PROGRAM - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL - CRAIOVA

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
CRAIOVA – ROMANIA
23 April – 4 May 2010
P R O G R A M

Friday, April 23
18:30
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “Amza Pellea” Hall
The Official Opening of the International Shakespeare Festival
Opening Addresses:      Radu BELIGAN, Honorary President of the International Shakespeare Festival
Emil BOROGHINĂ, Founding Director of the Shakespeare International Festival
Mircea CORNIŞTEANU, General Manager of the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre

19:00
Hamlet – performed by the O.K. Municipal Theater of Vilnius (Lithuania), directed by Oskar KORSUNOVAS
INTERMISSION: Theatre Foyer
Exhibition Openings

• Hamlet on Romanian Stages – Documentary Exhibition by Cristian PICU
• Hamlet – Translations and Exegeses – Book Exhibition
• The Hamletian Universe – Art Exhibition. Contributors: Livia BALU (Switzerland), Amalia CALUJNAI, Mădălina DINA (France), Raluca VEBER, Alexandru NEAGU (Portugal), Diana IACOB, Eduard IACOB-SPĂTARU (Austria), Sasha MERET (USA), Hermina CSATA, Flavia DINCĂ, Roberta IONESCU, Iulia TEUTAN, Lucian IONESCU, Constantin PLĂVIŢU, Mircea POPESCU, Gabi VĂCUŢĂ, Lucian IRIMESCU (Romania)
• Shakespeare and Hamlet – Philately Exhibition

22:00
INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE PRIZE AWARDING CEREMONY
Laureate: SILVIU PURCĂRETE
The Award will be offered by Mr. George BANU, Honorary President of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), President of the Board.

-         Award trophy by Dragoş BUHAGIAR; Festival trophy by Mihai ŢOPESCU; Sponsor of the Award: Banca Comercială Română (Romanian Commercial Bank)

Saturday, April 24
10:30
Venue: Dolj County Conference Hall
Shakespeare Theatre Studies – Great Hamlet Performances – organized in cooperation with the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC).
Moderators:     Ian HERBERT (UK) – IATC Honorary President; John ELSOM (UK) – IATC Honorary President; Ludmila PATLANJOGLU (Romania) – IATC Romania
Participants: George Banu, Monique Borie, Mirela Patureau (France), Maria Shevtsova (UK), Michel Vaïs (Canada), Piotr Gruszczynski, Andrzej Zurowski (Poland), Ramune Marcinkeviciute (Lithuania), Marina Davidova (Russia), Irina Gogoberidze (Georgia), David Esrig (Germany), Manabu Noda, Akihito Senda (Japan), Dongwook Kim (South Coreea), Marina Constantinescu, Alice Georgescu, Doina Modola, Natalia Stancu, Ion Parhon (Romania).
Opening  Address: Mr Yun Cheol KIM – IATC President

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre of Craiova, “Amza Pellea” Hall
Hamlet: A Monologue – an event-encounter with Robert WILSON followed by a video recording of his performance (Change performing Arts Milano Production)

INTERMISSION; Theatre Foyer
Book launch: Robert Wilson by Maria SHEVTSOVA, translated into Romanian by Odette BLUMENFELD and Oltiţa CÎNTEC (Bucharest: Camil Petrescu Foundation, Teatrul Azi).
Participants: Robert WILSON, Maria SHEVTSOVA, Odette BLUMENFELD, Oltiţa CÎNTEC. Introduced by: Florica Ichim and Octavian Saiu

Sunday, April 25
10:30
Venue: Dolj County Conference Hall
Shakespeare Theatre Studies – Great Hamlet Performances – organized in cooperation with the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC). – (Part II)

19:00
Venue: The “Elena Teodorini” Opera and Operetta Theatre
Hamlet performed by the Ryutopia Noh Theatre, Niigata, Japan, and directed by Yoshihiro Kurita

