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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  

Sunday, 15th January, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, will take place a conference with the title Eminescu among us, held by Acad. Dimitrie Vatamaniuc. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. Held on the same day on which the national poet was born, the conference will mark the most important events from Romanian culture: the existence of the definitive Mihai Eminescu edition (11 volumes), and the publication of Eminescu's facsimiled manuscripts, under the coordination of the Acad. Eugen Simion.

One of the most beautiful recitals dedicated to Eminescu will be part of the permanent repertoire of the ‘I. L. Caragiale' National Theatre beginning with January 2012. The recital will be performed by the actor Ion Caramitru, a matchless interpreter of Eminescu's verse, together with the famous clarinetist Aurelian Octav Popa. The first representation will take place on Saturday, 14 January 2012, at 20:00, at the NTB's Black Box, in the eve of the great poet's birthday. Under the title Longing for Eminescu*, the two artists, dialoguing in an unseen scenic formula, in that the spoken word is completed by music, present a show built on the selection of the great poet's poetry, prose and philosophy manuscripts. In Summer 2011 the recital Longing for Eminescu was successfully presented in the United States of America and Canada (a tour realized under the aegis of ICR New York) demonstrating, if necessary, that poetry has audience, that Eminescu is a vivid poet, and his poetry, always fresh.     * A show realized in coproduction with UNITER.               Translated by: Izabella Feher  MTTLC, Bucharest University

One of the most beautiful recitals dedicated to Eminescu will be part of the permanent repertoire of the ‘I. L. Caragiale' National Theatre beginning with January 2012. The recital will be performed by the actor Ion Caramitru, a matchless interpreter of Eminescu's verse, together with the famous clarinetist Aurelian Octav Popa. The first representation will take place on Saturday, 14 January 2012, at 20:00, at the NTB's Black Box, in the eve of the great poet's birthday. Under the title Longing for Eminescu*, the two artists, dialoguing in an unseen scenic formula, in that the spoken word is completed by music, present a show built on the selection of the great poet's poetry, prose and philosophy manuscripts. The recital represents, at the same time, a rare occasion to hear a high quality Romanian language, a necessary exercise in our days... ‘The majority of Eminescu's work was in his famous chaste with which he was travelling wherever he moved and in which he was carrying his notebooks and his notations, and which now, finally, was published with the help of a digital system, facsimiled by the Romanian Academy. I confess that I had a fundamental participation at this process, during my mandate at the Ministry of Culture'. Ion Caramitru ‘The style of my musical contribution at this show imagined by Ion Caramitru is of a symphonic type and it is like a window towards poetry. It is not an illustration but a particular discourse. The arts are vain, they do not resemble one another, but they can meet if they reach that superior level of joined happiness.' Aurelian-Octav Popa In Summer 2011 the recital Longing for Eminescu was successfully presented in the United States of America and Canada (a tour realized under the aegis of ICR New York) demonstrating, if necessary, that poetry has audience, that Eminescu is a vivid poet, and his poetry, always fresh. * A show realized in coproduction with UNITER.               Translated by: Izabella Feher  MTTLC, Bucharest University

Monday, the 19th December, Johann Strauss Ensemble will end their Romanian tour with the concert Strauss Forever from the Great Hall of the Bucharest National Theatre. The Johann Strauss Ensemble is probably the most loved Austrian orchestra by our country's audience, as a proof stand the tens of sold out concerts they had in the already traditional Christmas tour that they undertake for 6 years in Romania. The tickets prices vary between 20 and 200 lei.            

Sunday, the 18th December, at 11:00, in the National Theatre's Black Box, a conference will take place on the theme: The Heartbeats' Story held by Prof. Dr. Eduard Apetrei. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. About the conference "The heart, through its beats, applauds our existence, said Lucian Blaga. The heartbeats represent the heart's way to communicate with the entire body, through a certain language which is being decoded nowadays. The first rhythm we hear is produced in our intrauterine life and it is the rhythm of the mother's heart. This rhythm is retained in our subconsciousness and is deposited in a certain part of the brain, this is the rhythm that will later on influence in some way or another our evolution. Along the history, the heartbeats were interpreted in various ways. Today it is known that the number of heartbeats, in our entire lifetime, is genetically determined. If the heart beats slower (55 - 65 beats/minute) we have the chance to live longer". Prof.Dr. Eduard Apetrei

On Sunday, December 4th, Daniel Cristea-Enache, will hold a conference called "A lecturer ends to be a haulier: the Ion D. Sîrbu case" at the National Theatre of Bucharest in the The Black Box. The conference will also have a video projection made by the artist Ion Barbu. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei and 10 lei.    About the conference "Ion D. Sîrbu is the Romanian post war writer with the most spectacular posthumous career. He died in 1989, two months before the revolution. As opposed to other Romanian writers, his drawer was full of manuscripts, among which The journal of a journalist without a journal (Jurnalul unui jurnalist fără jurnal) and Farwell, Europe! (Adio, Europa!) Ion D. Sîrbu was the model of Victor Petrini, the protagonist from Marin Preda's The Most Beloved of Earthling. The two characters have a similar destiny: they start from a carrer in university, they are kept prisoners for political beliefs and then they return to working on lower positions Petrini starts working with the team clearing of rats and Sîrbu becomes a haulier. For the vigilant eyes of the political activists, political instructors and informers back then, Ion D. Sîrbu was a case. They were right" Daniel Cristea-Enache

Sunday 20th November, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, a conference will take place with the theme: A lifetime together with Romanian literature held by Georgeta Dimisianu. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. "I will not hold a conference, in the common sense of the word. Too many conferences, too many symposiums in the last 20 years. I would like to bring some evidence about an epoch which risks to be more and more misunderstood, about a world in that I lived - the literary world -, about the writers that I have met and that I have edited, about their books that made us, as one of them said, understand that no dictatorship is perfect". Georgeta Dimisianu

The official opening night of the show ‘The Man and His Old Crock' by George Ciprian will take place on Wednesday, 23rd November 2011, at 20:00, at the Amphitheatre Hall of the ‘I.L. Caragiale' National Theatre from Bucharest. This is the second opening night of the current season. It is about one of the best known comedies of the Romanian inter-war dramaturgy, a mix of satire, idealism and gravity, in that the hero, a decent town clerk, inflamed by the passion for horses and, among them, by the most deplorable old crock. Fanatically believe in your dream, screams G. Ciprian's character after a few years, like a Don Quixote of the last century. Nowadays, in a world that does not believe in miracles anymore, but needs them so much, G. Ciprian's hero is the symbol of a humble humanity that is victorious through the force of an exemplary destiny, and his old crock continues to affect us, with its joints as flexible as at the opening night from 1927. We propose you a meeting full of charm and colour, with yesterday's world and that of today, always split between people of good and bad faith, in dreamers and Pharisees, with various faces and many masks, in which it might be that it is not the coat that makes the man, but in which money surely brings unexpected fame. A scenic life is given to this world, under the directing guidance of Anca Bradu, by the actors: Daniel Badale, Ioan Andrei Ionescu, Gavril Pătru, Monica Davidescu, Raluca Petra, Marius Bodochi, Andrei Finţi, Mihai Verbiţchi, Bogdan Muşatescu, Magdalena Cernat / Amalia Ciolan , Ion Ionuţ Ciocia. The scenography is signed by Ştefania Cenean, and the music for the show was composed by Vlaicu Golcea. Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University