{"id":163154,"date":"2021-01-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/romanian-theater-in-the-time-of-the-pandemic-163154.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:51:51","slug":"romanian-theater-in-the-time-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/world-of-culture\/romanian-theater-in-the-time-of-the-pandemic-id163154.html","title":{"rendered":"Romanian theater in the time of the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Romanian theater has been seriously
\naffected by the restrictions imposed during the pandemic, so much so that it
\nhad to find alternative ways to reach out to the usual stage audience.
\nPerformances could no longer be held outdoors, so the online environment was
\nthe support that enabled theater lovers to watch the actors on stage.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The day of September 21,
\n2020, 22:30, Bucharest Time, was another turning point in Romanian theater’s
\nactivity. We’re speaking about the moment of the UNITER Gala’s 28th
\nedition. Initially scheduled for the spring of 2020, the even was postponed
\nuntil the autumn equinox. In 2020, the UNITER Gala was held the southern
\nRomanian city of Craiova. It marked 170 years since the Marin Sorescu theater
\nhad been founded in Craiova, and was venued by the outdoor Summer Theater in
\nCraiova’s Nicolae Romanescu park. Radio Romania’s Culture Channel offered a
\nlive broadcast of the Gala, which could also be followed online, at www.tvr.ro<\/a> and www.uniter.ro.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

T<\/p>\n

he main organizer and initiator of the Gala was the
\nNational Union of Romanian Theaters, UNITER. It is a professional, apolitical,
\nnongovernmental and non-profit organization, which was set up through the free
\nassociation of creators in the field of Romanian theater. It was established in
\nFebruary 1990, so in 2020 UNITER celebrated its three decades of existence.
\nSince September 10, 2020, UNITER has launched the video promotion of the
\nartists who were nominated for the awards. Of course, several nominations were
\nmade based on the previous year’s achievements, according to the regulations.
\nSince September 14, all viewers could support their favorites, casting their
\nvote on www.uniter.ro<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

It may have been the venue of the event, or the
\nrestrictions that have been imposed in 2020, in other words, it was the triumph
\nof creativity over fear…all that put together bestowed a special power on the
\nUNITER Gala in 2020. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Theater critic and UNITER
\nmember Oana Cristea Grigorescu:<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The UNITER Galas have succeeded to
\nchange something, have rooted out that kind of conservatism in the way the Gala
\nhas been organized in the last 20 years. Everybody sensed, first of all, a
\nreshuffle of the format, which occurred not only due to the fact that the event
\nwas staged on outdoor premises, in Craiova…I believe all that was possible
\nespecially because of the trust the organizers put in the two producers of the
\nGala, stage director Bobi Pricop and stage designer Irina Moscu. An entire team
\nbacked them and everybody sensed the life-giving wind for this event…And we
\nalso fed ourselves with a dose of optimism provided by the way the Gala
\nunfolded – concisely, and in a clean manner. There was also something else,
\nmaybe the most important aspect. Some of the welcome speeches of the awardees
\ntackled an important issue. In Romanian culture, at least formally, but mainly
\nfrom an organizing point of view, there is a rift between the independent
\nartiss and the artists coming from subsidized institutions. The rift is false,
\nand the welcome speeches at the UNITER Gala focused on the very specific idea
\nwhereby it was about time we found administrative solutions to support the
\ndeserving independent artists. That should be done in such a way as to
\nacknowledge their contribution to the diversity of theater stage. At the end of
\nthe Gala, the president of UNITER and the manager of the National Theater in
\nBucharest, Ion Caramitru, pledged that solutions would be found to support
\nindependent theater. And that is a point of strategic importance. It is a type
\nof cultural policy UNITER vowed to implement henceforth.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The 30th edition of the National Theater
\nFestival in Bucharest was held over November 22 and 29, 2020. The event was
\nalso a premiere. We followed it online, at fnt.ro. The three personalities who
\nstage-directed and provided the selection of the program had a clear-cut
\nintention: that of setting up a dialogue between the aesthetics of yesterday’s
\ncreators and the present-day artistic quest. Radio Romania is one of the
\nevent’s traditional partners, hence the label of the festival’s; special
\nsection, FNT ON AIR. One of the event’s three driving forces was provided by
\nMaria Z\u0103rnescu, an associate professor with Bucharest University of Drama and
\nFilm. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Maria Zarnescu:<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Each of the posted events will be
\nthere for 48 hours, they will be available for revisiting if somebody so
\nwishes. It is, so to speak, crowded, since we wanted to revisit the festival’s
\npast, its three decades, that is. And we sometimes discovered remarkable acting
\nrecitals. And that, in close connection with the actor-stage
\ndirector-playwright three-way relationship. When the stuff we discovered was
\nshorter, we put all that together in a special section, labeled ‘The Great
\nActor’s Art.’ The section lays emphasis on actors who are very popular with the
\nRomanian audience, yet all the creators involved in the artistic pursuit are no
\nless important.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

There were, of course, noteworthy international guest
\nperformances presented as part of the FNT, Festivalul National de Teatru\/the
\nNational Theater Festival in Bucharest. Added to all that were the pandemic
\nproductions, such as ZOOM BIRTHDAY PARTY, based on a text by Saviana St\u0103nescu,
\ndirected by Beth Milles (SUA) or POOL (NO WATER) by Mark Ravenhill, a project
\ncarried by Radu Nica, Andu Dumitrescu and Vlaicu Golcea. <\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Romania’s stage artists were genuinely capable of
\nfinding solutions to analyze the present and their condition, in forms that
\nwould keep them connected to society, to its problems. Stage artists were also
\ncapable of coming up with solutions, simpler or more complex. Some of these
\nsolutions have already proved their feasibility. Perhaps they will make the new
\nlandmarks in Romanian performing arts as well. <\/p>\n

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