Monday, 26 April
10:30
Venue: Casa Universitarilor Craiova
Worldwide Hamlet in Performance and Translation – organized in cooperation with the European Shakespeare Studies Association (ESRA) and the Anglo-American Studies Department of the University of Craiova.
Moderators: Michael DOBSON (UK); Boika SOKOLOVA (UK); Nicoleta CINPOEŞ (UK), Emil SÎRBULESCU (România)
Participants: John Doe, Mika Eglington, Joan Griffith, Ros King, Seong-Kwan Cho, Saffron Josephine Walking (UK), Ishrat Lindblat (Sweden), Vasso Yannakopoulou (Greece), Olga Kubinska, Aneta Mancewicz (Poland), Veronika Schandl (Hungary), Darya Lazarenko, Victoria Marinesco (Ukraine), George Niagolov (Bulgaria), Vikas Yadav Raskar (India), Emi Hamana, Kaori Kobayashi (Japan), Odette Blumenfeld, Pia Brînzeu, Monica Chesnoiu, Dana Monah, Mădălina Nicolaescu, Dan Vasiliu, George Volceanov (Romania).
Honorary Guests: Stanley WELLS, Paul EDMONDSON
Opening Address: Professor Dr. Ion VLADIMIRESCU, Rector of the University of Craiova

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre of Craiova, “Amza Pellea” Hall
Hamlet – performed by the Polski Theatre of Wroclaw, Poland, directed by Monica PECIKIEWICZ

Tuesday, 27 April
10:30
Venue: Casa Universitarilor Craiova
Worldwide Hamlet in Performance and Translation – organized in cooperation with the European Shakespeare Studies Association (ESRA) and the Anglo-American Studies Department of the University of Craiova. (Part II)

17:00
Venue: Museum of Art
Exhibition Opening: Hamlet and the Lights of Glass, by Mihai ŢOPESCU, introduced by Florin ROGNEANU (Director of the Art Musum), followed by the art documentary, Anatomy of Glass, by Mihai ŢOPESCU and Cristian DRĂGAN.

19:30
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, the Foyer of the “I. D. Sîrbu” Studio
Exhibition opening: Hamlet the Thinker, by Dana ANUŞCA and Florin GRĂDINARU.

20:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, the Foyer of the “I. D. Sîrbu” Studio
Hamlet – Theatre workshop organized by the “Sfumato” Theatre Laboratory of Sofia (Bulgaria), directed by Margarita MLADENOVA and Ivan DOBCEV.

Wednesday, 28 April
10:30
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, the Foyer
Book launches

• Shakespeare’s Sonnets, by Stanley WELLS and Paul EDMONSON (translated into Romanian by Iolanda MĂNESCU and Aloisia ŞOROP.
• Hamlet or the Temptation of the Possible, by Ion OMESCU (translated into English by Maria IVĂNESCU)
• Sonnets, by William Shakespeare (translated into Romanian by Violeta POPA)
• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (translated into Romanian by George VOLCEANOV)
• In Search of Lost Space, by Octavian SAIU (translated into Romanian by Ioana JUCAN).

Participants: Stanley WELLS, Paul EDMONDSON, Octavian SAIU, George VOLCEANOV, Violeta POPA, Iolanda MĂNESCU, Aloisia ŞOROP, Călin VLASIE, Florea FIRAN, Nicolae MARINESCU. Introduced by: Emil SÎRBULESCU and Ludmila PATLANJOGLU.

12:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, the Foyer
Book launch

• Shakespeare: the world’s a stage – an anthology of Shakespeare studies edited and commented by George BANU (translated into Romanian by Ileana LITTERA and Ioana IERONIM).

Participants: George BANU, Ioana IERONIM, Ileana LITTERA, Valentin NICOLAU, Dana MOROIU. Introduced by: Cristiana MODREANU.

17:00 Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, General Manager’s Office: BOARD MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALS

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “Amza Pellea” Hall
Hamlet – performed by the Theatre Academy of Shanghai (China), directed by Richard SCHECHNER.

