigi Căciuleanu. Up to this moment, the show from the National Theatre from Bucharest is the first memorable event from the "Caragiale Year". Once again, it is proven that Gigi Căciuleanu is a very valuable artist, who proposes us this time, a truly contemporary Caragiale (...), a unique show about our reality inspired from the immortal Caragiale. (Ileana Lucaciu, blog, 18 July 2012).   The tickets (60, 50, 40 and 20 lei) can be bought from the National Theatre's ticket agency.       Translated by: Izabella Feher