This year (2012), the theatre festival DRAMA is organised together with the Baltic Theatre Festival– the joint original dramaturgy festival of the three Baltic countries which take turns to organise the festival. According to the statutes, every country submits two plays which are based on original dramaturgy and an international jury of five evaluates the plays. The Baltic Theatre Festival is the legal successor of the theatre festival Baltic Theatre Spring which was organised in 1956, 1957 and 1958 and united the Baltic countries. The festival was revived in 1984 but the tradition stopped again after that until 2005 when it was revived by the Baltic View festival in Riga. Estonia has hosted the festival twice – in 2006 and in 2009.
The programme of this year’s Baltic Theatre Festival consists of
Blossoming (Estonian Drama Theatre) and Price of Honey(Ugala Theatre) from Estonia, Unė (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre) from Lithuania and The End (Latvian National Theatre) and Poetry Butterfly (Picture Theatre) from Latvia.
The members of the jury are the Russian theatre critic Yulia Kleyman, Latvian cultural critic and director Linda Ģībiete, Lithuanian theatre critic Jūratė Grigaitienė, Estonian literary scholar Aare Pilv and the chairman of the jury is the actor and director Nils Riess from the USA.
The Price of Honey4/09 - 17:00-19:20, in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
Unė5/09 - 18:00-19:10, in the Genialists’ Club (English and Estonian synopsis provided, ticket 14/10€)
Poetry Butterfly6/09 - 18:00-18:50, in the Harbour Theatre (ticket 6€)
The Blossoming7/09 - 18:00-20:00, in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
The End8/09 - 16:00-17:30, in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English and Estonian,
ticket 14/10€)
TICKET INFORMATION+372 55 644 413.
More information at info@festival.ee
"The Language of Flowers" by Federico Garcia Lorca. Director: Rainer Sarnet
The main theme of the festival is “In Focus: Actor”
The festival DRAAMA 2012 revolves around the Actor. Actor as creator, Actor as contributer, Actor as the focal point of Estonian theatre. The curator Anu Lamp, herself an actress, has put together a programme that highlights the various strengths of Estonian actors. In addition to productions from leading Estonian theatres, young and old performers are featured over a number of evening shows in which the actors come face to face with the audience – as themselves, « filling the wide vessel of the universe » (Shakespeare).
Sunday, September 2
19:00-22:15Tears Invisible to the World (Tallinn City Theatre)
in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
Monday, September 3
15:00-15.30 Opening of the festival at the Tartu Botanical Gardens featuring Alo Kõrve, Elisabet Reinsalu, Aivar Tommingas, Priit Strandberg.
16:00-19:15Tears Invisible to the World (Tallinn City Theatre)
in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
18:00-20:30Invisible House (Endla Theatre)
in the Harbour Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
20:00-21:00Divain the Athena Centre (ticket 14/10€)
21:00-22:45The Beatles of Vanemuine (Tartu New Theatre)
in the Tartu New Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
Tuesday, September 4
14.15 Book launch for Paavo Piik’s „Keti lõpp“ („End of the Chain“) in Kink Konk Club (entry is free of charge!)
17:00-19:20The Price of Honey (Ugala Theatre)
in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
18:00-19:00Divain the Athena Centre (ticket 14/10€)
18:00-19:45Iphigenia at Aulis (Theatre NO99)
in the Hall of the Estonian National Defence College (ticket 14/10€)
20:00-23:00Until Angels Intervene(Estonian Drama Theatre)
in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
20:00-21:10Nisa(VAT Theatre)
in the Tartu New Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
21:00 Focus: Maarja Mitt, Aarne Soro, Üllar Saaremäe, Toomas Suuman and Sepo Seeman in the Athena Centre (ticket 2€)
21:00-23:20Seven Brothers (Estonian Drama Theatre)
in the Genialists’ Club (ticket 14/10€)
23:30-1:50Career (Theatre Vanemuine)
in the Harbour Theatre, (ticket 14/10€)
Wednesday, September 5
15:00 presentation of the 2011 theatre statistics publication and the introduction of a new web-based statistics engine at Kink Konk Club (entry is free of charge!)
15:00-16:10Detox the Dummy (Estonian State Puppet & Youth Theatre)
in the Harbour Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
17:00-20:00Until Angels Intervene (Estonian Drama Theatre)
in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
18:00-19:45Iphigenia at Aulis (Theatre NO99)
in the Hall of the Estonian National Defence College (English synopsis provided, ticket 14/10€)
18:00-19:10Unė (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
in the Genialists’ Club (English and Estonian synopsis provided, ticket 14/10€)
20:00-21:10Detox the Dummy (Estonian State Puppet & Youth Theatre)
in the Harbour Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
21:00-22:10Nisa (VAT Theatre)
in the Tartu New Theatre (Lai Street 37) (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
21:00 In Focus: Actor in the Athena Centre (ticket 2€)
22:30 In Focus: Katariina Unt in the Tartu New Theatre (Lai Street 37) (ticket 2€)
21:00 Focus: Nero Urke, Viire Valdma and Tiina Tauraite in the Athena Centre, (ticket 2€)
23:00Funk Konin the Attic Hall of the Athena Centre (interpretataion into English, ticket 14/10€)
Thursday, September 6
12:00-15:00Sounds of the Plains (Drama Festival and Saueaugu Theatre Farm)
in the Saueaugu Theatre Farm (Simultaneous interpretation into English,ticket 14/10€)
17:00 Drama Theatre Youngsters – the first reading in the Genialists’ Club (ticket 2€)
18:00-18:50Poetry Butterfly (Picture Theatre, Latvia)
in the Harbour Theatre (ticket 6€)
18:00-21:30Time and the Conways (Tallinn City Theatre)
in the Tallinn City Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
21:00-23:25Ukuaru(Ugala Theatre)
in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
21:00-22:30 In Focus: Trampoline Man in the Athena Centre (ticket 2€)
Friday, September 7
18:00-20:00The Blossoming (Estonian Drama Theatre)
in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
18:00-21:30Time and the Conways (Tallinn City Theatre)
in the Tallinn City Theatre (ticket 14/10€)
In August 2012 Tampere Theatre Festival and TINFO Theatre Info Finland organize together their second Finnish Showcase, a promotional event of theatre exporting, as a part of the 44th edition of the Tampere Theatre Festival. The Finnish Showcase presents for Festival’s foreign guests a selection of contemporary Finnish theatre that is heading abroad. This year’s selection gives an excellent example of the vast variety and multiplicity of the Finnish Theatre scene today. Foreign guests have an opportunity to get acquainted with a total of sixteen performances.
The Finnish Showcase consists of three parts: the six Finnish plays with English subtitles that are a part of the Main Programme and two promotional events on Friday 10th and on Saturday 11th of August, both taking place at Tampere University’s Centre for Practise as Research in Theatre. On Friday ten theatre groups perform short demos of their recent or upcoming works. Saturday’s event, organised together with Nordic Drama Corner and Agency North, focuses on new Finnish drama. During the Festival week there are also gatherings and other smaller events organised especially for Festival’s foreign guests as a part of the Finnish Showcase programme.
From the Main Programme Saara Turunen’s Broken Heart Story (Q-theatre), Leea Klemola’s Jessica’s Pup (Kuopio City Theatre), Andriy Zholdak’s version of Tsehov’s Uncle Vanya (Klockrike Theatre), Anna Krogerus’ Bad Child – Defense of Innocense (Kajaani City Theatre), Milja Sarkola’s The Family Member (Teatteri Takomo) and The Last Morning Star – Voices from the Siperian Taiga (Kokkola City Theatre & Ruska Ensemble) take part in the Finnish Showcase.
