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The First NTB Premiere, Directed by Bobi Pricop

After the triumph of the multi-awarded show The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, young director Bobi Pricop returns to the „I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest, to the same Painting Hall, releasing in national premiere the play UFO of one of the most gifted and enacted young Russian playwrights, Ivan Vyrypaev, in the inspired translation of Mașa Dinescu.
Using simultaneous projections on manifold surfaces, 3D virtual media 3D (built by Paul Spike), live-video (coordinated by Tudor Panduru), an inventive scenic and technical construction (Paul Popescu and Mizdan) and the original score of Alexei Țurcan, the show UFO tells the stories of people who were in contact with alien civilisations. The confessions of these events are tackled with clarity, authenticity and humour, blending virtual truths with practical revelations and thus becoming the surprising show of the encounter between technology and emotion, between art and digital programming, between the innovations rebuilding theatre and the truths which have always defined it.
The storytelling mechanisms employed in the show rely on state-of-the-art technology integrated in a dramaturgy of the natural, in a hi-tech artistic installation of emotions expressed at several levels, at all levels of life, perception and reality. An enactment breaking its own conventions, turning reality into the supreme artifice, and the soul into performance.
UFO is the show – experience which we need when we forget about ourselves due to the surrounding noise, but also a game of docu–mystification, with green humanoids, alien civilisations and the peace of a cloudless morning.
The cast of the show (in the order of appearance on stage): Ada Galeș, Istvan Teglaș, Ciprian Nicula, Mihai Călin, Raluca Aprodu, Medeea Marinescu, Ion Caramitru.
The first representations: 15th and 16th September 2017, from 8.00 p.m., in the Painting Hall.
The official premiere shall take place on Sunday, 17th September 2017, 8.00 p.m.
Tickets: at the NTB box office, as well as online, on www.mystage.ro.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu