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On Sunday, November 6th, 2011, starting with 11:00, at The Amphitheatre Hall from The National Theatre of Bucharest there will be held the conference A day of your life on the time of King Carol I, by Adrian Majuru. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. "Destiny is the place and moment of your birth". Some call this chance. Let us descend into this free will maze and imagine what it would have been like a day of our life a hundred years ago, during the reign of King Carol I. Of course that there can be many details regarding our position in this story: high society or middle class; guest of honor or master of ceremonies. However we suggest the position of a random onlooker who enjoys the privilege of living beside a family a hundred years ago. We are left with the traces of this lost world that we can follow and the atmosphere where we can get into. We have the pictures but mostly we have the ability to travel, to understand and accept the reality of a comparison. Our meeting offers you the opportunity to step across such a threshold, not at all imaginary even though the appearances say something else. I invite you to join me into the story of a question: "what it would have been like to live a day in 1900?" A possible answer was given by the German writer Ernst Junger: "Know the boundaries where illusion and reality can replace each other!" The journey will be accompanied by the music of cellist Adrian Naidin.  

On Sunday, October 23th, starting with 11 a.m., at The Black Box from NTB there will be held the conference entitled: Elegant pomp and Occidental democracy in the Romanian apparel from the 19th century by Adrian-Silvan Ionescu. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. ‘The Romanian States, situated at the border between the Occident and the Orient, have been under a strong influence from both sides. They could be felt the strongest at the beginning of the 19th century. The struggle between the status of the fanariot ruler's pompous garbs and the lack of status, the naturalization and the standardization of the ‘democratic garment' - the tailcoat or the black frock coat (also popularly called ‘German clothes') give measure to the major changes from the urban Romanian society. The conference proposes to describe, in detail, the garb of the high society as well as that of the common people during an entire century, from the modernization to the assimilation in the great European fashion trend.' Adrian-Silvan Ionescu

On Sunday, October 9th, starting with 11 a.m., at The Black Box from NTB there will be held the conference entitled: The matter out of which life is made. About waiting by Carmen Muşat. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. "This waiting would probably be the most appropriate equivalent for ‘existence'. The waiting is not just a temporary stage of our existence, it is the essence itself of our human condition, it is not an accident but the substance itself of our life. From the moment we are born till the end of our lives, we are always waiting something or someone: starting with common situations - like that of waiting to have our coffee brought in a bar - and ending with key moments like the confirmation of a diagnostic or the result of an exam, we are waiting for an event to happen. Because it connects the anteriority to the posteriority, the waiting can be perceived only in time; it is determined by and included in time. Because of that the waiting sets the narration, its structure is essentially narrative and the suspense is an implicit element of the waiting". Carmen Muşat

Starting with October 17th, the shows that last for less than 2 hours are going to start at 20:00 and the other ones at 19:30. Thank you for your understanding!

Due to some technical difficulties, the show The End of the Beginning scheduled for October 7th has been suspended. The tickets are still valid for the October 8th show or you can have your money back from the Ticketing Agency at the national Theatre of Bucharest, between October 7 and 17, 2011. We apologize for the inconvenience!   Translated by: Oana Marina Silişte MA Student, MTTLC, University of Bucharest

On Sunday, September 25th, starting with 11 a.m., at The Black Box from NTB there will be held the first conference of the new season: "Chances lost, chances grasped" by Nicolae Raţiu. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. "Ion Raţiu did his part of sowing the seeds of the future. It's a shame that in some cases only now does Romania reap the benefits. Maybe than, immediately after the revolution, the time was not right but I am grateful to my father for having kept on fighting and never turning his back to his people and country. I am grateful because after fifty years of exile he has dedicated his final ten years, spent in Romania, still to the present and future of his country. I like to believe that no matter where he may be, my father smiles now, knowing that his heritage is being perpetuated and that Romanian people do remember him dearly as ‘the best president that Romania did not have' ". Nicolae Raţiu

Sunday, the 25th  of September, at 11:00, you are invited at the opening of the Children's National Theatre's 11th season, in Hall 99 (the entrance is at the Amphitheatre Hall, next to the ticket agency) of the Bucharest National Theatre. The Children's National Theatre invites you to Reconstruct Fairytales. Along with the rehabilitation of the TNB, that will soon have a new look, a new architectonic appearance. Between the falsework that surrounds the National Theatre, in the whirl of the craftsmen who are in a hurry to rebuild the emblematic building of the Romanian Theatre, the Fairytale Magician, the Good Fairy and their assistant actors have lost the Book of Immortal Fairytales. The Magician has lost his top hat that helps him remember the fairytales! The summer vacation was a real nightmare for Magi, because he could remember only parts of fairytales. If you want to help him, come on Sunday the 25th of September, at 11:00, to the Bucharest National Theatre's Hall 99! Together with the Fairytale Magician, we will Reconstruct the immortal fairytales! Please do not get scared of the TNB building's outside look! If you cannot find the room, you can look for the colour spot of the curtain that will flap for you, dear children. The coloured curtain will be the definite signal that the Magician is expecting you in the TNB's Hall 99. We Reconstruct the Immortal Fairytales together with you, dear children!   

