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The curatorial team of the National Theatre Festival - Mihaela Michailov, Călin Ciobotari and Ionuț Sociu, have considered over 250 performances from Romania, the Republic of Moldova, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Serbia. The curators hereby present the motivation of their choices, the structure and components of the upcoming edition of the Romanian National Theatre Festival.   Constructed under the umbrella DRAMATURGIES OF THE POSSIBLE, the 34th edition of the National Theatre Festival (October 18 – 27, 2024) continues the shift of emphasis from the idea of selection to the idea of curatorship. Therefore, the performances that will be presented this fall in Bucharest do not constitute a simple showcase of the 2023-2024 Romanian theatre season, they do rather represent the options resulting from the curatorial criteria below: Dramaturgy as a decisive element of performance The concept of the current edition, focused on the formula dramaturgies of the possible, produced the major criteria in relating to the performances considered. We tried to follow the way in which the spectacular construction privileges and values a solid dramaturgical background, in [...]