NTF in Press

29 November | 16:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Sunday 29 November 16:00 till Tuesday 1 December 16:00. A premiere within the National Theatre Festival. The National Theater Festival brings in this year's online edition a premiere in the Romanian theater: the first live broadcast of a performed reading in 360 ° , which implies a new and unique experience for the public. [same_day_events_link] With: Maia Morgenstern și Mircea Rusu Directed by: Florin Ghioca Duration: 20 [...]

28 November | 15:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Saturday 28 November 15:00 till Monday 30 November 15:00. A film portrait, a documentary, winner of the Special Award of the Film Union, 2014. [same_day_events_link] Documentary maker: Liliana Chițescu Musical illustration: Mihaela Constantinescu DOP: Mugur Nedelescu Editor: Sînziana Miloșoiu Duration: 1h Producer: TVR  (2014) Alexa Visarion staged over 100 performances inside and outside of Romania, mostly plays written by I.L. Caragiale, A.P. Cehov, Shakespeare or [...]

29 November | 15:30 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Sunday 29 November 15:30 till Tuesday 1 December 15:30. ‘“LIVE” is the result of a work process that began six months ago and which has undergone multiple phases, transformations, and adaptations to the new realities we're facing. Designed as work-in-progress, the play was developed from scratch in close cooperation with the actors’ personal stories, as the characters and the situations depicted in the show reflect the thoughts and the concerns of the whole team. [same_day_events_link] [...]

24 November | 14:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Tuesday 24 November 14:00 till Thursday 26 November 14:00. „The History of a Performance” is a making-of of the performance „Our Stories”, by Gigi Căciuleanu, a series of excerpts from the rehearsals of the choreographic show „Our Stories”, as well as fragments from the official premiere at the National Theatre Bucharest. [same_day_events_link] Original music: Lucian Stan, Marius Mateşan, Dan Handrabur, Cristina Handrabur, Cristian Stanciu, Vlaicu Golcea, Mitoş [...]

26 November | 19:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Thursday 26 November 19:00 till Saturday 28 November 19.00. A fairy tale about a king who lost his kingdom, becoming the magician Prospero, and his daughter, Miranda. A comedy of illusions, an extravaganza, a text about power and revenge. The Tempest is, above all, a play about the demiurgical power of art and imagination. Prospero’s knowledge goes beyond the laws of the humans, controls nature, rules over spirits and conjures love. [same_day_events_link] [...]

23 noiembrie | 23:30 - www.fnt.ro Available for online viewing EXCLUSIVELY ON ROMANIAN TERRITORY from Monday 23 November 23:30 till Tuesday 24 November 23:30. A film inspired by the theatre performance FREAK SHOW. VIZIONEAZĂ ONLINE (24 ore*) [same_day_events_link] A film inspired by the theatre performance FREAK SHOW By and with: Florin Piersic jr. Duration: Produced by: SpiderFilm, 2020 Film premiere within the National Theatre Festival. Inspired by the theatre performance FREAK SHOW (written and directed by and starring Florin [...]

22 November | 15:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Sunday 22 November 15:00 till Tuesday 24 November 15:00. The documentary follows Silviu Purcărete during the rehearsals of the monumental „Faust”, adapted after Goethe and represents an attempt to penetrate the universe of director Silviu Purcărete, via Goethe, using the 2007 staging in Sibiu as a starting point. In Purcărete’s view, the faustian myth requires a special, extended space, not a classical stage, but an gigantic industrial space. [same_day_events_link] [...]

22-29 November | www.fnt.ro The photography exhibition „Near(ly) Far” aimes, in these times of physical distance,  at reminding us that theatre remains a mirror of the world, that people should stay close and united, even when keeping the distance is imposed by the pandemic. Visit the exhibition online throughout the entire NTF 2020. CLICK HERE AND SEE THE EXHIBITION ONLINE! [same_day_events_link] Part of the National Theatre Festival, „Near(ly) Far” brings us the most expressive pictures of the repertoire of [...]

26 November | 23:30 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Thursday 26 November, 23:30, till Saturday 28 November, 23:30. A performance trying to answer the question „What is an actor and what does he want to express?”, a demonstration that there still are complete artists, capable of transmitting a message, using the means of any type of artistic manifestation. A plea for overcoming the classic, dusty, widely known canons of contemporary theatre. [same_day_events_link] The Actor: Mihai Mălaimare [...]

29 November | 23:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Sunday 29 November 23:00 till Tuesday 1 December 23:00. Electra desperately awaits the return of her brother, Orestes, who, as per the Oracle, will be the one to revenge the murder of their father, by Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegistus. [same_day_events_link] Translated by: Antoine Vitez Film director: Hugo Santiago Theatre director: Antoine Vitez Set and costumes design: Yanis Kokkos Music for theatre : Georges Aperghis Producer: Théâtre [...]

22 November | 13:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for online viewing from Sunday 22 November 11:00 till Tuesday 24 November 11:00. Film-portrait of theatre director Andrei Șerban. The film describes the creative process and Șerban’s way of working, following the rehearsals of the plays reunited under the title of „An Antique Trilogy” („An Antique Trilogy- Medeea”,  „An Antique Trilogy-Electra”,  „An Antique Trilogy- The Trojan Women”, at the National Theatre Bucharest, in 1990. The team of the perfromance brought  Liz Swados (original music), Doina Levintza and arh. Dan Jitianu [...]