NTF in Press
The Iranian Conference
10 November | 19:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Wednesday, November 10, from 19.00, until Friday, November 12, at 19.00. English translation. Why Iran? Because Iran is a state of the spirit. Or a metaphor about freedom or its absence. About where personal choices begin and where they end. Or also about live, culture, love or God. On the occasion of a conference, ten representatives of „the Western way of thinking” discuss the delicate situation of a spiritual Oriental world that is nonetheless lacking any sort [...]
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
9 November | 19:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Tuesday, November 9, from 19.00, until Thursday, November 11, at 19.00. Valentin leaves Verona for Milan to complete his education "in a foreign culture", whilst his best friend, Proteus remains at home because he is passionately in love with Iulia. Valentin, who at first does not understand Proteus and does not believe in the power of love, falls madly in love with Silvia, the daughter of the Duke of Milan. His friend, also being sent to the [...]
This Lime Tree Bower
9 November | 22:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Tuesday, November 9, from 22.00, until Thursday, November 11, at 22.00. When financial burdens overwhelm two brothers, Frank and Joe, a substantial amount of money seems to be the perfect solution. In the short term this ideas seems to work, but family trouble, poor education, a chaotic existence and a mother who dies all too soon are not things that can have simple solutions. One needs something more than that. And the help Ray provides, a young, [...]
A Lost Letter
11 November | 19:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Thursday, November 11, from 19.00, until Saturday, November 13, at 19.00. „Caragiale is always a must have. You simply must have hi in your portfolio. He cannot be avoided. Besides, this seemed an important text for our current theatre company, as it is today. It’s a special company, well-experienced, functioning very well (….)” Other events of the day Author: I.L. Caragiale Nae Cațavencu: Andrei Elek Zaharia Trahanache: Zoltan [...]
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 [...]
Trapped
13 November | 21:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Saturday 13 November, from 21.00, until Monday, 15 November, at 21.00. To activate the English translation, press the CC button at the bottom of the video. We find ourselves in a totalitarian world, in the midst of a covered-up pandemic. At the Health Parade, the daughter of the Health Secretary says “The Emperor is coughing!” Yet somehow the crowd doesn’t believe her, so the girl and her parents are locked away in a secret location. Her parents [...]
The City with Poor Girls
12 November | 22:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Friday, November 12, from 22.00, until Sunday, November 14, at 22.00. “It's about the restitution of a an almost forgotten classical work of Romanian literature. It’s about the re-enactment of a familiar yet uncanny atmosphere. It is about rewriting (this comes as a continuation of my attempts with Scarred hearts by Max Blecher, Caragiale’s Injustice and The Forrest of the Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu). It is about the regret that time passes over so many wonderful pages [...]
All the Things Alois Took from Me
14 November | 23:30 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Sunday, November 14, from 11.30 pm until Tuesday, November 16, at 11.30 pm. The translation will be embedded. When actress Eszter Nagy is diagnosed with dementia, her son Cristi chooses to return home to take care of her. While trying to protect his mother from the misery of her condition and to preserve her public persona and artistic personality, Cristi’s own life starts to slip through his fingers. Eszter’s condition becomes a third character of their story, [...]
Heart and Other Flesh Matters
6 November | 19:00 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Saturday, November 6, from 19.00, until Monday, November 8, at 19.00. „About love and the colourful dust it turns into. About the butterfly-Labrador that to no avail struggles at the end of reality. About the involuntary humour and voluntary solitude. Abut truth, tenderness and sex. About children, poetry and coffee. About the body and how it bears the burden. About small tantrums occurring in the midst of a crisis. About beauty and souls that dry out more [...]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
8 November | 21:00 - Registrations at [email protected] The show has been available for viewing from Monday, November 8, from 21.00, until Wednesday, November 10, at 21.00. (The show can only be watched with prior e-mail registration at: [email protected]) 15 episodes of VR360 heatre (VR glasses are needed for a full experience). „I hope this performance will have the therapeutic power of those intimate, almost miraculous moments, when we sometimes get to have a clear understanding of things, and it would be fun to be able to then cover them up [...]
Rövidek | Shorts
13 November 23:30 - www.fnt.ro The show has been available for viewing from Saturday 13 November, from 11.30 pm, until Monday, 15 November, at 11.30 pm. Romanian translation. Beckett’s plays are haunted by all ort of out of the ordinary characters. People who wander in search of their place in an utterly disordered and meaningless world. Other events of the day After Samuel Beckett Translation by Terézia Feldmár and István Bart Cast: Albert Orsolya, Barabás Árpád, Bekő Fóri Zenkő, Dunkler Róbert, Esti Norbert, Fincziski Andrea, [...]
Three Tall Women
9 November, ora 18:00 - Regina Maria Theatre Oradea (under the umbrella of the NTF) Three Tall Women, directed by Diana Păcurar and produced by the Regina Maria Theatre in Oradea has not been granted online streaming rights by the agency managing Edward Albee’s royalty. The performance is scheduled at the theatre in Oradea, on November 9th. at 18:00, under the umbrella of the NTF. Go to the theatre’s website Author: Edward Albee Translation by Diana Păcurar Cast: A: Corina Cernea B: Mihaela Gherdan C: Alina Leonte [...]