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.
Part of Performative readings on texts by European and local playwriters
By: Lola Blasco
Translated by: Florin Galiș
Cast:
Marin Grigore, Cezar Grumăzescu, Ciprian Nicula, Ana Dumitrașcu, Silvana Mihai, Daniel Achim
Directed by: Larisa Popa
Stage design: Clara Ștefana
Producer: National Theatre Festival, 2023
Co-producer: Instituto Cervantes Bucharest
With the help of: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (TeatroAutor.es programme)
Duration: 1h 45 min
Lola Blasco is a drama author, director, actress and teacher. As a playwriter, she published approximately ten plays and directed approximately twenty performances, both for public and private theatres. She won awards like The National Award for Drama Literature in 2016, the Comtemporary Playwriting Fund of Pavón-Kamikaze Theatre 2018, the SGAE (IV Laboratorio de Escritura Teatral) fund in 2016 and the Dramaturgias Actuales Fund offered by INAEM in 2015.
The performance will be followed by a meeting with the audience, in the presence of the author, to which the creative team and Mugur Ciumăgeanu (clinician psychologist) will also participate.
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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.
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.