On 15 August 2012, Cluj-Napoca National Theatre started the rehearsals for three productions to be opened in September. Two of them are to be presented in the Main Auditorium: HAMLET by W. Shakespeare, which will open on 16 September and THE IDIOT based on F.M. Dostoyevsky’s novel, which will open on 4 October (with a preview performance on 29 September). THE WAY TO THE INDIES by Ovidiu Pecican and Alexandru Pecican will open on 23 September 2012 at Cluj-Napoca National Theatre’s "Euphorion" Studio.
HAMLET by William Shakespeare is directed by Roberto Bacci, Artistic Manager and founder of Fondazione Pontedera Teatro in Italy.
Fondazione Pontedera Teatro, which uses this name since 1999, was established in 1974 as Centro per la Sperimentazione e la Ricerca Teatrale (The Center for Theatre Experiment and Research). Inspired by the Living Theatre, its founders created "a theatre which was needed by very few at the beginning, handmade, poor and megalomaniac, but envisioned for a large scale; isolated, at the beginning, in the little town where it started, but starting connections with theatres from a great distance (first of all Eugenio Barba’s Odin Teatret and Jerzy Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre)" - www.pontederateatro.it. Since 2002, Fondazione Pontedera Teatro is the theatre coordinator of Fabbrica Europa Festival, the most important and well known Contemporary Art Festival in Toscana.
Roberto Bacci is the one who, in 1985, together with Carla Pollastrelli, invited Jerzy Grotowski to Pontedera, in order to create an Institute in which he could undertake systematic research. Since 1986, Grotowski moved to Pontedera where he established, the same year, the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski, and where he remained until his death in 1999.
Roberto Bacci worked at numerous theatre productions, in Italy and abroad, together with renowned artists such as Peter Brook, Anatoli Vasiliev, Raul Ruiz, Sanjukta Panigrahi, Julian Beck and Judith Malina. Between 1978 and 1987 he was the Artistic Manager of the Santarcangelo di Romagna International Theatre Festival, and between 1990 and 1998 he was the director of the International Festivals Volterra Teatro and Passaggio a Pontedera (the last one known since 2000, as Generazioni).
Roberto Bacci is a Theatre Studies graduate with the thesis "Theatre and Alchemy" about Eugenio Barba’s performance at the Odin Teatret, "Min Fars Hus". Since 1976 he directed numerous productions, at Piccolo Teatro di Pontedera and Compagnia Laboratorio di Pontedera. His performances were presented in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
THE IDIOT script by Anna Stigsgaard and Ştefana Pop-Curşeu, based on F.M. Dostoyevsky’s novel, is directed by Anna Stigsgaard from Denmark.
Anna Stigsgaard is a theatre director, musician, actor and translator. She studied Theatre Directing for two years with Eugenio Barba at Odin Teatret in Denmark and became associate director of this theatre. Also, she undertook directing studies at the Royal Opera in Denmark, where she had Kasper Holten as a professor, the director and manager of Royal Opera House in London. She later became the assistant director of the two for productions created between 2005 and 2010.
Anna Stigsgaard directed in Portugal, Italy, Brazil and Denmark, street performances, site specific performance and traditional productions.
She is an MA student in Comparative Literature and holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Arabic at the Copenhagen University.
The rehearsals for THE WAY TO THE INDIES by Ovidiu Pecican and Alexandru Pecican have started. Direction and designer: László Vadas. The production will reopen to the public the newly restyled "Euphorion" Studio. Together with four other productions based on plays written by playwrights from Cluj, this production will be presented during the Festival of Cluj Playwriting, organized by Cluj-Napoca National Theatre between 23-25 November 2012.
The 2012/2013 season will open on 16 September with HAMLET by W. Shakespeare.
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