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„Veniţi oricând la teatru! Dacă nu găsiţi bilete în FNT, veniţi altă dată. Pentru noi este important să fie mereu public în sală“. Acesta a fost îndemnul făcut de Marius Bodochi în Pasajul FNT.
22 October 2015, Articles
October 22nd 2015
„Come to the theatre anytime! If the festival tickets are sold out, come another time. To us, it’s important to have people in our auditoriums. Come to the National Theatre Bucharest. It’s so close. Our venues are good, new, have great standards, they will make you feel very well. And you can watch moving stories!” This was the invite launched on Wednesday night by actor Marius Bodochi inside the NTF Passage/ the underground crossing and the Universitate Metro Station to the passers by who were going to or getting out of the trains.
An article by Maria Sârbu
During the third day after the opening of the NTF Passage, Marius Bodochi and his colleague Florentina Ţilea, both part of the casts of the National Theatre Bucharest performances directed by Felix Alexa and part of the festival program: „Powder Keg” and „Terrorism”. They told the people who stopped to listen to them about these two productions. In Marius Bodochi’s opinion, Dejan Dukovski’s play „Powder Keg” speaks about the „world of the Balkans we also live in, a world with lots, lots of problems”, and the performance is „a sort of carousel in which the characters laugh, cry, live, die”.
Florentina Ţilea stated the the idea of the show, that of a „carousel, of slices of life is also supported by Andrada Chiriac’s set design- a mobile set, revolving on a platform- every partial rotation brings another space into sight, for a new scene”. Marius Bodochi completed: „It’s like a cake, if you like, many slices and some sparkles on top”.
About „Terrorism” (written by the Presniakov brothers), the actors said it’s a text in great fashion, performed all over in Europe and beyond. And that their performance is one worth watching.
„Terror, in its latent form exists inside each one of us. The moment you feel a sign of it, it’s decoded according to your fears, to your dreads. And then one small impulse is needed for a conflict to arise. But performances are not to be spoken about, one needs to experience; it’s about emotion. The themes are very powerful: you’d smile, maybe, but you feel that emptiness in your stomach, because it’s about topics that are painful and that reach us all, individually”, so Florentina Ţilea.
Then Bodochi filled in again: „There are five stories, apparently not interconnected, still in the end you realize that these people who do not know each other have the same destiny, they go through the same experiences. Five stories. I play two characters: a policeman and a mad colonel- one who fills the garrison with terror and in the end goes mad himself. He’s a great fan of Marilyn Monroe and he forces five of his soldiers to enjoy his singing in Marilyn’s style. He sings for them, and it’s exactly the song she sang to president Kennedy, when she had been taking drugs. He says, you have to help people first, and then they can sing. Her mood, her condition, her reactions were those of a heroin addict. Marius Bodochi sang “Happy birthday to you!”, just like Marilyn Monroe.
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Both actors signed autographs, took pictures with the passers by and they also spoke to us, for the website:
Marius Bodochi: „I want to convince people to come to the theatre, not only at festival times. Theatre has to be part of people’s lives. When coming to the theatre, people are cultivating their sensibility. It’s like going to church. At least a few times in life, you have to go there. Like religion, theatre prepares one to better and easier get through life. When at the theatre, you see reality in an artistic transposition, you see stories from other times, from other worlds, things you don’t get to see anywhere else. So, in my opinion, going to the theatre is like going to church”.
Florentina Ţilea: „Why should people come the the festival, and, generally, to the theatre ? Every one of us has his reasons for choosing to come to the theatre, but I would say it’s worth coming for a friendly atmosphere, to discover parallel worlds, which you don’t get in touch with elsewhere. There are different kinds of experiences: reading a book, looking at a painting, listening to a song. It’s a totally different emotion, being in an auditorium, breathing in a same rhythm with others. There is a certain temperature of a room, that you can feel, a certain pulse.
There are moments when you smile with the actor, you cry with him, moments when the actors tears you out of your daily routines and takes you with him in a story. There are stories you have never lived yourself, you can experience them in an hour or two, at a very intense level. Cause this is what theatre is: life lived very intensely, in very short time. It’s a very good idea to invest in this Passage, it’s a place where you realize the rhythm at which people live here, people are in a hurry, it’s difficult for them to stop to watch us. But when they get in contact with us, the actors, the world of theatre, they stop for a few minutes, they look at us, they listen. Come to the theatre, because the moment when you will step into the venue, doors to unknown worlds will open”.
Every day, around 17h, actors come to the NTF Passage. And our most magnificent volunteer/ Margareta Pâslaru / signs copies of the CD „Actors sing”, containing 20 songs of hers. The funds collected through the sale of the CD are transferred to the account of the “Artists for Artist” Campaign, organized by UNITER. On Wednesday, the announcement was made that a new project will soon be finalized, a CD called “Film Stars Sing” will be launched in November, for the same cause. It will contain 21 songs sung by 14 actors.
Photo credit: Cristian Munteanu
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