The Bucharest National Theater's show, No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre was performed on the 8th of September 2011, at the opening of the "Risto Šiškov" International Festival of Chamber Theatre, in Macedonia. The festival from Strumica is dedicated to the memory of a very important figure of the Macedonian entertainment, Risto Šiškov, and to the performance artistry. It gained its notoriety along the eighteen editions, at the beginning on a local plan, and afterwards in the Balkan area too.   At this high-class cultural event, that took place between 8-13.09.11, also participated: "Ivan Vazov" National Theatre from Sofia, The "Ivan Radoev" Theatre from Plevna (Bulgaria), the "Joakim Vujić" Theatre from Kraguievac (Serbia), The "Sartr" Theatre from Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina), The "Dodona" Theatre from Pristina, The Drama Theatre from Skopje, The Turkish Theatre from Skopje, The "Voidan Chernodrinski" Theatre from Prilep (Republic of Macedonia), The National Theatre from Bitola (Republic of Macedonia) and The "Anton Panov" Theatre from Strumica. The Romanian Embassy from Skopje sent the management of the National Theatre from Bucharest a congratulatory letter for the remarkable participation and also some outstanding impressions about the quality of the performance and originality of the enactment. In this letter it is mentioned: "The critics and the audience that participated at the drama show No Exit in Strumica have remarked, all in the same key, the exceptional original directorial enactment realized by Mircea Anca, as well as the remarkable artistic performance  of the actors that participated in the play: Constantin Dinulescu, Carmen Ionescu and Iuliana Moise. The remarkable interpretation was appreciated, especially because of the extremely suggestive manner in that the Romanian actors managed to give life, extremely natural and with an outstanding talent, to the very intensive interior emotions of the extremely complex characters created by J. P. Sartre: Joseph Garcin, Inès Serrano and Estelle Rigault". In the discussions held by the representative of our diplomatic mission at the inaugural evening of the "International Festival of Chamber Theatre" with Zoran Zaev, the mayor of the Strumica municipality and Vanco Ristov - Patrikov, the director of this cultural manifestation of tradition in the Balkan area, the interlocutors accentuated the exceptional value of the Romanian classic and contemporary dramatic art that enjoys a high appreciation on an international scale, at this festival and they stressed, at the same time, the excellent artistic performance of the TNB team.'   Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University

The National Theatre of Bucharest announces that the last performances of the present season, at the headquarters in Bălcescu Bld., are to be held on Sunday, June 12th, 2011. After this date - earlier than usual, in order to give way to the reconstruction works- the theatre will be closed until autumn. We hope that at the opening of the next season – 2011-2012, the I. L. Caragiale National Theatre will welcome its public into the first of the newest halls that will be put into use during the ongoing reconstruction project!

The National Theatre of Bucharest announces that the last performances of the present season, at the headquarters in Bălcescu Bld., are to be held on Sunday, June 12th, 2011. After this date - earlier than usual, in order to give way to the reconstruction works- the theatre will be closed until autumn. Apart from the shows at the headquarters, the actors from the National Theatre of Bucharest are going to perform in the play The Avalanche by Tuncer CücenoÄŸlu, directed by Radu Afrim, on June 10th during the International Theatre Festival in Varna (Bulgaria). On Monday, June 13th, the last shows of the NTB performances are to be performed, on tour: The Dinner GameThe Suicide at Brașov. at Pitești and For this last week of the current season, you can still buy tickets at the Ticket Agencyfor the following shows: The Queen Mother, The Suicide, Cat Ladder, The End of the Beginning, It's Still All Right, Coming Clean, The National Theatre for Children and Modern Solo Piano as a last event during the NTB Paratheatre program, a recital by the Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft on Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at 19:00 Despite the entire reconstruction site that actually shakes the walls of the theatre, the preparing activity for the next season is fully initiated: a season that will bring new shows, promising distributions and prestigious directors. The great Bulgarian theatre director, Aleksandr Morfov, (whose show Exiles was  performed at NTB a year ago) has begun the rehearsals for the show The Visit, a well-known play by the Swiss dramatist, Friedrich Dürrenmatt; the premiere will take place in the first part of the next season. Among the members of the ongoing distribution, we can only mention the main character - Maia Morgenstern - the whole list is to be made public before the end of the present season. The stage director of the show that is going to be performed in the Great Hall is the Bulgarian scenographer.       Another play that is being prepared is a reference play for the interwar Romanian theatre: Omul cu mârțoaga by George Ciprian, directed by Anca Bradu. For another interesting project, the play The Boy in the Last Row by the Spanish dramatist Juan Mayorga, the director Cristian Theodor Popescu invites young actors (even very young ones) to audition on June 9th and 10th, 2011 for the leading male parts.  We hope that at the opening of the next season - 2011-2012, the I. L. Caragiale National Theatre will welcome its public into the first of the newest halls that will be put into use during the ongoing reconstruction project!