Friday’s event showcases ten short demos of performances by The Black Box’s Theatre Company, Mill Theatre, Tuija Töyräs and Tiina Jokitalo, Teatteri Metamorfoosi, Karttunen Kollektiv, United Snakes, Dance Theatre MD, Loistava-Company, Project pH6 and Blaue Frau.
The Finnish Showcase is organised by Tampere Theatre Festival and TINFO in collaboration with Centre for Practise as Research in Theatre, Nordic Drama Corner and Agency North.
Finnish Showcase 2012| IN THE MAIN PROGRAMME
BROKEN HEART STORY| Q-teatteri
Written & Directed by Saara Turunen
Broken Heart Story is a stylish demonstration of skill and talent of young theatre makers. It is a fascinating, powerfully distinctive entity of art work which reflects identity: artistry and womanhood. The story depicts a journey of a moustached woman and her forgotten Soul, buried somewhere in the clutter of an unopened closet; sincere in her thirst for love amidst the norms and expectations of the society.
The poetic and intensely visual work seamlessly combines elements from both popular and so-called high culture. It is impossible to shun from the eternal, universal questions in the play’s naive, at times almost nightmarish world: To be a subject or an object? Can art change reality?
Broken Heart Story is “a powerful art experience which leaves its imprint on you for a long time to come.” (Eeva Kemppi; Teatteri&Tanssi Magazine)
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JESSICA’S PUP (Jessikan pentu) | Kuopio City Theatre
Written & Directed by Leea Klemola
Jessica’s Pup returns Homo Sapiens back to nature – people grow tails and are proud of their fur.
Leea Klemola’s Jessica – Born Free play reached a cult reputation. Now Jessica’s family returns on stage in this independent play. The Jessica with growing pains we knew has become a mother herself; yet, there is no sign motherhood has brought her peace or contentment. Jessica rents a theatre stage and by means of fiction and a web cam, desperately struggles to explain to her son why the family got lost from the path common to all.
Jessica’s Pup deals with the human relationship with nature and the fellow creatures, but also with technology. The simultaneously hilarious and melancholic performance gives us a nudge: development and progression are not always synonymous.
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UNCLE VANYA (Morbror Vanja) | Klockrike Theatre
Written by Anton Tsehov & Andriy Zholdak
Directed and Concept by Andriy Zholdak
After Anna Karenina, Director Andriy Zoldak has taken Chekhov’s love-thirsty characters who are mourning their wasted lives in his powerful grasp. The outcome is a magnificent, uncompromising Uncle Vanya.
“Zholdak’s theatre is first and foremost theatre of grand images and emotions. He is a master of constructing multi-layered stage imagery. He is constantly striving to create the most accurate illusions of reality while at the same time drilling deep into the many layers of the surreal and the subconscious.” (Irmeli Haapanen, Turun Sanomat)
The emotional power of the play is superbly channelled to the audience by the actors. Among others, Krista Kosonen and Alma Pöysti’s work is breathtakingly skilled. Their characters’ all-embracing love struggles to reach out to the unreachable; they yearn, they lust, they rage with passion.
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BAD CHILD– DEFENCE OF INNOCENSE (Paha lapsi – viattomuuden puolustus)| Kajaani City Theatre
Written by Anna Krogerus
Directed by Eero-Tapio Vuori
Wed 8.8. at 19.00
Thu 9.8. at 16.00
Sorin Sirkus, Ahlmanintie 63 (2 h 15 min, väliaika). Subtitled in English
Tickets 29/27 € BUY ONLINE
Do you really remember what it felt like to be a child?
Bad Child is s story of a family breaking apart told from the perspective of a young boy Eetu. The play takes a sensitive and incisive approach to depicting how a child experiences the divorce of his parents and the numerous challenges within a new, blended family.
Actor Mika Silvennoinen’s interpretation of the protagonist is nuanced with lightness and compassion; the impressive growth story is spiced up with crisp humor. Bad Child is a “cathartic and empowering theatre that caresses and embalms the soul of the spectator.” (Eeva Kauppinen, Kaleva)
The play is produced in Kajaani in cooperation with early educators. Anna Krogerus wrote the story first in the form of prose which was then gradually adapted on stage along with the rehearsals. The story will also be published as a book.
The play is not recommended for under 13-year-olds. Pre-teens are welcome to see the performance together with their parents.
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THE FAMILY MEMBER (Perheenjäsen) | Teatteri Takomo
Written & Directed by Milja Sarkola
Sat 11.8. at 19.00
Sun 12.8. at 12.30
Tampereen Teatteri, Frenckell (2 h 35 min, intermission). Subtitled in English
Tickets 29/27 €BUY ONLINE
This play could take place in any family; it is so skilfully based on a range of individual and collective experiences. The Family Member, written and directed by Milja Sarkola, is “a performance that gives a welcome boost to theatre art.” (Maria Säkö; Tulva.fi)
The very core of the performance focuses on the relationship between a parent and a child. Moreover, The Family Member reflects conflicts between both parenthood and making art in not one, but two generations. It brings on stage a family disconnected from each other.
In the virtuoso working group’s hands The Family Member creates heart-wrenchingly beautiful and ingeniously comic situations. In March 2012, the work was rewarded with the Thalia Prize in the field of theatre with the words “an impressive performance that penetrates deep into the human mind”.
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THE LAST MORNING STAR – VOICES FROM THE SIBERIAN TAIGA(Viimeinen aamutähti – Ääniä Siperian Taigalta) | Kokkola City Theatre & Ruska Ensemble
Written by Jeremei Aipin, Adapted by Ari-Pekka Lahti, Jarkko Lahti & Working Group
Directed by Ari-Pekka Lahti
Sat 11.8. at 19.00
Sun 12.8. at 12.30
Tampereen Teatteri, Frenckell (2 h 35 min, intermission). Subtitled in English
Tickets 29/27 €BUY ONLINE
This play could take place in any family; it is so skilfully based on a range of individual and collective experiences. The Family Member, written and directed by Milja Sarkola, is “a performance that gives a welcome boost to theatre art.” (Maria Säkö; Tulva.fi)
The very core of the performance focuses on the relationship between a parent and a child. Moreover, The Family Member reflects conflicts between both parenthood and making art in not one, but two generations. It brings on stage a family disconnected from each other.
In the virtuoso working group’s hands The Family Member creates heart-wrenchingly beautiful and ingeniously comic situations. In March 2012, the work was rewarded with the Thalia Prize in the field of theatre with the words “an impressive performance that penetrates deep into the human mind”.
Darina Al-Joundi, actrice and playwright, reading greek poetry in Paris
Greetings, friends and colleagues, playwrights and translators:
I am pleased to announce that submissions for hotINKat theLark 2013 are now open, and I hope you will consider submitting your work and/or helping me spread the world to writers based outside the U.S. who might be interested in taking part.
From April 17-22, 2013, hotINK at the Lark will present readings of 6 new plays from abroad, following two-day workshops of each play. Happily, thanks to a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, flights and accommodations for all selected writers will be provided by the Lark Play Development Center.
· Full-length plays in English from any country outside the U.S. that have not had productions in the U.S. are welcome. We are currently unable to consider musicals. We can only accept one play from each author.
