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| The Final Gong for the National Theatre Festival in Bucharest |
| (2011-11-08) |
| Last updated: 2011-11-09 12:55 EET |
F 
or ten days, just like every autumn for the past twenty years or so, Bucharest became the capital of theatre in Romania, thanks to the marathon of theatre or other theatre –related events involving Romanian theatres with their productions in the 2010-2011 season or theatre troupes from other countries like Hungary, France and Portugal.
There were also many guests invited to attend the shows and other events in various venues besides theatres proper, like the National Opera House, the Operetta Theatre or the National University of Theatre and Film.
Outstanding people of culture, domestic and international theatre managers and directors of prestigious national and international festivals, theatre critics and journalists from Romania and abroad got more familiar with the values of Romanian theatre and with the most outstanding productions of the past season and not only.
35 productions were presented, some of them even with two or three performances a day; conferences, panel discussions or workshops were also held. Worth mentioning were book launches, radio drama shows, and even an exhibition. All those events, plus the informal meetings among the participants were opportunities both for the experts and for the large audiences to come into contact with great performances, exchange their views on spiritual issues or simply talk about theatre and professional expertise in a free climate of dialogue.
This year’s festival had famous Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovici Chekhov as patron – one of the leading world dramatists that influenced the 20th century, whose 150th birthday anniversary was celebrated in 2010 world wide. His famous words chosen as a motto of the 21st National Theatre Festival in Bucahrest “Man, this starnge creature “ have summed up, in one way or another, all the shows presented in the selection.
The audiences attending the shows in Bucharest could watch a genuine collection of productions inspired from Chekhov ‘s work or other pieces by Shakespeare, Buchner, Camus or Romanian famous playwright Caragiale as well as contemporary Romanian or foreign plays, in classical or traditional formulas or in more modern non-conventional even innovative ones.
The National Theatre Festival was structured into several sections which aimed to show some of the present trends existing in Romanian theatre today and to offer the audiences the opportunity to make their choice depending on personal interests and preferences. An all out first was the Focus section featuring world wide famous Romanian- born stage director and professor Andrei Serban who has surprised everybody world wide for the past few years with his inspired and challenging visions on Chekhov’s plays, ”Three Sisters” , “Uncle Vanya” or “Ivanov”.
To that we can add a large number of very diverse stylistic and ideological approaches in productions which translate in a way the bid of Romanian theatre to respond to the all time challenges posed to man everywhere. There were productions by well-established stage directors like Silviu Purcarete, Alexandru Tocilescu, Gabor Tompa, Alexandru Dabija, Alexandru Darie or Yuri Kordonsky or much younger emerging artists including Radu Alexandru Nica, Alexandru Mazgareanu, Alexandru Mihail or Ioana Paun.
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