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Sunday, 25th March, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Prof. Dr. Dorin Sarafolenu will hold a conference with the theme Voice, Language, Communication. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. The voice is the essential element of interpersonal communication. Four-fifths of communication is made through voice and speaking. Communication stands at the cradle of human and social evolution, from Homo Erectus to the modern societies. The development of the arts, sciences, thought and philosophy is a result of the interpersonal communication. Therefore, humans need communication. "I feel the need to share with others what I know in order not to be lonely" (Octavian Paler)

Tania Popa, the famous actress from Bucharest's National Theatre, invites us to the premiere of 'The Girl from the Rainbow'. A show based on a text written and staged especially for Tania by Lia Bugnar and enthusiastically accepted by the National Theatre within the program 'open doors for everybody'. 'Tania Popa is that actress that was accepted when she was 16 at the Theatre Faculty and everybody decided that she was a genius, remembers Lia Bugnar talented girl from Basarabia, surely. Afterwards we got used to her, she got used to herself too and...I don't know, it seems that the passing of time trimmed her rays. These days she will reappear in a show written and supervised by me...Now she makes it blossom in front of your windows and makes it fruit, and denude, and cuts back its branches in front of your eyes.(...) It is, possibly, the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time. Tania is more Tania than ever...she is like a punch in the stomach, she is like a jar of yogurt on the burned back of a stray in Sahara, she is like a peacock's feather fallen in the muddy tugs left by the wheel of a tractor, she is like the number from the arm of a surviving Jew, she is like a burst of laughter while you are still sad... Thus, the key words to remember are: Tania, the girl from the rainbow, The National, soon, terrifyingly beautiful.' quote from Lia Bugnaru's Facebook page. It should also be noted that Tania Popa is seconded with talent and elegance by Marian Hâncu, a young and gifted pianist. The official premiere will take place on Friday, 23rd March, at 20.00, at Studio 99, and the first representation for the public - Friday, 30th March, at 20.00, at the same familiar place situated at the ground floor of the Amphitheatre Hall.   Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University               

The official premiere will take place on Friday, 23rd March, at 20.00, at Studio 99, and the first representation for the public - Friday, 30th March, at 20.00, at the same familiar place situated at the ground floor of the Amphitheatre Hall. 'Tania Popa is that actress that was accepted when she was 16 at the Theatre Faculty and everybody decided that she was a genius, remembers Lia Bugnar talented girl from Basarabia, surely. Afterwards we got used to her, she got used to herself too and...I don't know, it seems that the passing of time trimmed her rays. These days she will reappear in a show written and supervised by me...Now she makes it blossom in front of your windows and makes it fruit, and denude, and cuts back its branches in front of your eyes.(...) quote from Lia Bugnaru's Facebook page. Details   

Sunday, 11th March, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Mircea Vasilescu will hold a conference on the theme Reading in the Internet Era. What is Lost and what is Gained. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. For some years, we hear and read that ‘culture is dying' or that ‘people do not read as much as they used to', and the Internet is considered to be one of the culprits. In fact, people read a lot on the Internet. The Internet also makes it possible for us to access books and libraries of which we did not even dream about. What and how do people read? In what way are our reading habits influenced and changed by the new technology?    Maybe the problem is not that ‘people read less', but that ‘people read different'.

Within the 3rd Edition of the Classic Flamenco and the New Genres Festival organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the Embassy of Spain in Romania (3 - 6 March 2012), at the Nartional Theatre's Great Hall will take place two exceptional dance and flamenco music shows: Solos with Belén Maya and La Shica with Elsa Rovayo in the evenings of 3rd and 4th March. 

