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Hektomeron Day, Performative installation

7 November | 12:00 – www.fnt.ro

The show has been available for viewing from Sunday, November 7, from 12.00, until Tuesday, November 9, at 14.00. English translation.

Click on this link to see what actors and at what time they presented their artistic moments.

Hektomeron Day – probably the world’s longest and most complex theatre performance – is a project based on an original idea of Vlad Drăgulescu, the artistic director of the Marin Sorescu National Theatre in Craiova, out of a desire to help us all escape the walls this virus has built, thus condemning the whole world to confinement.

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After The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Concept and project coordination: Vlad Drăgulescu

Performers: Adrian Androne, Monica Ardeleanu, Gabriela Baciu, Claudiu Bleonț, Alex Calangiu, Ștefan Cepoi, Iulia Colan, George Albert Costea, Anca Dinu, Ramona Drăgulescu, Corina Druc, Cerasela Iosifescu, Romanița Ionescu, Iulia Lazăr, Sorin Leoveanu, Geni Macsim, Alina Mangra, Dragoș Maceșanu, Claudiu Mihail, Cătălin-Mihai Miculeasa, Raluca Păun, Nicolae Poghirc, Marian Politic, Tamara Popescu, Angel Rababoc, Vlad Udrescu, Costinela Ungureanu, Nicolae Vicol, Cătălin Vieru, Petronela Zurba și Marius Manole.

Directors: Tara Jamora Oppen (The Philippines), Simon Iyarwema (Rwanda), Sunil Shanker (Pakistan), Meron Sisay (Ethiopia), Philip Parr (UK), Riyadhus Shalihin (Indonesia), Mclaudy Muyuni Munanzwa (Zambia), Karo Balyan (Armenia), Maria Varnakkidou (Cyprus), Mirko Radonjić (Muntenegru), Pascal Wanou (Benin), Mikayil Mikayilov (Azerbaijan), Håkon Thorstensen Nielsen (Norway), Anastasia Nørlund (Denmark), Mamadou Seyba Traoré (Senegal), Stefany Duarte (Chile), Maria Arche (Spain), Nadim Deaibes (Lebanon), Sinéad O’Donnell-Carey (Ireland), Diarra Mahamane (Mali), Benjamin Bajramović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Lloyd Nyikadzino (Zimbabwe), Alicia Saco (Peru), Charles Chemin (France), Szabó K. István (Hungary), Matias Maldonado (Columbia), Artiom Rybakov (Lithuania), Petru Hadârcă (Republic of Moldova), Lucília Raimundo (Portugal), Hesham Ali (Egypt), Ablas Ouédraogo (Ivory Coast), Yura Divakov (Belarus), Tetiana Shelepko (Ukraine), Waleed Alafee (Sudan), Luiza Cocora (Canada), Jaša Koceli (Slovenia), Seri Kurosawa (Japan), Natasza Soltanowicz (Poland), Dorsouma Vangdar (Ciad), Clau Espinola (Paraguay), Sofia Nikiforova (Russia), Zemouri Samir (Algeria), Pramod Chavan (India), Aleksandar Švabić (Croatia), Abeer Bshtawi (Palestina), Françoise Boillat (Switzerland), John Wasonga (Kenya), Alexandra Petrova (Bulgaria), Benny Lim (Singapore), Reuben Jones (Gambia), Roberts Dauburs (Latvia), Neo Kebiditswe (Botswana), Nora Mansmann (Germany), Fumban Phiri (Malawi), Liu Yutong (China), César Manzano (Venezuela), Anu Saari (Finland), Irene Sanga (Tanzania), Maksim Fadeev (Uzbekistan), Itgel Odjargal (Mongolia), Koen Verheijden (The Netherlands), Fred Abrahamse (South Africa), Mathylde Demarez (Belgium), Miguelangel Estellano (Bolivia), Richard St. Peter (USA), Fiifi Coleman (Ghana), Bimal Subedi (Nepal), Yiannis Paraskevopoulos (Greece), Alžbeta Vrzgula (Slovakia), Syafiq Syazim (Malaysia), Mehrdad Rayani-Makhsous (Iran), Nuttamon Por Pramsumran (Thailand), Enrico Bonavera (Italy), Byron Paste (Ecuador), Manoel Prazeres (Brasil), Lilach Dekel-Avneri (Israel), Mamadu Jalloh (Sierra Leone), Flávia Gusmão (Cape Verde), Wirsiy Bernard Bongkisheri (Cameroun), Aristide Tarnagda (Burkina Faso), Alexandru Weinberger Bara (Austria), Kalifala Waritay (Liberia), Igor Annaklychev (Turkmenistan), Jovana Krstić (Serbia), Egly Larreynaga (El Salvador), Suela Bako (Albania), Achiro P. Olwoch (Uganda), Avtandil Diasamidze (Georgia), Servando Anacarsis Ramos (Mexico), Tea Begovska (North Macedonia), Jaouad Essounani (Morocco), Dasha Nikiforova (Sweden), Arthur Banshayeko (Burundi), Brett Brown (Australia), Yuck Miranda (Mozambique), Kon Yi (South Korea), Adebajo Oluwafemi Israel (Nigeria), Jonathan Parada (Uruguay), Serkan Salihoglu (Turkey) și Radu Afrim (Romania).

Technical direction: Cristian Petec, Sorin Gruia

Lights Designers: Dodu Ispas, Ștefăniță Rezeanu, Marian Tudorache, Ovidiu Mustață, Vilică Ruiu

Sound: Emy Guran, Marius Marciu, George Udrea, Alin Stan

Make-up: Minela Popa, Mihaela Guran

Video: Florin Chirea, Robert Deca, Nicu Costinel, Eduard Sărăcin

Subtitles: Emi Chirea, Bogdana Dumitriu, Ramona Popa

Props: Monica Dragomir, Nina Răducanu, Mihai Nărămzoiu, Gabriel Leu

Visual artist: Orlando Edward

Webdesign: Sorin Ciupitu

Livestreaming: Mizdan

Marin Sorescu National Theatre Craiova

Born in a pandemic context, the Hektomeron Day project is based n Giovani Boccaccios’s Decameron, written over 650 years ago, in times similar to those we are living today. The message is one of solidarity and unity, a milestone dedicated to the contribution of the artists involved in this moment of world theatre history.

Photo credit: Albert Dobrin