In 29 years of post-communist
\nfreedom, Sibiu is for the 26th time playing host for the most
\nimportant festival of performing arts in Romania. The festival has been
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The festival’s cultural offer is
\nextremely rich: the most representative productions of major theatre troupes in
\nRomania, famous international theatre performances, street performances on a
\ndaily basis in various places around the city, as well as in its medieval
\ncitadels or fortified churches. Part of the performances under the aegis of
\nthis festival will be also hosted by stages in Romania’s capital city
\nBucharest, in Cluj, north-western Romania or Medias, in the center. <\/p>\n
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According to critics, the
\nInternational Theatre Festival (FITS) was the main argument in favour of
\nobtaining by Sibiu the status of European Capital of Culture in 2007, the very
\nyear of Romania’s entry into the European Union. Thanks to the market offer
\ncreated by this festival through the Stage Performance Exchange, the Radu
\nStanca National Theatre in Sibiu has been attending the most important
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According to Constantin Chiriac,
\nthe festival’s founder and president, this year’s edition, due to unfold over
\nJune 14th and 23rd, includes 540 events involving 3,300
\nartists from 73 countries, who will be performing in 75 spaces in front of 70
\nthousand spectators per day. These figures, he says, are placing FITS on the
\nfirst position in a world ranking as a unique festival. <\/p>\n
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During this edition of the
\nfestival, six leading figures of the world theatre are to be given a star on
\nthe Walk of Fame in Sibiu. According to the French ambassador in Bucharest,
\nMichele Ramis, the International Theatre Festival in Sibiu is part of
\nRomania-France cultural season, and no less than 28 theatre companies from
\nFrance are to arrive in Sibiu to perform in 76 shows. <\/p>\n
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The embassies of Japan, Germany,
\nIsrael, China and Britain are also partners of this festival, a strategic
\nobjective of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, which, jointly with the local
\nadministration is the main funder of the event, that also has the support of
\nthe European Commission, the foreign embassies and cultural centers in Romania
\nas well as of various international networks and private sponsors. <\/p>\n
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For the first time last year, FITS
\nhad two honorary patrons, the president of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, who used to
\nbe Sibiu’s mayor for 14 years, and the heir of the British crown, Prince
\nCharles, known for his passion for Transylvania, where he has several
\nproperties, as well as for the Saxon medieval architecture. <\/p>\n
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