· Include in your submission:
1. contact information, including email address
2. a short author bio
3.the name of translator, if applicable, and translator’s email address
4. a short synopsis of the play and a list of characters, each briefly described.
5. A description, in one page or less, of how you would use the hotINK at the Lark 2-day workshop to investigate and strengthen specific aspects of your play or translation. This information is vital to the Lark’s decision-making process. We ask that you be specific about your goals as possible.
· Author’s primary residence for the past 5 years must be outside the United States.
· Please also advise us as to your knowledge of English, so that we can provide the appropriate communication support. Proficiency in English is not expected or required of selected playwrights.
· If a selected play has been translated from another language, written permission from the translator must be provided.
·Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
· Please email your submission, including script and supporting materials, in one PDF or Word document to: hotink@larktheatre.org by October 15, 2012.
Please Note:
· Scripts not submitted according to the above guidelines will not be considered.
· Selected playwrights will be notified by mid-December.
·Travel to NYC for hotINK at the Lark, as well as accommodations for selected playwrights will be
provided by the Lark Play Development Center
· For more information, please email hotINK at the
CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKSHOP led by Iñaki Azpillaga, 11-19 July 2012
DRAMATURGY WORKSHOP "The dance dramaturg: don’t (let your work) be seen dead without one!"
led by Lou Cope, 12-15 July 2012
CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOP on Yvonne Rainer’s «Trio A»,
led by Pat Catterson, 13-18 July 2012
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION (until 30.06.2012)
mail@kalamatadancefestival.gr, programming@kalamatadancefestival.gr
The Kalamata International Dance Festival is the key event in the year of the city’s International Dance Centre. The Centre was founded in the spring of 1995, charged with supporting and promoting the art of dance via research, education, and artistic activities and creativity.
After eighteen years as an active presence in the Greek dance scene, thanks to the support of the local authorities the Kalamata Festival has earned itself a special place on the festival map of the Mediterranean South, and built bridges to international dance creativity.
A number of influential figures, whose work is shaping the history of contemporary dance made their first Greek appearance at Kalamata, while the Festival has also taken care to promote and support Greek creativity in the field by commissioning works from talented Greek choreographers and supporting new companies in their experimental explorations.
Another integral part of the Festival are the workshops and talks aimed at dance students and professions alike, while other parallel events include publications and video dance productions.
From the very start, the Festival was programmed with two considerations in mind: the wide range of trends in contemporary dance and the ever-larger audiences this art-form attracts. Today, eighteen years down the line, every year sees a widely-varied audience enthusiastically respond to the call of the Festival.
Kalamata, the city of dance, is set to host its 18th annual programme of events between 12 and 19 July 2012.
PROGRAM
12 & 13.07 @ 22:00. Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre
COMPAGNIE DCA - PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ
Philippe Decouflé | Panorama
Duration 90΄
14.07 @ 21:00 & 15.07 @ 20:00. Kalamata Municipal Regional Theatre
PIERRE RIGAL - COMPAGNIE DERNIERE MINUTE
Pierre Rigal | Press
Duration 60΄
Tickets (€20.00, €15.00, €12.00, €10.00) go on sale: 29.6.2012
Tickets available at the Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre:
Monday to Friday (10:00-13:00 & 18:30-21:00) & Saturday (10:00-13:00)
Information & Ticket purchase via credit cards
(VISA & MASTERCARD): TEL: +30 27210 84525 & 87229, FAX: +30 27210 80938 (same opening hours)
The theatre is revolutionary by its nature. It does not need to come from events nor change for any reason. The theatre is beauty born from beauty before it and continues to builds upon itself. All encompassing and uncompromising, it is not influenced by events or situations. It only changes as it matures slowly. In this way, revolution has not caused the theatre to redefine itself.
The theatre is revolutionary by its nature. The first performances were about mythology, beliefs and the social contract. Then, it transcended mythology with its rebellion, chipping away at the prevailing beliefs and questioning the sacredness of social contracts.
There is Laius, who rebelled against the gods and questioned the laws of divine order. There is Oedipus killing his father, marrying his mother, defying the laws of social contract, weakening the legitimacy of the norm, pushing the limits further and crossing previously forbidden thresholds.
There is the majestic Antigone who rejects Creon, who was proclaimed as protector of the prince. And then, she brings down the prince.
There is Achilles who refused the divine order against Iphigenia. He rises against the sacrifice demanded by the gods and opposes the prince.
There is Othello killing Desdemona, the North that was within her, North that he will destroy to escape her influence.
There are the characters of Molière, strange and marvelous, but who we also find appalling, not by their tragedy but by their caustic irony in a burlesque comedy. The rise of these kinds of characters moves us beyond the day-to-day, loosens the weight of traditions and brings radical criticism to society.
And the epics of Brecht! They bring into question everything about the established order and revolutionize artistic conventions. The actors mingle with the public. There are neither actors nor audience members.
None of them waited for revolution to be revolutionaries. They were in themselves a great revolution that shook up society, turned social contracts on their head, and shook up the religious, whose presence changed as a consequence.
And Yahia Yaîche! He did not wait for revolution to be who he is. Rooted in his land, a child of his century, he had a premonition about a future where only the artist understood the secrets.
And the artist! A pioneer for the future, he refines his work. It is because of that that he is feared by the prince.
And there is Nejma waiting for her last hour. She does not fear death. On the contrary, despite the final verdict, she plays and pushes death back. Laughing and full of light, she begins her life over.
Building on a religious base, founded on the primary legitimacy of belief, society has never been able to control the challenges brought forth in the theatre. It is there that we see the heroic posture of the artist, placing in doubt the established order and religious dogma. These are the artists, at time reckless, who have brought adventure, brought harmony, created new reality, delivering art in all its splendor.
They are the ones who established the eloquence of irony and the verve of the comic. They are the ones who broke off with a church, searching to break the theatre from its religions purposes.
Save art, nothing remains. Art is what unsteadies the divine tranquility, dethrones princes and their courts, denounces the sanctimonious, defeats favoritism and terror, which, despite their power cannot spoil the spirit of art. The gods are followed by other gods, the court and faithful are followed by others like them and only art remains neither dwindling nor coming to an end.
Art continues to write sentences and letter in gold. It draws beauty from colors that will never disappear. Its perpetual movement continues to build on itself which will then build upon that, each step adding to its longevity. Art continuously evolves and it does not stop. It has been through the past, is rooted in the present, and is a promise for the future. Save art, there are only reflections of the lingering vanity and the stubborn ideas weighing on our lives.
