Interview Peter Seynaeve, Belgian actor and director: “The most important aspect of working with children is creating a safe, trusting space.”
It's completely normal to involve children in performances for adults. The idea of banning children from being on stage, as it was in ancient Greece, would be foolish today. Of course, people have opinions about what children should be allowed to do on stage and what types of plays they should be part of.
13th Grand Prix Nova
Radio Romania announces the launch of 13th Grand Prix Nova, International Radio Drama Festival that will take place in Bucharest between the 15th and 20th of June.
The black swans of our times
The role of ballet, the stage form the play takes, is not to impress with virtuosity but to transform the literary material into a comedy of manners. The humor of this swan lake, with dancers who don’t rise onto their toes or execute perfect pirouettes, brings to light the human limitations of the characters.
The role of ballet, the stage form the play takes, is not to impress with virtuosity but to transform the literary material into a comedy of manners. The humor of this swan lake, with dancers who don’t rise onto their toes or execute perfect pirouettes, brings to light the human limitations of the characters.
A feminist film, as well as an overt critique of the neoliberal society which took over Eastern Europe in very aggressive forms after 1989, ”Don’t expect too much from the end of the world” is a way to fight back using images from the archives, a favorite means of the award-winning Romanian film director Radu Jude.
Of course, there are more questions than answers in this smart and sometimes funny despite the subject production directed by Lila Neuberger, and this is how it should be. The inspired directorial decision to place it in the round space of The Anspacher at the Public Theater, with almost no stage design, except the lights and some chairs, reminds us that theatre is an agora where concepts like democracy can and should be revisited and in-depth analyzed.
Connected by THE GHOST OF A HISTORY TEACHER, two pairs of characters, two teens and their respective grandfathers, from two geographically distinct places, Romania and the United States, have a chance to break all walls and look at the map of the world via theatrical devices and chance encounters.
We also announced the transformation of the festival into a seasonal international programme and the end of the Mladi Levi Festival in its festival form. The 2005 festival was scattered throughout the season, with the Old Power Station still finding its rhythm of functioning.
