10 by Csaba Székely
19 October| 18:00 – Bulandra Theatre, Liviu Ciulei Hall
20 October| 21:00 – Bulandra Theatre, Liviu Ciulei Hall
10 is an original project of its creative team, ins
FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING by Mimi Brănescu
19 October| 21:00 – Metropolis Theatre, Olga Tudorache Hall
20 October| 17:00 – Metropolis Theatre, Olga Tudorache Hall
Tragicomedy. A chronicle of a loser, related by witn
MISS JULIE after August Strindberg
19 October | 21:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Big Hall
20 October | 19:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Big Hall
Strindberg’s classic tragedy tells how the ari
THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault
20 October| 11:00 – Țăndărică Theatre, Lahovari Hall
27 October| 17:00 – Țăndărică Theatre, Lahovari Hall
Who isn`t aware of the story of The Little Red Riding Hood? No gen
In Dialogue with Brigitte Lacombe
20 October | 16:00 – NTF HUB – Image Hall (ARCUB)
Brigitte Lacombe is known for her influential and revelatory portraiture.
For four decades, she has created classic and intimate portr
EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT by Alexa Băcanu
20 and 21 October | 17:00 – Replika Centre for Educational Theatre
Everything is alright talks about the age of physical, emotional and intellectual changes that take place at the beginning of adole
THE INCREDIBLE AND SAD TALE OF INNOCENT ERÉNDIRA AND HER HEARTLESS GRANDMOTHER by Gabriel García Márquez
20 and 21 October| 18:00 – Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
The performance tells the story of Eréndira, who was barely 14 years old when her grandmother, accusing her of burning the house down, forces her into
To_R / FEAST
20 October | 20:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Pictura Hall
21 October | 22:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Pictura Hall
The production explores a feast, a gathe
CEKHOV’S FIRST PLAY by Ben Kidd, Bush Moukarzel and A. P. Cehov
20 October | 21:00 – I. L. Caragiale National Theatre, Studio Hall
21 October | 18:00 – I. L. Caragiale National Theatre, Studio Hall
‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do w
New Plays – The University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș in International Programs
21 October| 11:00 – NTF HUB, Semantic Hall (ARCUB)
The National Theatre Festival salutes the initiative of The University of Arts Tîrgu-Mureș (UAT) and includes in the programme of the Festival a presentati
Oedipus at Epidaurus (documentary film)
21 October| 11:00 – NTF HUB, CINETIC Hall
Russia 2018, 40 min.
Documentary film by de Marina Merkulova and Alexandre Miagchenkov, about the performance Oedipus Rex, dire
THE SENSATION OF RESILIENCE WHEN TREADING ON DEAD BODIES by Matei Vișniec
21 October| 17:00 – Odeon Theatre, Studio Hall
22 October| 20:00 – Odeon Theatre, Studio Hall
The play was written by Matei Vișniec in France the beginning of 2009, at the
HAMLET by William Shakespeare
21 and 22 October| 19:00 – Metropolis Theatre, Centenary Hall
Hamlet is a “Kammerspiel”, a family drama. The performance analyzes in depth what it is not allowed to explore in the linear. The charac
THE SEAGULL by A. P. Cehov
21 October| 17:00 – unteatru
22 and 23 October| 19:00 – unteatru
„I gladly received the invitation to work with unteatru. Here I found the atmosphere of my
EXIT THE KING by Eugène Ionesco
21 October| 20:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, The Grand Hall
“I told myself that you can learn how to die, that you can teach others how to die. This seems to me the essential thing we can do, because
CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne
21 October| 21:00 -ACT Theatre
22 October| 22:00 – ACT Theatre
Constellations, written by Nick Payne, has the capacity to break through all conventions. To convey
CEHOV – PURCĂRETE (Movie Screening: Workshop)
21 October | 20:00 – NTF HUB, CINETIC Hall
”In the first half of July, eighteen chosen actors, Silviu Purcărete, Cristina Nicu Tudor, Zoe Bălan and I went to Sinaia. ……”
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ARTS EVERYWHERE. Integrating artistic practice, learning and engagement in the lives of the entire community
22 October| 11:00 – NTF HUB, SEMANTIC Hall
Emil J. Kang serves as Executive and Artistic Director of Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Universi
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
22 and 23 October | 18:00 – TRANZIT.ro
Even if you take the liberty to refuse any religion or you are church person, at one given moment somebody will decide and will speak on your behalf. In the name o
Ethnotic Project – concert
22 October| 19:00 – NTF HUB, CINETIC Hall
Artists: Irina Sârbu (voice), Anatol Cazanoi (cymbals and keyboard), Cezar Cazanoi (flute and kaval), Lau
KRUM by Hanoch Levin
22 October | 18:00 and 21:00 – Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
The plane. They’ve already announced the landing. In a city. A city that kept everything it could… The airport. Two cemeteries. A better hospital
ALICE after Lewis Carroll, by Benedek Zsolt
22 October| 18:00 and 21:00 – Principal Theatre, Rapsodia Hall
A co-production of “Tamási Áron” Theatre Sfântu-Gheorghe and sZempöl Offchestra
For over 150 years, Alice’s
IVANOV by A. P. Cehov
22 October| 20:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest, Studio Hall
Chekhov’s play tells the story of Nikolai Ivanov, a man burdened with debt and surrounded by people he does not understand.