BUCHAREST NATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL, 21st EDITION 28 October-6 November 2011
Friday, 28 October
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall Opening of the National Theater Festival 18.30 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Three Sisters by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Şerban, Budapest National Theater – 3h 15min with intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 19.00 and 22.00 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall – Mountainbikers by Volker Schmidt, directed by Radu Alexandru Nica, Timişoara German State Theater – 1h 30min without intermission / Thematic shows 19.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner, directed by Gábor Tompa, Cluj Hungarian State Theater – 1h 40min without intermission / Thematic shows 22.00 Bucharest Very Little Theater – Crazy Stories in the City, a show by Arcadie Rusu, Bucharest Little Theater – 1h without intermission / Dance in theater BucharestVery Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Saturday, 29 October
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 17.30 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Book launch– Camil Petrescu Cultural Foundation – The Russian Avant-garde. Drama, selected, translated, preface and notes by Leo Butnaru; Meyerhold. Writings about Theater, selected, translated, preface and notes by Sorina Bălănescu 17.30Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Book launch– Romanian Cultural Institute Publishing House 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Three Sisters by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Şerban, Budapest National Theater – 3h 15min with intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 20.30 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – The Seagull by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Christian Benedetti, Théâtre-Studio, Paris, France – 2h without intermission / Foreign guest show 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall –Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner, directed by Gábor Tompa, Cluj Hungarian State Theater – 1h 40min without intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Toma Caragiu Hall –Notes of a Stranger, after F.M. Dostoyevsky, directed by Alexandru Darie, Bucharest Bulandra Theater – 3h 40min with intermission / Thematic shows 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Three Sisters by A.P. Chekhov, dramatized and directed by Dan Puican, Radio Romania Cultural– 86min/ FNT On Air 20.30 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – The Seagull by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Christian Benedetti, Théâtre-Studio, Paris, Franţa – 2h without intermission / Thematic shows 20.30 Bucharest Little Theater – Contos em viagem– Cabo Verde,text selection and dramaturgy by Natália Luíza, directed by Miguel Seabra, Teatro Meridional, Lisbon, Portugal – 1h/ Actors in the foreground 22.00 Bucharest ACT Theater – Absolutely!, after Ion Creangă, directed by Alexandru Dabija, Bucharest ACT Theater – 1h 30 min without intermission / Actors in the foreground 22.00 Bucharest Arca Theater, Club La Scena – The Emigrantsby Slawomir Mrožek, directed by Lari Georgescu and Silvian Vâlcu, Bucharest Arca Theater, Club la Scena – 1h 20min without intermission / Actors in the foreground BucharestVery Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Sunday, 30 October
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – The Seagull by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Christian Benedetti, Théâtre-Studio, Paris, Franţa – 2h without intermission / Foreign guest show 18.00 BucharestComedy Theater –The Bald Soprano and The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Victor Ioan Frunză, Bucharest Comedy Theater – 2h 40min with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest ACT Theater – Absolutely!, after Ion Creangă, directed by Alexandru Dabija, Bucharest ACT Theater – 1h 30 min without intermission / Actors in the foreground 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural –The Cherry Orchard by A.P. Chekhov, adapted and directed by Dan Puican, Radio Romania Cultural – 84min 15 » / NTF On Air 20.30 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall – Uncle Vanya by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Şerban, Cluj Hungarian State Theater – 3h 10min with intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 20.30 Bucharest Little Theater – Contos em viagem– Cabo Verde, text selection and dramaturgy by Natália Luíza, directed by Miguel Seabra, Teatro Meridional, Lisbon, Portugal – 1h/ Foreign guest show 22.00 Bucharest Very Little Theater – Crazy Stories in the Cty, a show by Arcadie Rusu, Bucharest Little Theater – 1h without intermission / Dance in theater 22.00 Bucharest Arca Theater, Club La Scena – The Emigrantsby Slawomir Mrožek, directed by Lari Georgescu and Silvian Vâlcu, Bucharest Arca Theater, Club la Scena – 1h 20min without intermission / Actors in the foreground BucharestVery Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Monday, 31 October
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 15.00 Löwendal Foundation Bucharest – Album launch: Löwendal, the Artist Baron, with the participation of George Banu and Horia Roman Patapievici / Book launch 15.00NUTCA – Meeting with Christopher Wynn / Conferences 17.30 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Book launch 18.00 and 22.00 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall –TV for Dummies – a show for 100 remote controls by Mona Bozdog and Mihaela Michailov, directed by Ioana Păun, Iaşi Vasile Alecsandri National Theater – 1h 30 min without intermission / The theater of tomorrow 18.00 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall – Uncle Vanya by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Şerban, Cluj Hungarian State Theater – 3h 10min with intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Bury Me Behind the Baseboard, after Pavel Sanaev, dramatized and directed by Yuri Kordonsky, Bucharest Bulandra Theater – 3h 30min with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 BucharestMetropolis Theater – The Merry Wives of Windsor by W. Shakespeare, directed by Alexandru Tocilescu, Bucharest Metropolis Theater – 3h with intermission / Dance in theater 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural –Uncle Vanya by A.P. Chekhov, adapted and directed by Dan Puican, Radio Romania Cultural – 89min 15 » / NTF On Air 20.00 Bucharest Nicolae Bălcescu UNESCO Cultural Center – The Tempest by W. Shakespeare, directed by Victor Ioan Frunză, Bucharest Nicolae Bălcescu UNESCO Cultural Center – 1h 30min without intermission / Thematic shows 22.00 Bucharest ACT Theater – 9 Degrees in Paris, a show by Peter Kerek, Bucharest ACT Theater – 56 min without intermission / The theater of tomorrow BucharestVery Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Tuesday, 1 November
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 15.00 NUTCA – Conference with Yun Cheol Kim, Chris Ackerley, Manabu Noda, Monica Săvulescu, Dan C. Mihăilescu / Conference 17.30 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Book launch 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Caligula by Albert Camus, directed by László Bocsárdi, Craiova Marin Sorescu National Theater – 3h with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – Purification by Petr Zelenka, directed by Alexandru Mâzgăreanu, Bucharest National Theater – 2h without intermission / The theater of tomorrow 18.00 Bucharest Metropolis Theater – The Merry Wives of Windsor by W. Shakespeare, directed by Alexandru Tocilescu, Bucharest Metropolis Theater – 3h with intermission / Dance in theater 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Platonov by A.P. Chekhov, adapted and directed by Dan Puican, Radio Romania Cultural – 56min / NTF On Air 20.30 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall –Slices by Lia Bugnar, directed by Lia Bugnar, Sibiu Radu Stanca National Theater – 90min without intermission / Actors in the foreground 21.30 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall –Cries and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman, directed by Andrei Şerban, Cluj Hungarian State Theater – 2h without intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 22.00 Bucharest ACT Theater – 9 Degrees in Paris, a show by Peter Kerek, Bucharest ACT Theater – 56 min without intermission / The theater of tomorrow 00.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Duel on the Wedding Day, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexa Visarion (a radio show in memory of the actor George Constantin), Radio Romania Cultural / NTF On Air Bucharest Very Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Wednesday, 2 November
