Shows

Launched in May 2021 at the "Ion Sava" Theatre Research and Creation Centre, the Playwriting Workshop, coordinated by playwright and screenwriter Mimi Branescu, will conclude with a series of reading performances under the title First Draft. There will be 9 theatre plays presented that resulted from the workshop. The authors of these texts are: Adelina Toma, Adriana Bordeanu, Ana Crețu, Carla-Maria Teaha, Cosmin Teodor Pană, Oana Jindiceanu, Ștefan Iancu, Tomi Cristin, Vlad Moszojanu. The reading performances will take place on March 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Hall of NTB. Admission is free.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

Launched in May 2021 at the "Ion Sava" Theatre Research and Creation Centre, the Playwriting Workshop, coordinated by playwright and screenwriter Mimi Branescu, will conclude with a series of reading performances under the title First Draft. There will be 9 theatre plays presented that resulted from the workshop. The authors of these texts are: Adelina Toma, Adriana Bordeanu, Ana Crețu, Carla-Maria Teaha, Cosmin Teodor Pană, Oana Jindiceanu, Ștefan Iancu, Tomi Cristin, Vlad Moszojanu. The reading performances will take place on March 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Hall of NTB. Admission is free.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

Launched in May 2021 at the "Ion Sava" Theatre Research and Creation Centre, the Playwriting Workshop, coordinated by playwright and screenwriter Mimi Branescu, will conclude with a series of reading performances under the title First Draft. There will be 9 theatre plays presented that resulted from the workshop. The authors of these texts are: Adelina Toma, Adriana Bordeanu, Ana Crețu, Carla-Maria Teaha, Cosmin Teodor Pană, Oana Jindiceanu, Ștefan Iancu, Tomi Cristin, Vlad Moszojanu. The reading performances will take place on March 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Hall of NTB. Admission is free.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

Launched in May 2021 at the "Ion Sava" Theatre Research and Creation Centre, the Playwriting Workshop, coordinated by playwright and screenwriter Mimi Branescu, will conclude with a series of reading performances under the title First Draft. There will be 9 theatre plays presented that resulted from the workshop. The authors of these texts are: Adelina Toma, Adriana Bordeanu, Ana Crețu, Carla-Maria Teaha, Cosmin Teodor Pană, Oana Jindiceanu, Ștefan Iancu, Tomi Cristin, Vlad Moszojanu. The reading performances will take place on March 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Hall of NTB. Admission is free.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

”The cybernetic bombing to which we are subjected systematically has irreparable consequences on the memory, senses and human relationships. The speed of communication thus becomes much more important when we are talking about people’s capacity to connect. Love and Information aims at conveying the pulse of a world in a continuous exchange of information and especially at immortalising the changes these things inflict on the individuals through situations and relationships pushed to the edge of the absurd. The show can be defined as a theatrical installation blending theatre with elements of performance art, dance and video art.” Irina Crăiță-Mândră Translated by Simona Nichiteanu   Sponsors                                          Details   

The Girl Soldier is a story for all ages and all times, bearing the scent of childhood since time immemorial. The world seen through the eyes of a 9-year-old girl is filled with candour and unpredictable like a serious game of life and death. The show is composed as a childish puzzle from the memories about Grandmother, the main character of this Cosmos, the mistress of games and owner of all small and big questions in the universe. Grandmother means childhood, the world, life. This is why she is not allowed to disappear and little Ami decides to save her grandmother from death, training an entire army of soldiers in her defense… A one woman show – with two interpretations (Silvana Mihai and Cristina Juncu) –, powerful, sensitive, humorous, contemporary in terms of message and approach, where psychological realism may reach abysmal depths. A show which, with the delicacy of innocence, raises necessary questions about life, death, society, education, tolerance.   Details  

Eden talks about loneliness in the couple and the despair caused by the lack of trust in oneself and in the other, about the orgies of boredom born from this despair. Apparently, a simple story, namely a he and a she, each one with his/ her thoughts, with his/ her projection on incipient love and the current lack of attraction, but especially, with the drama of the marriage bed. She is fat and believes that this has caused the chasm between them. She starts turning into who she was when they met, he observes, but cannot help it or does not wish to escape the mirage of erotic phantasies and unrequited desires. An intoxicating world swarms around them, among parties, alcohol, sex… in a paradoxical night of self-awareness. Eden is a comedy on the tragedy of loneliness or the tragedy of people becoming ridiculously lonely, because they have chosen to live together. “Eden is a show about loneliness. Loneliness as a disease of the human soul. Billy and Breda are the prisoners of their own loneliness. Although a couple, they live their lives separately, without communicating, without opening up to each other, without love, without mystery. They are becoming a contemporary Adam and Eve, inhabitants of an obsolete paradise in which they drown as time passes, haunted by dreams, phantasies and memories, sinking into their own platitude”, explained director Cristina Giurgea. Eden is the fruit of the collaboration between the Irish Embassy (who has given a grant to a master student for enacting an Irish text), the “I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts of Bucharest and NTB (through the “Ion Sava” Centre for Theatrical Research and Creation).   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu   Details  

"Europe Hotel is about the clash between two worlds, that of the Byzantines - (Eastern Europeans), knocking on Europe’s doors from the desire to escape the terror they are experiencing and manifesting itself under many forms and on several levels and the Well-to-Do World of Western Europe, respectively. Seven scenes in which we encounter the characters in their own, self-created purgatory – a drunken patriot, a whore, young people run away from home on their honeymoon, etc.  The show builds around our relationships as people (as citizens of Eastern Europe) with Western Europe. It aims at answering the following questions: How did Western Europe help me personally?, What did it provide to me as individual? and How am I regarded in Europe? - Andrei Raicu    Translated by Simona Nichițeanu   Details  

Building on a joke, After Hours develops a dialogue of the absurd superficiality surrounding us, into a scenic discourse about communication or its absence, about loneliness or refuge. A simple story, highlighting through bursts of laughter, small or big life issues. One night, two men meet in a bar… They are drinking, joking, telling stories. An encounter like any other between two people having nothing in common. Until alcohol or despair pushes them towards confessions. Jealousy, hidden plans, adultery, depression… And a twist of fate… like in life! The two are not complete strangers to each other and the encounter was premeditated. “We communicate more and more "poorly" by using the same verbal "crutches", not for accepting the other’s presence, but moreover to confirm to ourselves that we are always right. We have become selfish and have forgotten to truly listen to the other. Very often, we enter a bar and notice that people at the tables are clinging to a glass of alcohol, staring blankly and not communicating (anymore). We have parallel paths and we are afraid of leaving the "citadels" of our ego. We have become "solitary". After Hours is an absurd and comic discourse, or comic and absurd, narrating about loneliness, social inadaptability and emotional numbness. The starting point is the beginning of a joke: "Two guys enter a bar". The two "rogue heroes" are resorting in a "no man's land of non-communication" to the well-known arguments of a talk over a drink: politics, money, women, cars, literature”. – Radu Iacoban   Translated by Simona Nichițeanu   Details   

The show brings forward a dire subject, taken from today’s topical news – organ trafficking – and tells a realistic story... but envelops it in a black comedy of good quality. The American dream and the life of emmigrants in a chameleonic ideal world takes on dramatic accents, as well as comical ones. Just imagine what the Bundys from the well-known comedy series would look like, if they lived off organ trade, instead of shoe sales... Organic is a very present and engaging show, displaying grave accents, humor and irony, all accompanied by musical, theatrical, choreographic and visual surprises. Translated by Ioana Axenoi - Pănescu   Details