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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 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. 

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  

The theatre's doors was open to the public with new representations and with numerous nice surprises: the new Small Hall, with the exhibition hall which is pertained to it, the Multimedia Hall and the NTB Gallery will be inaugurated. The new halls, with ultramodern facilities, have multiple functionalities and a variable geometry, which allows the staging of various representations. Within the NTB Paratheatre - visual arts programme, the theatre's new modernised exhibition halls will be inaugurated in October 2012: the famous art critique Dan Hăulică will vouch an ample exhibition in the exhibition hall pertained to the new Small Hall, and the new NTB Gallery, situated on the theatre's ground floor, will host a splendid artistic photography exhibition, on the theme "Jugendstil in Romania", by Dr. Peter Schubert (Vienna, Austria), organized in cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute of Vienna.     

The temporary access to the Small Hall is made through the streets from behind the theatre - through Str. Dr. Dimitrie Gerota for those who come from Blvd. Carol (from Rosetti Square or the Metro station, the National Theatre exit) or through Str. Batiştei. Translated by: Izabella Feher

The National Theatre from Bucharest announces the premiere of the representation The Letter after "A lost Letter" by I.L. Caragiale, in a personal reading, the mark of Horaţiu Mălăele! This performance is the first premiere of the season 2012-2013 and is part of the works dedicated to the great playwright whom the National Theatre supports through the Caragiale Year 2012. The first representations take place on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th September 2012, at 20.00, at the Great Hall. The show's cast, full of surprises, is extraordinary: Mircea Rusu (Tipătescu), Horaţiu Mălăele (Dandanache), Virgil Ogăşanu (Trahanache), Mihai Constantin (Caţavencu), Alexandru Bindea (The drunken citizen), Raluca Petra / Victoria Dicu (Zoe), Marius Rizea (Farfuridi), Eduard Adam (Brânzovenescu), Marcelo S. Cobzariu (Pristanda). Scenography: Maria Miu. Music: Răzvan Diaconu. Each generation has its own version of performance, which talks in their name, and Mălăele's Letter is our show. It is the show of the people who live in our days, who exchanged "the lost letters" with e-mails, short messages and Facebook posts. A pure Mălăele show!   Translated by: Izabella Feher

Arrived in Bucharest at the beginning of this month, the famous dancer and choreographer Gigi Căciuleanu is intensely rehearsing with his young dance-actors, members of the "Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company", the choreographic creation called Of ours, built on typologies inspired from Caragiale's works. The scenography is made by Corina Grămoşteanu and the music by Dj Vasile. Music "seasoned with Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi and others", inserts "meant to generalize the characters' behaviour" - as the author himself and the director Gigi Căciuleanu specify in an interview made by Gabriela Lupu for 'România Liberă'. The show is planned to have the premiere on the 15th June 2012 at the NTB's Great Hall. It is produced in association with the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre (under the patronage of the "Ion Sava" Research and Theatrical Creation Centre) and with the Art Production Foundation, with the help of JTI and the National Library.

The name Tudor Gheorghe is the expression of the authentic chant. He is an assiduous researcher of the Romanian folklore, who studied at the Institute of Folklore from Bucharest. Tudor Gheorghe is a singular apparition in the search of Romanian originality: his shows are inspired from the old Romanian ballads, from Ion Luca Caragiale's work and from the enchantment of Lucian Blaga's, Tudor Arghezi's and Ion Barbu's poems. He is a unique artist, charming and always surprising, with an audience that is definitively mesmerized by the fascination of his chant. On the 18th June, at the Grand Hall of Bucharest's National Theatre, Tudor Gheorghe will hold a pro bono concert within the national campaign "Artists for artists". The ticket prices are 80, 60 or 40 lei and can be bought from the NTB's ticket agency. All the profits will go to the special constituted fund. Initiated and organized since 2002, the National Campaign "Artists for artists" is a stimulant of solidarity within the craft, a financial resort for older artists who have living problems and a signal for the public and the authorities regarding their situation and their dignity.       Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University

H.E. Mr. Oliver Grogan, Ambassador of Ireland to Romania is delighted to announce the first celebration of "Bloomsday in Bucharest" which will take place in Piaţa Valter Mărăcineanu (outside The James Joyce Pub) on Saturday 16 June 2012 @ 5.00pm. This unique cultural event celebrates the work of the Irish writer James Joyce. Bloomsday is celebrated around the world every year on 16 June. This is the day on which the action in James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses. The novel follows the life and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and a host of other characters throughout the day of 16 June 1904.