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 15.00 NUTCA – Conference with Yun Cheol Kim, Chris Ackerley, Manabu Noda, Monica Săvulescu, Dan C. Mihăilescu / Conference 16.00 and 21.00 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall –Cries and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman, directed by Andrei Şerban, Cluj Hungarian State Theater – 2h without intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 17.30 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Book launch 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Caligula by Albert Camus, directed by László Bocsárdi, Craiova Marin Sorescu National Theater – 3h with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall –Slices by Lia Bugnar, directed by Lia Bugnar, Sibiu Radu Stanca National Theater – 90min without intermission / Actors in the foreground 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Toma Caragiu Hall –Notes of a Stranger, after F.M. Dostoyevsky, directed by Alexandru Darie, Bucharest Bulandra Theater – 3h 40min with intermission / Thematic shows 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural –A Hunting Drama by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Titel Constantinescu, Radio Romania Cultural – 83min 51 » / NTF On Air 20.00 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – Purification by Petr Zelenka, directed by Alexandru Mâzgăreanu, Bucharest National Theater – 2h without intermission / The theater of tomorrow 22.00 Bucharest Nottara Theater –The Method, after The Grönholm Method by Jordi Galcerán, directed by Theodor Cristian Popescu, Bucharest Nottara Theater – 1h 35min without intermission / Thematic shows 00.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Duel on the Wedding Day, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexa Visarion (a radio show in memory of the actor George Constantin), Radio Romania Cultural / NTF On Air Bucharest Very Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Thursday, 3 November
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 15.00 NUTCA – Book launch:Reforms of Theater in the Century of Renewal,George Banu, followed by debate / Book launch 17.00 Bucharest Very Little Theater – Opening of set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute) 17.30 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Book launch 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Macbeth (a study) by W. Shakespeare, directed by Radu Penciulescu, Bucharest National Theater (Ion Sava Center for Theatrical Research and Creation) – 2h 50min with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall – First You’re Born by Line Knutzon, directed by Radu Afrim, Sfântu Gheorghe Andrei Mureşanu Theater – 2h 10min / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Nottara Theater –The Method, after The Grönholm Method by Jordi Galcerán, directed by Theodor Cristian Popescu, Bucharest Nottara Theater – 1h 35min without intermission / Thematic shows 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural –The Seagull by A.P. Chekhov, dramatized and directed by Dan Puican, Radio Romania Cultural – 109min 20 » / NTF On Air 20.30 Bucharest Odeon Theater, StudioHall –Tickled Off by Gabriel Pintilei, directed by Alexandru Mihail, Bucharest Odeon Theater – 1h 10min without intermission / The theater of tomorrow 20.30 Bucharest National Opera – Carnival Scenes by I.L. Caragiale, directed by Silviu Purcarete, Sibiu Radu Stanca National Theater – 1h 45min without intermission / Thematic shows 22.00 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – Othello and His Beloved Desdemona, after W. Shakespeare, directed by Mihai Măniuţiu, Sfântu Gheorghe M Studio Movement Theater – 1h 20min without intermission / Dance in theater 00.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Duel on the Wedding Day, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexa Visarion (a radio show in memory of the actor George Constantin), Radio Romania Cultural / NTF On Air Bucharest Very Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Friday, 4 November
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 15.00 NUTCA – discussion with George Banu on The Cherry Orchard and film screening / Conferences 17.30 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Book launch 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Macbeth (a study) by W. Shakespeare, directed by Radu Penciulescu, Bucharest National Theater (Ion Sava Center for Theatrical Research and Creation) – 2h 50min with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Odeon Theater, Great Hall – First You’re Born by Line Knutzon, directed by Radu Afrim, Sfântu Gheorghe Andrei Mureşanu Theater – 2h 10min / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall –The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare, directed by László Bocsárdi, Sfântu Gheorghe Tamási Áron Theater – 3h 10min with intermission / Thematic shows 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural – The Wood Demon by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Dan Puican, Radio Romania Cultural – 80min / NTF On Air 20.30 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – Othello and His Beloved Desdemona, after W. Shakespeare, directed by Mihai Măniuţiu, Sfântu Gheorghe M Studio Movement Theater – 1h 20min without intermission / Dance in theater 20.30 Comedy Theater Bucharest –The Bald Soprano and The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Victor Ioan Frunză, Comedy Theater Bucharest – 2h 40min with intermission / Thematic shows 21.30 Ţăndărică Theater Bucharest – The Švejk Galaxy, after Jaroslav Hašek, directed by Alexander Hausvater, Ţăndărică Theater Bucharest – 1h 45min without intermission / Thematic shows 22.00 Bucharest Odeon Theater, StudioHall –Tickled Off by Gabriel Pintilei, directed by Alexandru Mihail, Bucharest Odeon Theater – 1h 10min without intermission / The theater of tomorrow 00.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Duel on the Wedding Day, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexa Visarion (a radio show in memory of the actor George Constantin), Radio Romania Cultural / NTF On Air Bucharest Very Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Saturday, 5 November
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 11.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Toma Caragiu Hall – Conference with Andrei Şerban / Conferences 17.30 Ţăndărică Theater Bucharest – The Švejk Galaxy, after Jaroslav Hašek, directed by Alexander Hausvater, Ţăndărică Theater Bucharest – 1h 45min without intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall –The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare, directed by László Bocsárdi, Sfântu Gheorghe Tamási Áron Theater – 3h 10min with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Toma Caragiu Hall – Ivanov by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Şerban, Bucharest Bulandra Theater – 3h 30min with intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 19.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Live Merchandise by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Vasile Manta, Radio Romania Cultural – 87min 48 » / NTF On Air 19.30 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by László Béres, Piatra Neamţ Youth Theater – 1h 45min without intermission / Dance in theater 21.30 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall –About Love in Man, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexandru Dabija, Braşov Sică Alexandrescu Drama Theater – 1h 50min without intermission / Thematic shows 22.00 Bucharest Ion Dacian National Operetta Theater – Platonov by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Zsolt Harsányi, Târgu-Mureş National Theater, Tompa Miklós Company – 3h 10min with intermission / Thematic shows 00.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Duel on the Wedding Day, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexa Visarion (a radio show in memory of the actor George Constantin), Radio Romania Cultural / NTF On Air Bucharest Very Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Sunday, 6 November
10.30 Act Theater Teahouse – Divan 17.30 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Book launch – Camil Petrescu Cultural Foundation – With and about Mariana Mihuţ by Mircea Morariu / Book launch 17.30 Radio Romania Cultural – The Mirror of Nature – dialog with George Banu, Radio Romania Cultural (premiere) / The Trilogy of Distancing by George Banu (premiere) 17.30 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall – Book launch 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Great Hall –About Love in Man, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexandru Dabija, Braşov Sică Alexandrescu Drama Theater – 1h 50min without intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest National Theater, Atelier Hall – Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by László Béres, Piatra Neamţ Youth Theater – 1h 45min without intermission / Dance in theater 18.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Izvor Hall – Bury Me Behind the Baseboard, after Pavel Sanaev, dramatized and directed by Yuri Kordonsky, Bucharest Bulandra Theater – 3h 30min with intermission / Thematic shows 18.00 Bucharest Nicolae Bălcescu UNESCO Cultural Center – The Tempest by W. Shakespeare, directed by Victor Ioan Frunză, Bucharest Nicolae Bălcescu UNESCO Cultural Center – 1h 30min without intermission / Thematic shows 20.00 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Toma Caragiu Hall – Ivanov by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Şerban, Bucharest Bulandra Theater – 3h 30min with intermission / Focus Andrei Şerban – Chekhovisions 20.00 Ion Dacian National Operetta Theater Bucharest – Platonov by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Zsolt Harsányi, Târgu-Mureş National Theater, Tompa Miklós Company – 3h 10min with intermission / Thematic shows 23.30 Bucharest Bulandra Theater, Toma Caragiu Hall – Closing of the festival 00.00 Radio Romania Cultural – Duel on the Wedding Day, after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Alexa Visarion (a radio show in memory of the actor George Constantin), Radio Romania Cultural / NTF On Air Bucharest Very Little Theater – Set design exhibition: Romanian presence at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 (Romanian Cultural Institute)