BU
ABOUT PEOPLE AND POTATOES by Radu Afrim
22 and 23 October| 21:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Atelier Hall
In 2012, a tragedy took place in Sfantu Gheorghe. Nine people died in an accident at work. The trailer they were in was trashed by a t
An Hour of “Diary of a Hard-to-Please Girl” by Jeni Acterian. Performative reading by actress Adriana Moca
23 and 24 October| 17:00 – NTF Hub , Imagine Hall
A tremendously interesting personality of the 1940s, but less known nowadays, a Romanian theatre director of Armenian descent and a theatrologist, Euge
RABENTHAL by Jörg Graser
23 and 24 October| 18:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Pictura Hall
Our primal instincts are staring at us behind the aquarium which is placed somewhere between the absurdity of the bourgeois decadence a
DRUNKS by Ivan Vyrypaev
23 October| 20:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest, Big Hall
24 October| 18:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest, Big Hall
Young girls, models, newlywe
THE DISPUTE by Pierre de Marivaux
23 October | 21:00 – Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
24 October | 20:00 – Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
“Had Marivaux lived in the 21st c. instead of the 18th c., he would have
(I) Love(d) Love. An adaptation after Nina Cassian
23 and 24 October| 20:00 – National Museum of Romanian Literature
„Fiecare nouă iubire este o speranţă”, obişnuia să spună Nina Cassian.
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Poetry
SLIGHTLY OFF STAGE
23 October | 21:00 – ARCUB
24 October | 21:00 – ARCUB
On a sparse stage, two performers live out two conflicting tasks. All is not well. Through a series of moving and amus
MADE FOR EXPORT by Alex Tocilescu
23 October| 22:00 – POINT
24 October| 18:00 – POINT
The merry existence of Alex Tocilescu ‒ advertiser and president of the Owners’Association of the block of flats in whic
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts
24 and 25 October| 18:00 – The Small Theatre
Three sisters decide to return home when their father unexpectedly goes missing. Nothing manages to stop their mother from being her ironic, cruel and acidic self
MOM, I’VE LOST MY ARM! by Maria Kontorovici
24 and 26 October| 20:00 – Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
Teenage is the time we start to seek our place and aim in this world. More often than not the search for one’s own identity means confronting essentia
MY FATHER, THE PRIEST by Gabriel Sandu
24 October | 22:00 – Apollo111
25 October | 21:00 – Apollo111
My Father, the Priest is about a normal family: a father who is a priest, a mother and their son w
Masterclass Gabriela Carrizo
25 October| 11:00 -13:30, LINOTIP
Director of Moeder ‒ guest performance at the National Theatre Festival, a work of the Belgian company Peeping Tom, which she founded with Franck Chartier ‒ choreo
IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT PLAN by Catinca Drăgănescu
25 and 26 October| 18:00 – Replika Centre for Educational Theatre
In the shadow of the great plan is a subjective attempt to re-enact the history of a big scale social experiment whose consequences
CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare
25 October| 18:00 – Bulandra Theatre, Toma Caragiu Hall
The essence of a play in Shakespeare’s vision focuses on the two conflicts: the political, internal one (plebeian – patrician) and an external one (Rom
NOAH’S CHILD by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
25 and 26 October| 18:00 – Metropolis Theatre, Olga Tudorache Hall
Chris Simion-Mercurian, the director of the theatrical performance Mr Ibrahim, and the Flowers of the Koran, presents a touching st
GARDENIA by Elżbieta Chowaniec
25 October| 21:00 – Odeon Theatre, Studio Hall
27 October| 21:00 – Odeon Theatre, Studio Hall
Gardenia tells the story of four generations of Polish women from the
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CULTURAL MANAGERS – 5th Edition
26 October | 18:00 – The National Library of Romania
The most important event-debate developed by the National Institute for Cultural Research and Instruction is the National Conference of Cultural Managers
EXTRAORDINARY CONCERT – KAMERART ORCHESTRA
26 October| 18:00 – The National Museum of Art, Auditorium Hall
KamerArt Orchestra is a chamber ensemble made up of some of the most talented young Romanian instrumentalists. Their value has been proved by o
MOEDER directed by Gabriela Carrizo (Peeping Tom, Belgium)
26 October | 19:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Big Hall
Moeder (Mother) (2016) is the second volume of a trilogy about the members of the family that opened with Vader (Father) (2014
DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR by Ödön von Horváth
26 October| 18:00 and 21:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest, Pictura Hall
Mysterious Don Juan gets back to the real world after the traumatizing experience of war.