Sunday February 26th, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Lucian Boia will hold a conference on the theme The intellectual elite of the 30's. A new perspective. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. ‘We would assume that the intellectual is most of all, a free man. That does not mean that he actually is. He is submitted, like everybody else, to the historical conjunctures and the ideological pressures. In a way or another, his career is independent of the ruling Power (even more in an authoritarian regime and, without a doubt, in a totalitarian one). Not few intellectuals, for that matter, have the fascination of Power; they feel stronger, sheltered in its shade. In any case, the intellectual has an ability: to find at any time arguments to justify everything and himself. Especially when he thinks that history has given its verdict. For the intellectual, the voice of history is irresistible.' Lucian Boia More details  

Sunday February 12th, at 11.00, at the National Theatre's Black Box,Ion Bulei will hold a conference on the theme: The Modern Romanian Political Elite. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. What is political elite? Is history a succession of elites or just a succession of generations? What was the geopolitical frame of the Romanian political elite's emergence and what was the evolution of this elite from 1848 to the present day? Who are the people that form the elite? In what circumstances becomes P.P. Carp's affirmation from 1918 real, according to which ‘Romania is so lucky that it does not need authorities? And what about the nowadays protesters' affirmation from the National Theatre's square: Lost political class. I declare it void? Ion Bulei

Starting with Monday, January 16th , the collection of DVDs with recordings of the NTB Conferences can also be bought from the Humanitas Bookshops in the entire country. The price of a DVD is 25 lei. As a premiere, a part of these conferences, with unique recordings of the discourses held by important names of the contemporary Romanian culture, will also be available to the ones who are interested on the shelves of the Humanitas bookshops. These are conferences held, among others, by Neagu Djuvara, Lucia Hossu Longin, Dan C. Mihăilescu, Radu Beligan, Theodor Baconsky, Ion Caramitru, Ion Vianu, Andrei Pleşu, Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, Adrian Vasilescu, Ana Blandiana, Herta Müller, Theodor Paleologu, Sorin Alexandrescu, Solomon Marcus, Horia Roman Patapievici şi Cristian Bădiliţă. Similar to rare books, these DVDs will become in the future, real collection items for the ones who had the chance to buy them in time. The integral collection can still be found at the National Theatre's Ticket Agency.

Sunday January 29th, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, the conference on the theme Europe's Destiny will be held by Andrei Marga. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.          The conference resumes the question about the destiny of Europe and its rationalities. The distance is taken from Spengler and Keyserling. Nowadays, the destiny is being split in a batch of alternatives - arguments Andrei Marga. The conference clears up, as a premise for their establishment, the European identity (proposing the ‘generative concept'), ‘the sources' (Europe's major ‘inheritances'), it evokes Europe's present difficulties and the current diagnostics (‘the postmodern society', ‘the society of void', ‘the civic society', ‘the society of risk', ‘the society of communication', ‘the society of knowledge', ‘the invisible society', ‘the post secular society', ‘the infantile society', ‘the society of indifference', ‘the uncertain society'). Andrei Marga explains Europe's destiny as a result of the intermingling of alternatives in 5 crucial points: the reassuming of democracy not only as an election technique, but also as a ‘life style', the reconstruction of the social state, the reassuming of Europe's characteristic values, understanding of sciences in the context of genesis and application and theming of senses. Europe's destiny depends on a cultural anamnesis and intellectual innovations, fit for a profoundly changed world. 

The ‘I.L.Caragiale' National Theatre is in the full process of rebuilding and renovating on several levels. These days, discussions are held about the implementation of an own online ticketing system for selling and reservation of tickets for the shows. We apologize for all the inconveniences we have caused our spectators in this matter and we hope that in a near future we can put at your disposition this modern system of ticket selling. For the moment, ticket reservations can be made at all theatre shows, with the exception of The Dinner Game. The reservations can be made up to three days before the day of the performance and are valid for 48 hours. If the tickets have not been bought in this interval, the reservation is cancelled. The unsold tickets can be bought directly from the Ticket Agency. At the Ticket Agency's telephone number (021 - 314 71 71) four persons are present to answer your phone calls during the opening hours (10.00 - 19.00). Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University