2 p.m. A.S. Pushkin State Academic Russian Drama (Alexandrinsky) Theatre
EUROPE THEATRE PRIZE
Press conference dedicated to opening of Europe Theatre Prize events 2011
Greetings and welcome
6 p.m. Lensoveta Theatre
SPECIAL PRIZE
Honey by Tonino Guerra
directed by Yuri Lyubimov
with Taganka Theatre company
latest production
running time: 58 minutes
8 p.m. Baltic House Theatre-Festival
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
directed by Kristian Smeds (1st repeat)
produced by the National Theatre of Finland
international preview
running time: 3 hours 20 min., with one interval
Wednesday, 13th April
9 a.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Conference and meeting with Viliam Dočolomanský
Curator: Leszek Kolankiewicz, Professor of cultural studies, anthropology of performance, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Miroslav Ballay, critic (Slovakia), Milos Mistrik, professor, critic (Slovakia), Jana Navratova, journalist (Czech Republic), Jana Pilatova, dramaturg (Czech Republic), Larisa Solntzeva, professor, critic (Russia), Hana Varadzinova, actress (Czech Republic), Eliska Vavrikova, actress (Czech Republic)
12 p.m. Theatre of S. Petersburg Theatre Academy
SPECIAL PRIZE
Conference with Yuri Lyubimov
Curator: Alexey Platunov, Foreign relations manager, Baltic House Theatre-Festival (Russia)
Moderator: Nikolai Svanidze, Political columnist for the Russia TV channel RTR (Russia)
4 p.m. Molodezhny Theatre on Fontanka
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
directed by Gisli Ӧrn Garʠarsson (Vesturport Theatre)
original music score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
running time: 85 minutes, no interval
7 p.m. Baltic House Theatre-Festival
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
directed by Kristian Smeds (2nd repeat)
produced by the National Theatre of Finland
international preview
running time: 3 hours 20 min., with one interval
7 p.m. The Theatre on Vasilievsky Island
RUSSIAN ACCENT/ST. PETERSBURG PERFORMANCES
Daniel Stein. Translator
directed by Andrzey Buben
running time: 2 hours , no interval
Thursday, 14th April
9 a.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Conference and meeting with Kristian Smeds
Curator: Kirsikka Moring, Theatre critic (Finland)
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Eeva Bergroth, producer Smeds Ensemble (Finland), Ritva Holmberg, dramaturg (Finland), Kaarle Holmberg, director (Finland), Peeter Jalakas, director Von Krahl Theatre Tallinn (Estonia), Ivo Kuyl, artistic director KVS Theatre, Bruessels (Belgium), Audronis Liuga, journalist, director of production “Audronis Liuga” (Lithuania), Maria Liisa Nevala, former director National Theatre of Finland, professor (Finland)
11 a.m. Museum and Galleries of Modern Art ERARTA
RUSSIAN ACCENT
Conference of presentation
St. Petersburg culture policy in European context
4.30 p.m. Youth Audience Theatre
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
The Theatre by Viliam Dočolomanský
directed by Viliam Dočolomanský
with Farm in the Cave company
running time: 75 minutes, no interval
7 p.m. The Baltic House Theatre-Festival
RUSSIAN ACCENT/ST. PETERSBURG PERFORMANCES
Moscow – Petushki
directed by Andrey Zholdak
produced by the Theatre-festival “Baltic House”
running time: 3 hours 45 min., with one interval
7.30 p.m. A.S. Pushkin State Academic Russian Drama (Alexandrinsky) Theatre
RUSSIAN ACCENT/ST. PETERSBURG PERFORMANCES
Your Gogol
directed by Valery Fokin
Friday, 15th April
9 a.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Conference and meeting with Vesturport Theatre
Curator: Michael Billington, Critic The Guardian (United Kingdom),
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Jane Edwardes, journalist (United Kingdom), Katherine Fahy, actress (United Kingdom), Jon Vidar Jonsson, critic (Iceland), James O’Quinn, journalist (USA), Gudjon Pedersen, artistic director Reykjavik City Theatre (Iceland), Jonathan Pryce, actor (United Kingdom), Alan Twitchell, Vesturport co-producer, artistic director (Switzerland/USA)
11.30 a.m. Komissarhevskaya Theatre
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Cabo Verde running time: 60 min.
Specialists running time: 20 min.
directed by Miguel Seabra (Teatro Meridional)
work in progress/world preview
4 p.m. Molodezhny Theatre on Fontanka
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Faust by J.W. Goethe adapted for the stage by Gisli Ӧrn Garʠarsson, Bjorn Hylnur Haraldsson, Nina Dogg Filippusdottir, Vikingur Kristiansson (Vesturport Theatre) and Carl Grose
directed by Gisli Ӧrn Garʠarsson, (Vesturport Theatre)
original music score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
international preview
running time: 2 hours, with one interval
7 p.m. The Maly Drama Theatre – Theatre of Europe
RETURNS
Three sisters by Anton Chekhov
directed by Lev Dodin
with Maly DramaTheatre company
latest production
running time: 3 hours, with one interval
10.45 p.m. Youth Audience Theatre
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Journey by Viliam Dočolomanský
containing an extract of Girlfriends, latest production in world preview
directed by Viliam Dočolomanský
with Farm in the Cave company
running time: 75 minutes, no interval
Saturday, 16th April
9 a.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Conference and meeting with Teatro Meridional
Curator: Maria Helena Serôdio, Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon, Theatre Critic (Portugal)
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Monica Almeida, administrative director producer (Portugal), Joao Carneiro, critic (Portugal), Rui Pina Coelho, journalist (Portugal), Ana Rita Delgado Martins, journalist (Portugal), Carla Ruiz Filipe, producer (Portugal)
11 a.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
PROJECT PRESENTATION
Permeability – projects 10-12
by Union of Theatres of Europe
Speakers: Alexandru Darie, President UTE (Romania), Ruth Heynen, General Delegate UTE (Germany), Matteo Bavera, Director Garibaldi Theatre Palermo (Italy), Dina Dodina, Intern. Relations Maly Theatre St. Petersburg (Russia), Alessandro Martinez, General Secretary ETP (Italy), Yuri Solomin, Director Maly Theatre Moscow (Russia), Giovanni Soresi, Dir. Communication and Marketing Piccolo Teatro- Teatro d’Europa (Italy)
12 p.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Conference and meeting with Katie Mitchell
Curator: Dan Rebellato, Lecturer, Department of Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London (United Kingdom)
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Katharine Bassett, journalist (United Kingdom), Dominic Cavendish, critic (United Kingdom), Martin Crimp, playwright,(United Kingdom), Stephen Dillane, actor (United Kingdom), Jeremy Kingston, critic (United Kingdom), Helena Lymbery, actress (United Kingdom)
3 p.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
Conference and meeting with Andrey Moguchiy
Curator: Nikolai Pesochinsky, Professor, Academy of Theatrical Art of St. Petersburg, critic (Russia)
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Alexander Chepurov, dramaturg, vice director artistic programmes and research (Russia), Jovan Cirilov, artistic director BITEF (Serbia), Marina Davydova, critic, director Festival NET (Russia), Edward De Lumley, dir. Cultural Attaché, French Institute of St. Petersburg (France), Roman Dolzhanskiy, journalist, artistic director Festival NET (Russia), Valerij Fokin, stage director, director Alexandrinsky Theatre (Russia), Dina Goder, journalist, director Big Cartoon Festival (Russia), Anton Gubankov, Head of Committee for Culture City of St. Petersburg (Russia), Lilya Shitenburg, journalist (Russia), Sergey Shub, Genereral Director Baltic House Theatre-Festival (Russia), Eric Soderblom, director Helsinki Festival (Finland), Zhanna Zaretskaya, journalist (Russia)
5 p.m. Komissarhevskaya Theatre
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
1974
directed by Miguel Seabra (Teatro Meridional)
produced by the Teatro Nacional Doña Maria II
international preview
running time: 80 minutes, no interval
8 p.m. The Baltic House Theatre-Festival
EUROPE THEATRE PRIZE
The broken jug by Heinrich von Kleist
directed by Peter Stein
with Klaus Maria Brandauer and Berliner Ensemble
running time: 2 hours, no interval
Sunday, 17th April
9.30 a.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE THEATRE PRIZE
Symposium on Peter Stein – Part I
Curator: Peter Iden, Theatre and art critic (Germany)
Contributors, in alphabetical order: Arturo Annecchino, musician (Italy) Georges Banu, IATC honorary president professor, critic (France), Michael Billington, critic (United Kingdom), Gianfranco Capitta, critic (Italy) Maddalena Crippa, actress (Italy), Mark Fisher, critic (United Kingdom), Vladimir Koljazin, critic and essayist (Russia), Joyce Mcmillan, critic (United Kingdom) Evgeny Mironov, artistic director, actor (Russia) Elke Petri, actress (Germany)
1 p.m. A.S. Pushkin State Academic Russian Drama (Alexandrinsky) Theatre
EUROPE PRIZE THEATRICAL REALITIES
The blue bird
directed by Andrey Moguchiy
running time: 2 hours 40 min., with two intervals
4.30 p.m. Big Hall, House of Actors
EUROPE THEATRE PRIZE
Symposium on Peter Stein – Part II
curator: Peter Iden
7.30 p.m. A.S. Pushkin State Academic Russian Drama (Alexandrinsky) Theatre
PRIZE-AWARD CEREMONY
directed by Andrey Moguchiy and Emanuela Pistone
followed by
Faust Fantasia from J.W. Goethe
voice Peter Stein
piano Arturo Annecchino
running time: 55 min.
