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, Oana Pușcatu
Directed by: Luiza Mihăilescu
Stage design: Clara Ștefana
Organizer: National Theatre Festival, Instituto Cervantes Bucharest and Fundación SGAE (through the TEatroAutor.es programme)
Duration: 1h 45 min
“What happened to me never happened. What happened is a big lie. An invention. Nobody knows what happened to me. I never talked about it. Because it never happened. What happened to me is so small that nobody can see it. Nobody cares. Nobody can see what doesn’t happen. This thing that never happened, happened too long ago. There’s no point in thinking about it. But it hurts. It shouldn’t hurt. But it does. It shouldn’t hurt. Because it didn’t happen. And yet it’s there. The memories. The suffocation. The disgust. The shame. All the rage. All the pain.” (Antonio Castro Guijosa)
Antonio Castro Guijosa is a director and playwright, nominated for Best Performance and Best Author Revelation at Max awards 2021, finalist at MET Awards 2021 for Best Author and Best Performance Revelation.
The performance will be followed by a meeting with the audience, in the presence of the author, to which the creative team and Alina Dumitru (social worker with a Transactional Analysis psychotherapy formation)
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Performative readings offer encounters with theatre plays that will be read for the first time in Romania and that address themes and subjects of aching realities.
If last year the performative readings were directed by Bobi Pricop, this year the selected texts would be directed by emerging directors: Anda Drăgan, Tania Drăghici, Mihai Gligan, Luiza Mihailescu, Larisa Popa, Monica Stoica.
Each performative reading will be followed by a meeting with the audience, with the participation of the creative team and a qualified expert on the subject matter.
As part of this module, a contest dedicated to promoting Romanian plays is being organised. Those who will be selected (text deadline: 10 August) will have the possibility to work for a month with established playwriters – Bogdan Georgescu, Petro Ionescu, Elise Wilk – in order to develop their texts. This way, NTF becomes a platform that allows the upcoming plays to be visible.
The performative-readings modules of NTF is coordinated by the director Bobi Pricop.