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THE CHERRY ORCHARD

 

by A.P. Cehov
translated to Romanian by Maria Rotar


director: Roberto Bacci
dramaturgy: Stefano Geraci
set and costume design: Adrian Damian
lighting designer: Jenel Moldovan
assistant directors: Maria Rotar, Francesco Puleo
set and costume design assistant: Florin Călbăjos
coordination of the illusionist sequence: Florin Suciu


Cast:
Ranevskaia Liubov Andreevna: Ramona Dumitrean
Ania: Alexandra Tarce
Varia: Anca Hanu
Gaev Leonid Andreevici: Ionuț Caras
Lopahin Ermolai Alexeevici: Sorin Leoveanu
Trofimov Piotr Sergheevici: Cristian Grosu
Simeonov-Piscik Boris Borisovici: Cătălin Herlo
Charlotta Ivanovna: Irina Wintze
Epihodov Semion Panteleevici: Radu Lărgeanu
Duniașa: Patricia Brad
Firs: Cornel Răileanu
Iașa: Matei Rotaru
Officer, Vagabond, Lackey: Miron Maxim
Instrumentiști: Pusztai Renato Aladar, Albert Gábor Balázs


stage manager: Doru Bodrea
lighting assistants: Alexandru Corpodean, Mădălina Mânzat
sound technician: Marius Rusu
prompter: Ana Maria Moldovan

This innovative and impressive approach to Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchardmarks a double celebration: 110 years since the play’s premiere on 17 January 1904 at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavski, and at the same time, 110 since the playwright’s death (2 June 1904).  


A symphony in white would be the proper name for this orchard because the stage is inundated by the color white: transparent white curtains which circumscribe the performance spaces, white flower petals fill the cherry orchard, being scattered both on stage and on the runway that leads to the auditorium. The auditorium chairs are also white, thus allowing the spectators to take part in the characters’ inner struggle. The only dark shade in this décor is represented by Lopakhin, the man of the matter, whose existence is divided between the practical world of the newly rich, and the world of the orchard, a world of gratuitous beauty. The orchard represents the melancholy, the past and the tranquility of the traditional world, a certain calmness, the harmony between man and nature, to which Lopakhin’s  modern, merchant-like, attitude appears as foreign and strange. The orchard belongs to a lost past, it is the orchard of the dead. The orchard re-echoes sounds, noises, nostalgia and disillusion which are all too familiar to every one of us.

 

Roberto Bacci is 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.
This is the Italian director’s second collaboration with the Cluj Napoca National Theatre. Two years ago, Roberto Bacci  directed in Cluj Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a highly successful production, currently in the repertoire of the Cluj Napoca National Theatre.


Ticket prices:

50 lei, 40 lei, 30 lei, 20 lei, 10 lei (depending on the seat location);

10 lei - discounts for pupils, students, pensioners.




Opening date: Sunday, April 27 2014

Main stage
16+
2h 30 min., cu o pauză