7 p.m. – Foyer of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Opening of the exhibition – INTERFERENCES – 1990 – 2010.
The Last 20 Seasons of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL
8 p.m. – Main Hall
ELEVATION – extraordinary jazz concert (USA)
Thursday, December 2nd
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Screening from Tadeusz Kantor’s performances: Wielopole, Wielopole (1981), Today is my Birthday (1990)
7 p.m. – Main Hall, Studio format
Georg Büchner: LEONCE AND LENA – premiere
Directed by Gábor Tompa
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(1 hour and 40 minutes without intermission)
Friday, December 3rd
2.30 p.m. and 8.30. pm – Tranzit House
VACATION FROM HISTORY (Process_City Trilogy, Part I)
Directed by Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic
Shadow Casters, Croatia (2 hours without intermission)
5 p.m. and 8 p.m. – New Studio
András Visky: ALCOHOLICS
Directed by Gábor Tompa
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(1 hour and 40 minutes without intermission)
8 p.m. – Main Hall
Samuel Beckett: ENDGAME
Directed by Krystian Lupa
Teatro de la Abadía, Spain
Performance in Spanish, with Hungarian, Romanian and English translation
(2 hours without intermission)
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Dialogue with the creators of the performance ENDGAME
12 a.m. – Tranzit House
The Heritage of Great Adventures – roundtable discussion related to the book
launch: Georges Banu, TOWARDS A THEATRE OF SIMPLE FORMS (Koinónia
Publishing House); with the participation of Cristina Modreanu, Anca Măniuţiu
and Tamás Koltai
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Paintbrush Factory
EX-POSITION (Process_City Trilogy, Part II)
Concept / Directed by BORIS BAKAL, Katarina Pejovic
Shadow Casters, Croatia
(Depending on the number of journeys taken: min. 1h 30’, max. 4h. 30’)
3 p.m. – Tranzit House
Emergency Entrance – presentation of the Union of the Theatres of Europe’s
common project
4 p.m. – New Studio
Wallace Shawn: FEVER
Directed by Lars Norén
A coproduction of Théâtre de l’Espace – Scène Nationale de Besançon,
Le Nouvel Olympia – CDR, Tours, Apocryphe Tendance and Athénée Théâtre
Louis- Jouvet, Paris
Performance in English, with Romanian and Hungarian translation
(1 hour and 20 minutes without intermission)
6 p.m. – Main Hall
William Shakespeare: MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Directed by Matthias Langhoff
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(4 hours with one intermission)
10 a.m. – City Plaza Hotel – conference hall
Artistic meeting of the Union of the Theatres of Europe’s representatives
(private meeting)
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Roundtable discussion on the theatrical world of Tadeusz Kantor,
with the participation of Georges Banu, Cristina Modreanu and
Robert Cohen, followed by the launch of Scena.ro magazine and website
4 p.m. – New Studio
ROŞIA MONTANA
By Ştefan Peca, Andreea Vălean, Radu Apostol, Gianina Cărbunariu
Directed by Gianina Cărbunariu, Andreea Vălean, Radu Apostol
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian / Romanian, with Romanian, Hungarian and
English translation
(2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission)
7 p.m. – Main Hall
THE OTHER WORLD-THE SOCIETIES AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE MOON
Based on a novel by Cyrano de Bergerac
Directed by Benjamin Lazar
Théâtre de l’Incredule, France
Performance in French, with Hungarian and Romanian translation
(1 hour and 40 minutes without intermission)
9 p.m. – Lucian Blaga National Theatre
PROCESS IN PROGRESS (Process_City Trilogy, Part III)
Directed by Boris Bakal
Shadow Casters, Croatia
Performance in Croatian, with Hungarian and Romanian translation
(1 hour and 10 minutes without intermission)
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Dialogue with the creators of the performances PROCESS_CITY
and THE OTHER WORLD
1 p.m. – Tranzit House
IS THE CENTURY OF DIRECTING OVER? – Dialogue with Georges Banu and
Cristina Modreanu
Book presentation: Gábor Tompa’s dictionary of own theatrical expressions –
(Edited by Andrea Zsigmond, Bookart Publishing House)
6.30 p.m. – Upstairs Foyer of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Book presentation: ÖNÉLETRAJZ – AN AUTHOBIOGRAPHY by Andrei Şerban
(Koinónia Publishing House), followed by a presentation of the audio material
published by Radio România Actualităţi (edited by Crenguţa Manea)
8 p.m. – New Studio
Ingmar Bergman: CRIES AND WHISPERS
Directed by Andrei Şerban
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian translation
(2 hours and 10 minutes without intermission)
5 p.m. and 8 p.m. – New Studio
PYRAMUS & THISBE 4 YOU
after William Shakespeare
Directed by Alexandru Dabija
Odeon Theatre, Bucharest
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission)
6 p.m. – Upstairs Foyer of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Book presentation: Adrienne Darvay Nagy: STIEF MAGDA
(Komp-Press Publishing House)
7 p.m. – Main Hall, Studio format
Georg Büchner: WOYZECK
Coregraphy: Josef Nadj
Cie Josef Nadj, France
(1 hour without intermission)
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Dialogue with the creators of the performance WOYZECK and PYRAMUS & THISBE 4 YOU
7 p.m. – Main Hall, Studio format
Witold Gombrowicz: YVONNE, PRINCESS OF BURGUNDY
Directed by László Bocsárdi
Tamási Áron Theatre, Sfântu-Gheorghe, Romania
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(2 hours and 30 minutes without intermission)
Thursday, December 9th
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Dialogue with the creators of the performance
YVONNE, PRINCESS OF BURGUNDY
8 p.m. – Main Hall
Aristophanes: LYSYSTRATA OR THE CITY OF WOMEN
Directed by Dominique Serrand
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(1 hour and 45 minutes, without intermission)
Friday, December 10th
1 p.m. – Babeş-Bolyai University (M. Kogălniceanu str, no. 4)
WHAT IS POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE? – lecture by Patrice Pavis
5 p.m. – Tranzit House
Gogol: DIARY OF A MADMAN
Directed by Tom Dugdale
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English translation
(1 hour without intermission)
8 p.m. – Main Hall
Amos Oz: THE SAME SEA
Directed by Hanan Snir
Habimah National Theatre, Israel
Performance in Hebrew, with Hungarian, Romanian and English translation
(1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission)
