The National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca is glad to announce that actor ANTON TAUF will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award within the 2018 UNITER Gala.
Honored through this award, our colleague joins the ranks of illustrious names of the Romanian theatre. Thus, based on proposals made by theatres and members of the UNITER Senate, the Senate session of 26.02.2018 decided awarding the following: the Outstanding Achievement Award to actor HORAȚIU MĂLĂELE, the Lifetime Achievement Award to actress ILEANA STANA-IONESCU, to director ALEXANDRU DABIJA, to scenographer DORU PĂCURAR, and the Award for Theatre Criticism and History, to Mrs. SORINA BĂLĂNESCU.
An iconic figure of the National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca, actor Anton Tauf has been serving the stage for more than forty five years, since he graduated the Theatre Institute from Bucharest, professors: Beata Fredanov and Octavian Cotescu (1968).
Tauf worked with important contemporary directors, from Vlad Mugur to György Harag, Aureliu Manea, Mircea Marin, Alexa Visarion, Alexandru Tatos, Alexandru Dabija. But his longest and most successful journey was along Mihai Măniuțiu, whose stage direction helmed memorable performances, most famous of which was W. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Anton Tauf's Antony was unanimously praised by critics. Victor Parhon wrote after the performance: "Another reason to praise Mihai Măniuțiu is his role in revealing Anton Tauf as one of the most gifted and most important actors of his generation, who is able to support with brilliance and strength roles of great complexity and range, such as this Antony, a peak of his acting achievements from the National Theatre of Cluj". His noble character and elevated perspective upon the mission of the artist led him to "an exemplary professional discipline, a ruthless self-exigency, a religious attitude towards the art", as observed by Justin Ceuca.
Actor, professor, theatre director - these are avatars of the complete and complex artist Anton Tauf, so that The Lifetime Achievement Award comes to crown this exceptional journey.
UNITER has also announced the list of nominations for the 2017 Theatre Awards, which you can find here. For the 26th edition of the UNITER Awards Gala, the members of the jury of nominations were theatre critics Ludmila Patlanjoglu, Călin Ciobotari, Alina Epîngeac.
This year's UNITER Awards Gala will take place on 7 May, in Alba Iulia.
The National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca congratulates all nominated artists and all artists that will be awarded at the Gala!
