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Breaking News
by Mihail Sebastian
Breaking News
by Mihail Sebastian
Premiere: 13.05.2003
Last performance: 14.05.2009
Duration: 2 h 30 min / Pause: Yes
A teacher on a romantic quest, following in the footsteps of Alexandru Macedon, finds himself in the jungle of the interwar Romanian press. Through the clash between two diametrically opposed worlds, Mihail Sebastian manages to build a racy satire. A conquering love story, amid an unscrupulous world, not very different from the one we inhabit.
The powerful businessman Grigore Bucşan is preparing a big financial hit in the field of cereals. To achieve his goal, he corrupts ministers, bribes journalists, manipulates destinies. Coincidentally, however, he intersects his social trajectory with the modest, honest, and dreamy history teacher Alexandru Andronic, fascinated not by money, not by power but by ... Alexander the Great. What other end than a real "coup de theatre" can such an encounter have, when a beautiful woman intervenes between the two?
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
“Breaking News has an exquisite cast in which Mircea Albulescu, Gheorghe Dinică, Claudiu Bleonţ, Marin Moraru and Ilinca Goia demonstrate once again the professionalism and perfect talent of the true stars and values of the Bucharest National.
Breaking News is a realistic theatre show, designed with modernity, of great resonance for today's news, a show that must be watched, because it offers a real joy to any drama lover. "
Ileana Lucaciu - Timpul liber
“A show like a news report, as the director states. Sebastian's interwar Bucharest, seen through the eyes of the press, intellectuals, politicians, and bankers, is like two peas in a pod as nowadays. The performance is modern, filled with dynamism, but observing the spirit of the time and of Sebastian's writing. (...) As for the "kings", that is, the actors, they are up to the mark."
Irina Budeanu - ABC
"Negotiations" worthy of the "blackmail and floor" tradition, sales and purchases on fabulous amounts thrown like at a poker game, to bar the truth from being revealed, well-oiled corruption mechanisms, more elegant and brutal manipulations, arranged "scandals" and "mediated" in anticipation - all this sounds terribly familiar (...). Until more bitter thoughts, the spectators express their joy to watch the new staging. This was also proved by the multitude of applause that accompanied the characters' retorts or departures and satisfying laughter - when candour, ingenuity seem more effective than shark vigour and the elasticity of scums (and therefore good overcomes evil, paradoxically). ). At least at the theatre!”
Natalia Stancu - Curierul National
"Anca Ovanez Doroșenco achieves a staging of a modern, comic and serious classicism, which is followed with pleasure. This impression amplifies the strong and elaborate performance of the actors. The implosive direction of Anca Ovanez Doroșenco is invigorating for both masters and young people.
(...) A revelation is the performance of llinca Goia in Magda, with seductive transitions from the angelic, exalted, and voluntary face to the lucid and calculated “vamp.” The actress is a master of ceremonies in the show, endowed with beauty and sensuality.
Breaking News announces a long-running success of the National Theatre, a highlight of 2003 ".
Ludmila Patlanjoglu, Cotidianul, 2.06.2003
"Out of all the variants we have seen thus far, the one signed by Anca Ovanez Doroșenco is clearly the wittiest.
(...) The game of confusions generates a vigorous humour, orchestrated by the triumvirate Albulescu- Dinica-Moraru and taken to the heights of refinement ".
Gabriela Hurezean, Național, 2003
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu