NTF in Press
Games for all (Theatre Workshop)
24 – 26 October 2023 Closed event The event is part of Educational NTF: Theatre workshops module Theatre workshop with games and exercises for children and youths with hearing deficit. Held by: Radu Apostol, director, co-founder Replika Location: Sfânta Maria Vocational Special School for Hearing Deficients The Educational NTF Module is made with the support of Direction for Culture Bucharest The theatre workshops as part of NTF EDUCATIONAL are dedicated to schools and highschools from Bucharest that educate [...]
Sosetino’s Voyages (Theatre Workshop)
24 – 26 October 2023 Closed event Event within the Educational NTF: Theatre Workshops module Education through Creation. Inclusion through theatre. This workshop paves the way towards a better understanding of theatre through the formation of a creative mindset meant to develop the children's imagination. Theatre workshop for children and youths with neurological deficiencies. Coordinated by: actress Taisia Orjehovschi Location: Special Secondary School no.2 The Educational NTF module takes place with the support of the Directorate for Culture Bucharest. [...]
Foreign Creators in NTF 33
The 2023 Edition of the National Theatre Festival (NTF), happening in Bucharest in between the 20th and the 30th of October, is providing three significant international productions, aside from the selected collection of Romanian products.
Seaside Stories
25 October | 18:00 – I.L. Caragiale Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall) (performance where the audience is seated on stage) Flashing encounters, short but intense moments taken from real life, perhaps those that we all lived at the seaside, with our feet full of sand. GET TICKETS [same_day_events_link] By: Marius Chivu, Lavinica Mitu, Dan Alexe, Simona Goșu, Tudor Ganea, Nicoleta Dabija Stage adaptation: Radu Afrim Cast: Running Beautifully, High Knees by Tudor Ganea Tudorel: Ștefan Mihai Mother: Laura Iordan Father: Iulian Enache Cătălin: Theodor Șoptelea Arrogant Lilly: Liliana [...]
Important announcement regarding the “Seaside Stories” show
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! The organizers of the National Theatre Festival have decided on adding one more "Seaside Stories" (directed by Radu Afrim, produced by State Theatre Constanța) performance to the schedule of this NTF's edition.
Beyond Fukuyama (Performative reading)
25 October | 16:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall FREE ENTRY, subject to availability At the Future and Happiness Research Institute, the team of specialists led by Dr. Phekta is searching for humanity's sense. In reality, this institute collects, stocks, analyzes, organizes the amount of habits, online profiles of people in order to sell them to decision makers. Part of Performative readings on texts by European and local playwriters By: Thomas Köck Translation: Ciprian Marinescu Cast: Ioana Cojocărescu, Bogdan Iancu, Mihai [...]
Whore (Performative reading)
26 October | 16:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall FREE ENTRY, subject to availability One morning, "WHORE" appears to have been written on a high school's front door, an anonymous insult that makes the story behind it come to surface. Amanda and Fran used to be a couple just a few months ago, a typical teenage love story whose relationship, eventually, ended. Part of Performative readings on texts by European and local playwriters By: José Padilla Translation: Alina Cantacuzino Cast: Cezara [...]
5 short plays (Performative reading)
29 October | 16:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall FREE ENTRY, subject to availability These five short plays – Memoria Apa by Teona Galgoțiu, Double Standard by Cornelia Iordache, White noise by Andrei Radu, Bra Bre Bri Bro Bru by Daria Ancuța, the real girl pixelated viruses and the memory of hair by Ioana Toloargă – have been selected in the Play readings module within the National Theatre Festival, the 2023 edition For the past month, the selected participants have had the opportunity to work with well-established playwrights, such as Bogdan Georgescu, Petro Ionescu and Elise Wilk, in [...]
Overheat (the apocryphal gospel of a family, a country) (Performative reading)
28 October | 16:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall FREE ENTRY, subject to availability In a psychiatric hospital waiting room, three brothers and two twins are waiting to visit their unwell brother. They all belong to a family that speaks for the society we live in. A dysfunctional family, with all its highlights and shadows. A family that speaks for a country's past but stays relatable in present day. Emphasised by the suffocating overheat and the screams of the unwell brother, the waiting becomes insufferable. [...]
Cosmic fright or the day Brad Pitt turned paranoid (performative reading)
24 October | 16:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall FREE ENTRY, subject to availability Cosmic fright or the day Brad Pitt turned paranoid is a reflection on individual and collective dilemmas regarding climate change, the moral responsibility we hold and the lack of action against a global threat. Part of Performative readings on texts by European and local playwriters By: Christian Lollike Translated by: Ovio Olaru Cast: Cătălina Mihai, Alex Bogdan, Sorin Miron Directed by: Mihai Gligan Stage design: Clara Ștefana Producer: [...]
One meter apart (Performative reading)
27 octombrie | 16:00 – I. L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall FREE ENTRY, subject to availability Presenting a childhood sexual abuse story, the play gets deep into the stormy waters of personal traumas, into how we live with them and what happens with us when we realise we can never erase them, but merely understand them. Part of Performative readings on texts by European and local playwriters. By: Antonio Castro Guijosa Translated by: Irina Călin Cast: Andreea Grămoșteanu, Diana Cavaliotti, Alina Rotaru, [...]
Viennese gods for borrowing, stoned witnesses (Theatre photography exhibition by Christine de Grancy)
Opening: 22 October | 16:00 – ARCUB, Lipscani Hall The exhibition can be visited as following: 20 October – 5 November 2023, between 10:00 and 18:00. FREE ENTRY As part of the NTF program, the Austrian Cultural Forum presents the theatre photography exhibition of Christine de Grancy, about the theatricality and symbolism of Vienesse architecture. The exhibition will be opened in the presence of the author, Christine de GRancy and that of her curator, the actress Mercedes Echerer. Author: Christine de Grancy Curator: Mercedes [...]