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| The 19th UNITER Awards Gala |
| (2011-05-06) |
| Last updated: 2011-07-27 13:58 EET |
The first UNITER Awards ceremony was organised in 1993 three years after the Romanian Theatre Union was founded. In 1993 11 awards were granted for the 1991-1992 theatre season. Over the years the number of awards has increased and this year some 26 awards were given out.
The 19th UNITER Awards Gala was a ceremony where the greatest achievements in theatre during 2010 were recognised. Each category of awards had three nominations, and there were also the lifetime achievement awards, along with special prizes granted by the UNITER Senate. In today ‘s edition of World of culture we’ll introduce you to some of the winners at the award ceremony. One of the most impressive moments of the UNIETER Awards Gala was when actress Coca Bloos received the lifetime achievement award.
Bogdan Szolt, who took th award for best leading actor, introduced her with a laudation that moved the whole audience: “ With her prankish, naughty smile, with a Gavroche-style figure, unaltered by the passage of time, she has continually transformed herself with ease into anything the respective character required and has filled us with joy all through these years in many exceptional roles. She played in Satu Mare, Brasov, Piatra Neamt, Craiova, and The little Theatre in Bucharest. She performed with great actors and stage directors … Her presence on stage or in films seems to say me, “you see, Zsolt, look how easy it is!”
Coca Bloos was born 65 years ago and she chose her career as an actress after working as a journalist for four years. However, she went on to become one of the best-loved Romanian actresses not only in theatre, but also in films, a talent buttressed by her modesty and dedication to the Romanian stage. Coca Bloos: ” I would like to tell you that I am a free woman. I am a free woman because, four decades ago, I made that choice. And what I chose was my profession of faith – my love, my garden of wild flowers, was the theatre. I thank the UNITER Senate for choosing to present me with this award this evening. It is an award which, you must believe me, I never thought or dreamed I’d receive. I am a rich woman because I’ve met extraordinary people. If this evening, before you, I am what I am and I have done what I have done, it is to a great extent due to these people to whom I am indebted - and I thank them greatly.”
According to the actresses confession, she feels a strong connection to the director Silviu Purcarete. The same director had a strong impact on the career of another great actor who received a UNITER award this year - Ilie Gheorghe, who also received a lifetime achievement award. Thanks to Silviu Purcarete, Ilie Gheorghe came to play Caliban’s role in The Tempest, a show put on by Purcarete at the Nottingham Theatre in 1995.
The character he created enjoyed an immense success with the British public and media, and the production left for a one-month tour of Japan. Another special production performed and directed by Ilie Gheorghe, Marin Sorescu’s Jonah, was staged in Britain, Sweden and Estonia.
Here’s Emil Boroghina, a former director of the Marin Sorescu National Theatre in Craiova speaking about Ilie Gheorghe: “He is one of the most important and respected actors on the Romanian stage. If we were asked to enumerate the great actors who left their mark on stages outside Bucharest, we would start with him. His artistic biography is impressive.”
More recently, Ilie Gheorghe enjoyed a great deal of national and international success when he played the part of Faust in a production staged by Silviu Purcarete at the Radu Stanca Theatre in Sibiu.
The show was invited to the Edinburgh Theatre Festival two years ago and was also mentioned by Gheorghe in his brief acceptance speech: “This award is a great honour. In accepting it I must confess that I am feeling an indescribable joy in this moment in time, to which I could say, like Faust, “Stay, oh stay, thou art so beautiful!”
Every year since 2002, with one single exception in 2009, the UNITER Senate has also awarded a special prize for puppet theatre. This year, this award went to a 55-year old actress who has been working at the Children and Youth Theatre in Constanta for the last 52 years. Aneta Forna Christu is one of the best puppeteers in Romania, but she has also had many international collaborations. In 1997, for example, she played a part in the production “With Love from Nicoale”, staged at the Old Vic Theatre in Bristol, while in 2001 she worked on “Little Violeta and the Angel” with the Theatre Centre.
Despite her long experience, Aneta Fornu Christu was still overwhelmed when she received her award: “I am terribly nervous and I am sure that if I had a puppet with me I would have shared my excitement with it. We, puppeteers, breathe life into inanimate objects and are happy to be able to do so. We love our profession. A puppeteer’s work is very difficult, but it is also important, beautiful and appreciated. Proof of this is the fact that I’m standing here tonight, which is a great honour for me.”
Puppet theatre received not one, but two awards at the 19th UNITER award gala. The second prize rewarded special projects and remarkable achievements and went to the first Museum of Puppet and Animation Theatre in Romania. This is an initiative of the GAG Cultural Association and is hosted by the Oltenia Museum in Craiova. The project won over many public figures who wished to become involved in supporting this museum. To end, we will quote Adriana Teodorescu, a theatre critic and one of the initiators of the museum: “Remember to go to the puppet theatre once in a while. It is not only for children.”
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