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Dialogue with the creators of the performance THE SAME SEA
5 p.m. – New Studio RUINS TRUE
Inspired by the works of Samuel Beckett
Created by Yolande Snaith, Liam Clancy, Jess Humphrey, Mary Reich, Sharokh Yadegari and Gábor Tompa
Directed by Gábor Tompa
A research creation in co-production with Sushi Center for the Urban Arts
San Diego and the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
(1 hour without intermission)
7 p.m. – Main Hall Valère Novarina: IMAGINARY OPERETTA
Directed by Valère Novarina
Csokonai Theatre, Hungary
Performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and French translation
(2 hours and 45 minutes with one intermission)
11 a.m. – Tranzit House
Dialogue with the creators of the performance IMAGINARY OPERETTA
and RUINS TRUE
5 p.m. and 9 p.m. – New Studio
RUINS TRUE
Inspired by the works of Samuel Beckett
Created by Yolande Snaith, Liam Clancy, Jess Humphrey, Mary Reich, Sharokh Yadegari and Gábor Tompa
Directed by Gábor Tompa
A research creation in co-production with Sushi Center for the Urban Arts
San Diego and the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
(1 hour without intermission)
5 p.m. – Main Hall
Witold Gombrowicz: YVONNE, PRINCESS OF BURGUNDY
Directed by Attila Keresztes
Teatr Slaski, Katowice, Poland
Performance in Polish, with Hungarian, Romanian and English translation
(2 hours with one intermission)
8 p.m. – Museum of Arts
MOTHERS
Directed by Alize Zandwijk
RO Theatre, Holland
Performance in Dutch, with Hungarian and Romanian translation
(2 hours and dinner)
THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
20TH EDITION
OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 7, 2010
ROMANIAN SHOWCASE 3 / TOP ROMANIAN SHOWS
1. 20/20, written and directed by Gianina Carbunariu, Studio Yorick, Targu Mures
2. Here at the Gates of Darkness, after Euripides, directed by Mihai Maniutiu, Vasile Alecsandri National Theater, Iasi
3. The Celebration by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, directed by Vlad Massaci, Nottara Theater, Bucharest
4. Breaking the Waves (The Blessed Life of Bess), adaptation for the stage after a script by Lars von Trier, directed by Radu Nica, Radu Stanca National Theater, Sibiu
5. Hot Heads by Mihaela Michailov, directed by David Schwartz, Center for Visual Introspection and Tanga Project, Bucharest
6. The Woods by David Mamet, directed by Alexandru Berceanu, Ioan Slavici Classical Theater, Arad
7. Forehead Bumps, after Eric Bogosian, directed by Radu Iacoban and Tudor Aaron Istodor, LUNI Theater at Green Hours, Bucharest
8. Elling, dramatization by Axel Hellstenius and Petter Naess, after the novel Blood Brothers by Ingvar Ambjornsen, directed by Vlad Massaci, Comedy Theater, Bucharest
9. The Woman Who Lost Her Garters by Eugene Labiche, directed by Silviu Purcarete, Comedy Theater, Bucharest
10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare, directed by Uray Peter, Studio M, Sfantu Gheorghe
11. Herr Paul by Tankred Dorst, directed by Radu Afrim, Youth Theater, Piatra Neamt
12. The Good Thief by Conor McPherson, directed by Cristi Juncu, 74 Theater, Targu Mures
13. The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, after F. Dostoevsky, directed by Radu Penciulescu, National Theater, Bucharest
14. The Cherry Orchard by A. P. Chekhov, directed by Felix Alexa, National Theater, Bucharest
15. Miriam W. by Savyon Liebrecht, directed by Radu Afrim, Toma Caragiu Theater, Ploiesti
16. The Odyssey, after Homer, directed by Tim Carroll, Marin Sorescu National Theater, Craiova
17. Family Stories by Biljana Sbrljanovic, directed by Cristian Ban, Andrei Muresanu Theater, Sfantu Gheorghe
18. Pyramus & Thisbe 4 You, after William Shakespeare, directed by Alexandru Dabija, Odeon Theater, Bucharest
19. Royal Fashion, directed by Dan Puric, National Operetta Theater, Bucharest
20. Endgame by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alexandru Tocilescu, Metropolis Theater, Bucharest
21. Cries and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman, directed by Andrei Serban, Hungarian State Theater, Cluj-Napoca
22. Supermarket, playscript and stage direction by Theo Herghelegiu, Inexistent Theater and La Scena Club, Bucharest
NTF PREMIERES – booked titles
1. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare, directed by Matthias Langhoff, Hungarian State Theater, Cluj-Napoca
2. Show by Rodrigo Garcia, Mihai Eminescu National Theater, Timisoara
FOREIGN GUEST SHOWS
1. Hey, Girl! A show by Romeo Castellucci & Societas Raffaello Sanzio (IT)
2. Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Silviu Purcarete, Les Arts et Mouvants, Cie à l’endroit des mondes allant vers (Paris), Ex-Ponto Festival (Slovenia), UNITER, Romanian Cultural Institute (Cantemir program)
NTF DEBUT
1. Exile to the Land of Oblivion, directed and choreography by Andreea Tanasescu, National Dance Center, Bucharest
2. The Office Clerks, after A. P. Chekhov, directed by Alexandru Mazgareanu, Metropolis Theater, Bucharest
DEBATES, CONFERENCES, MEETINGS
1. Lee Breuer, Mabou Mines founder, USA – conference and video presentation
2. Michal Kobialka – conference and Kantor shows screening
3. Theater seen from close up – lecture by George Banu
4. Octavian Saiu live with Silviu Purcarete
5. Romanian artists conferences
6. Debate – The situation of Romanian theater (20th edition)
BOOK LAUNCHES
UNITEXT Publishers – NTF Collection
1. Fifty Key Theater Directors (Maria Shevtsova and Shomit Mitter, Routledge, 2005), translated by Anca Ionita and Cristina Modreanu
2. Kantor by Michal Kobialka, translated by Cipriana Petre; with the Theater Department of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca
bybliotek Publishers
1. Mihai Maniutiu. Spatiul cameleonic / The Ever-changing Space by Cristina Modreanu, bybliotek Publishers, 2010
2. Memoriile hingherului / Memories of the Flayer by Mihai Maniutiu, illustrations by Iuliana Vilsan, bybliotek Publishers, 2010
Trilogia indepartarii by George Banu, Cartea romaneasca Publishers
MOVIES, NIGHT, THEATER = NTF
The Night, series by George Banu, a film by Dominic Dembinski, photography director: Viorel Sergovici, a production of TVR Cultural
Episode 1: Silence and rustle / Episode 2: The city lights and insomnia / Episode 3: Dictatorship and the demons of power / Episode 4: Night lives: lust and duty / Episode 5 Loneliness and melancholy / Episode 6: The end of night, the birth of day