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ALIFANTIS & FRAGILEBAND – M E M O R A B I L I A
26 October| 20:00 – Bulandra Theatre, “Liviu Ciulei” Hall
Artists: Nicu Alifantis, Adrian Flautistu, Răzvan Mirică, Lyuben Gordievski, Mihai Neniţă, Relu Biţulescu
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THE NIGHT ALIVE by Conor McPherson
26 October| 21:00 – The Small Theatre
27 October| 18:00 – The Small Theatre
The Night Alive was written in 2013 by the Irish playwright and stage director Conor Mc
BEWARE OF PITY / UNGEDULD DES HERZENS by Stefan Zweig
26 October | 21:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Studio Hall
27 October | 19:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Studio Hall
Young soldier Hofmiller is invited to Ba
HOMAGE TO LUCIAN PINTILIE
27 October| 11:00, 16:00, 17:30 – NTF HUB, CINETIC Hall
20:30 – Cinemateca UNION
”Pintilie inhibits us, Romanians, even from the other side. Not even today, in the 21
ANGELS IN AMERICA I. – MILLENNIUM APPROACHES by Tony Kushner
27 October| 19:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Media Hall
Angels in America is a colorful portrayal of the United States of America in the 1980s, depicting the time of Ronald Reagan’s presidenc
The European Regional Council of the International Theatre Institute (ITI)
27 and 28 October| 10:00 – 16:00 – Minerva Hotel
For the first time ever, the European national centers of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), the world’s largest performing arts network, meet to deve
WOLFGANG by Yannis Mavritsakis
27 and 28 October| 18:00 – Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
By meeting director Radu Afrim, Mavritsaki’s text becomes the structure generating a truly electrifying world on stage, cunningly draped in the abrasiv
SHYLOCK after Gareth Armstrong
27 October| 21:00 – The Comedy Theatre, Radu Beligan Hall
28 October| 20:00 – The Comedy Theatre, Radu Beligan Hall
Shylock presents a tragic picture with a comic
THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA by Hristo Boicev
27 and 28 October| 21:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, The Painting Hall
Four tramps inhabit a deserted train station. They desperately wish to escape this godforsaken place. Under the despotic directors
DIGNITY by Ignasi Vidal
27 October | 21:00 – Principal Theatre, Rapsodia Hall
28 October | 19:00 – Principal Theatre, Rapsodia Hall
An office at the headquarters of a political party. Victor, i
ANGELS IN AMERICA II. – PERESTROIKA by Tony Kushner
28 October| 19:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Media Hall
Angels in America is a colorful portrayal of the United States of America in the 1980s, depicting the time of Ronald Reagan’s presidenc
THE SCARLET PRINCESS, inspired by Tsuruya Nanboku IV
28 October| 18:00 – Fabrica de Cultură, Sibiu
The legend of Princess Sakura has gone through a series of changes over the years, starting with the original version dating back to 1817, until the most well-kn
STAGE DOGS by Florin Piersic Jr.
28 October| 17:00 and 21:00 – ACT Theatre
Inspired by A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet
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Cast:
Marcel Iureș
MIGRAAANTS OR THERE’S TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS DAMN BOAT by Matei Vișniec
28 October| 18:00 and 21:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest, Studio Hall
Matei Vișniec created a world where fiction and reality become inseparable, and the individual fates presented through the
Artmark Auction: GIVING IS RECEIVING. A THOUGHT of GRATITUDE TO THE ARTISTS
29 October| 17:00 – Artmark Galleries (Cesianu Racoviţă Palace, C.A. Rosetti 5)
The auction is the fifth edition of a successful initiative of the 28th National Theatre Festival launched back in 2014. Exp
Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), The Netherlands
29 October| 20:00 – I. L. Caragiale National Theatre, Big Hall
A production of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) – The Netherlands
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BOOK LAUNCHES
20 – 26, 28 October
Find below the schedule of the book launches at the 2018 National Theatre Festival (the 28th edition):
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Saturday, 20 Oct,
CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKSHOP with ANA MARIA LUCACIU
22, 23, 24, 25, 26 October| NTF HUB, Cinetic HAll
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