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As every year, in mid-September, the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre of Bucharest announces the season opening. The first shows are scheduled for the weekend of September 13th - 15th, 2019, and the tickets have been put up for sale online and at the Theatre’s box office.

Since the first weeks of the new season 2019-2020, some of the most appreciated performances of the repertoire will be seen. To the NTB stages shall return, one by one, titles that have reaped meaningful applause and appreciation, such as: "Exit the King", "All My Sons", "The Dinner Game", "The Idol and Ion Anapoda", "The Man Who Saw Death ", "Little Hell" , "Shadows", "Mouse Trap"," Titanic Orchestra ","The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", "Powder Keg", "Sentimental Tectonics", as well as the recent premieres: "The Nouveau Criminals", "The Door Mat", "Class", "50 Seconds".

In the next period, the summer season on the rooftop, from the Amphitheatre, unfolded throughout the summer season under the title Summer Nights, on the Theatre Rooftop, continues to seduce the spectators at late hours of warm and clear evenings, announcing shows until the end of September. After the theatre halls went on vacation, the audience retreated to the welcoming and comforting atmosphere of the theatre space above the Grand Hall, where these summer evenings were animated, for the first time after the NTB reconstruction and the inauguration of this new space, by theatre, music, dance or film. The Hop Young Actor’s Gala had a prologue here, through the premiere of the show On the Roof, a project coordinated by the exceptional artist Gigi Căciuleanu and welcomed with great enthusiasm by the public and critics.

In September, the performance based on the play, designated at the UNITER Awards Gala "The best Romanian play of the year 2017", 50 Seconds by Daniel Oltean, was invited to attend the Festival Days and Nights of Theatre in Braila.

Towards the end of September, one of the most recent premieres, production of the past season, the enactment of the play The Nouveau Criminals by Edna Mazia, will have two performances on the stage of the "Mihai Eminescu" Theatre in Kishinev, on the occasion of the Romanian National Theatres Reunion.

The NTB conferences will have a new format this autumn, being organized in October, in partnership with Dilema Veche, in November, with România literară and in December, with Revista 22. The first conference within the new season series is scheduled for September 29th, 2019.

Afterwards, in spring, the threshold of the 18th birthday having passed, the programme for children, the National Children's Theatre, co-produced by the Abracadabra Foundation and NTB, is preparing to commence the 19th season in which the youngest of the theatre spectators will continue the Theatre Game under the guidance of the beloved Magician of Stories, Marian Râlea and his team.

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre of Bucharest announces, for the new season, two enactments aftercornerstone titles of universal dramaturgy, under the signatures of two successful directors and with winning casts.

The first new enactment on the National stage for the autumn season is in an advanced stage of rehearsals, at which the Bulgarian director Alexander Morfov is working. With three previousNTB productions, The Visit, The Tempest and No Man's Land, a director with an internationally acclaimed originality, Morfov has returned to the Bucharest National Theatre for a new Shakespearean challenge. This time, his choice is the play The Merchant of Venice, with Ion Caramitru in the role of Shylock and with  Ada Galeș, Richard Bovnoczki, Alexandru Potocean, in other lead roles, assisted by an extensivecast. Sets: Gabi Albu, Costumes: Liliana Cenean, Choreography: Inga Krasovska, Light Design: Chris Jaeger.

Written at the end of the 16th century, "The Merchant of Venice" is still an extremely topical play about money, greed, love and inter-racial tensions, about discrimination and revenge. Shakespeare remains "our contemporary," as Jan Kott stated more than four decades ago.

The first performances are scheduled for September 18th and 19th, and the premiere on September 20th and 22th, 2019, at the Studio Hall.

Also in September, at NTB, the rehearsals for a new show will commence, directed by Radu Afrim. Three Sisters by AP Chekhov, to be premiered in December 2019.

The constantly updated information, schedule of shows and events held at NTB and all details about the various activities of the theatre, as well as new interactive communication possibilities and an online questionnaire open to viewers on the page Your Opinion can also be found during the new season on www.tnb.ro and on our social media pages.

So we are waiting for you to join us! The 2019-2020 Season opens at the National!

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu