Flower Power - is the story of music band from the 70's which organizes a concert in John's memory, a former band member lost at war. It is a production on delirious texts by Jim Morrison, the leader of The Doors and a reflection on the lost souls of the soldiers after a war that the flower power youth of America never wanted.
Director - Sorin Misirianţu
Live music - Cătălin Condurache and Sandy Deac
Cast:
John - Sorin Misirianțu
Percussion - Iulia Kocis
With the participation of the students - Anca Lăcusteanu, Adrian Balint, Ștefan Gheorghică, Alexandru Ciobanu
LECŢIA
by Eugène Ionesco
translated by Vlad Russo and Vlad Zografi
director: Mihai Măniuţiu
dramaturgy: Anca Măniuțiu
set design: Adrian Damian
costumes: Irina Moscu
choreography: Andrea Gavriliu
music: Şerban Ursachi
assistant director: Tudor Lucanu
Cast: Constantin Chiriac, Ofelia Popii / Florentina Țilea, Mariana Mihu, Veronica Arizancu, Emöke Boldizsár, Ioana Cosma, Serenela Mureșan, Veronica Popescu, Maria Soilică, Cristina Stoleriu, Alexandra Șerban, Codruța Vasiu.
After 21 years, the director Mihai Măniuțiu returns to one of the most fascinating Eugène Ionesco plays, The Lesson, and stages it at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. If the instrument of the great playwright is masking the unusual in the banal - an arithmetic lesson which leads to a philology lesson which, in its turn, leads to... murder - Mihai Măniuțiu operates the arithmetic of surprise and tension until near the end.
We know it is a play about manipulation, seduction, horrors, robotizing... but we will learn much more or recognize a few things about the civilization that "evolves" in far-away or nearby corners of the world and especially about how civilization "operates" within ourselves. Știm că este o piesă despre manipulare, seducție, orori, robotizare... însă vom afla mai mult sau vom recunoaște câte ceva despre felul în care civilizația „evoluează" în colțuri ale lumii mai îndepărtate sau mai aproape de noi și mai ales cum civilizația „operează" în noi.
„The Professor: ,You always have the tendency to add. You must also deduct. You not only have to integrate. You must also disintegrate. Such is life. Such is philosophy. Such is science. Such is progress, civilization." (Eugène Ionesco, The Lesson)
"«The Lesson» is a very powerful political text, one of the most subtle, yet generous texts - in the sense that it is composed and structured in such a manner that you can reflect in its mirrors all types of dictatorships, all political acts that aim at dehumanizing, at the destroying the human individuality and freedom. The genocide, the brainwashing, the ethnic cleansings, the mass-murders, they all occur under our eyes. We can no longer pretend we don't know. We live in a world in which we are all interconnected. Those who pretend they don't know want to keep their eyes closed. Productions such as Ionesco's « The Lesson» tell them to open their eyes. You cannot get rid of your nightmares by pretending you play in a faerie." (Mihai Măniuțiu)
On 6 April 2015, at 5pm, in the "Art Club" Studio of the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre, Andrej and Teresa Welminski invite you to a public meeting, celebrating 100 years since the birth of Tadeusz Kantor.
Polish Theatre director, set designer, actor, painter, emballage creator ("Emballage Manifesto", 1964) and theoretician, Tadeusz Kantor was born on 6 April 1915 in Wielopole Skrzynski, and died on 8 December 1990, conducting his activity mostly in Cracow. He is one of the top representatives of Polish Avant-garde, a true revolutionary of performance art, his most important productions being The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985), or I shall never return (1988). He is the founder of the Cricot 2 Theatre company, together with which, starting with 1955, he created perfomances and happenings presented in Poland and around the world.
Andrej Welminski is a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Art from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Actor and director, Andrej Welminski was one of the close collaborators of Tadeusz Kantor. From 1973 to 1990, he was part of all the productions and tours of the famous Cricot 2 Theatre. He currently organizes conferences and workshops based on the history, theory (philosophy) and stage practice of the Cricot 2 Theatre.
Teresa Welminski graduated from the Medical High School of Cracow in 1976. She collaborated with Tadeusz Kantor for almost 20 years, acting in all the major productions of the Cricot 2 Theatre. As of 1990, together with Andrej Welminski, she directs performances and conducts specialized workshops.
Entrance is free, according to availability.
On 27 March 2015, on the occasion of World Theater Day, Cluj-Napoca National Theatre organizes the 6th edition of the event DOORS OPEN DAY.
The event will take place from 10:00 to 19:00, according to the following program:
Events for children:
10:00-11:30 - Main Stage
Performance for children: EVERLASTING YOUTH based on Petre Ispirescu’s story, with Marian Râlea
11:00-14:00 - Foyer, 2nd floor
Face painting and moldable balloons (Boom Party Club)
11:30-12:00 - Foyer, 2nd floor, left
Story corner: APOLODOR by Gellu Naum, read by the actors Elena Ivanca and Cătălin Codreanu
12:30-14:00 - Foyer, 2nd floor, left
Creative theater workshop for children ages 5 and12 coordinated by Diana Buluga and Raluca Lupan (Create.Act.Enjoy) - registration is a prerequisite (details at www.teatrulnationalcluj.ro)
Events for adults:
14:00-14:20 and 15:30-15:50
Fragments for the Commedia dell’arte performance Love is a nightmare. Or it can be..., script and directors: Mara Opriş and Ionuţ Caras (Faculty of Theater and Television, BBU Cluj)
14:30-15:00 - Foyer, 2nd floor, left
Recital of old music from the Maramureş area (quitar and voice), led by Cătălin Dumitraş and Lucian Iluţ
16:00-16:50 - Foyer, 2nd floor, left
Debate: Theater and society - Ştefana Pop-Curşeu in dialogue with Claudiu Groza, Ioan Pop-Curşeu and Miki Branişte
17:00-17:50 - Main Stage
Open rehearsal, followed by discussions with the artists
18:00-19:00 - Main Stage
The special guest of the event, the actor MARCEL IUREŞ, in a discussion with the director MIHAI MĂNIUŢIU - followed by a Q&A session with the audience and an autograph session.
Special events:
12:00-14:00 and 15:00-17:00
Theatre trivia - Foyer, last floor
12:00-16:00
Backstage visits, guided by the actors
14:00-16:00
Lighting installation - "Euphorion" Studio
14:00-17:00
Living Statues (Create.Act.Enjoy)
Throughout the event:
· Theater photo exhibition by Nicu Cherciu - Foyer, 2nd floor, left
· The Cluj-Napoca National Theater bookstore and Bookstory bookstore - Foyer, Ground floor
· Exhibition and sale with objects designed by disabled children (Derzelas Association) - Foyer, Ground floor
· Doamna T Café - Foyer, last floor