Thursday, April 29
10:30
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “I. D. Sîrbu” Studio
Hamlet (Act I) – A Study

Theatre workshop organized by the First year MA students, Actor’s Art Department, “I. L. Caragiale” National Theatre and Film University Bucharest

12:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, Theatre Foyer
Exhibition Opening
Exhibition of Elizabethan costumes prepared by the MA students in Stage Design  – “I.L. Caragiale“ National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest  Coordinated by Prof. dr. Ştefania CENEAN

19:00
Venue: Cetate Cultural Port
Hamlet 24:00 – a one-man show, performed Piotr KONDRAT (Warsaw, Poland)
Renaissance Music Concert – performed by Andy ROUSE (UK) and the “Simply English” Group (Gyor, Hungary)

Friday, April 30
10:30
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, the Foyer
Books, CD’s and DVD’s Launches

• Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Romania 1778-2008: A Study in Translation, Performance and Cultural Adaptation by Nicoleta CINPOEŞ (Leviston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010)

Participants: Nicoleta CINPOEŞ, Michael DOBSON, April Chaplin, Emil SÎRBULESCU; Introduced by: George VOLCEANOV

• Hamlet after Hamlet – audio CD containing five radio programs by Ion PARHON, edited by Mariana Ciolan, and produced by Radio Romania Cultural

Participants: Ion PARHON, Mariana CIOLAN, Atilla VIYAUER; Introduced by: Ludmila PATLANJOGLU

• The International Shakespeare Festival – The 6th Edition – DVD, produced and directed by Laurenţiu DAMIAN; co-producer: Ilarian ŞTEFĂNESCU Participants: Laurenţiu DAMIAN, Ilarian ŞTEFĂNESCU; Introduced by: Ludmila PATLANJOGLU
• Reading Shakespeare: Hamlet and Other Essays by Andrzej ZUROWSKI, translated into Romanian by Cristina GODUN. (Bucharest: “Camil Petrescu” Foundation, Teatrul Azi, 2010). The volume is published with the support of the Polish Institute in Bucharest, under the logo of the European Network of Shakespeare Festivals.

Participants: Andrzej ZUROWSKI, Cristina GODUN, Jaroslaw GODUN. Introduced by: Florica ICHIM.

• Hamlet Performances, by Adrienne Darvay NAGZ, translated into Romanian by Roxana CROITORU; to be published by Sim Art Publishers under the logo of the European Network of Shakespeare Festivals. Participants: Adrienne Darvay NAGY, Roxana CROITORU, Demeter ANDRAS, Nicolae MARINESCU.

19:00
Venue: Oltenia Philharmonic of Craiova
Hamlet in Musical Creations – Symphonic concert performed by the orchestra of the Oltenia Philharmonic of Craiova, conducted by Romeo RÂMBU.

21:00
Venue: University of Craiova, Faculty of Agronomy, “Alexandru Buia” Auditorium

• Hamlet vs. Hamlet
  Stage encounter of Michael PENNINGTON and Ion CARAMITRU who have played the part of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Teatrul Bulandra, Bucharest.

Moderator: MarinaCONSTANTINESCU

• Book launch
  From Hamlet to Hamlet and Beyond by Mircea Morariu (Bucharest: “Camil Petrescu” Foundation and Teatrul Azi, 2010). Participants: Ion CARAMITRU, Mircea MORARIU. Introduced by: Prof. Florica ICHIM.

Saturday, May 1
9:00
Venue: Library of the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre
Theatre Studies Workshop (Part I) organized in cooperation with the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) and the Department of Theatre Studies, Cultural Management and Theatre Journalism of the “I. L. Caragiale” National Theatre and Film University of Bucharest.
Coordinators: Paulo CARVALHO (IATC – Portugal), Carmen STANCIU (IATC – Romania).

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “Amza Pellea” Hall
Hamlet – performed by the Schaubuhne Theater of Berlin (Germany), directed by Thomas OSTERMEIER

Sunday, May 2
9:00
Venue: Library of the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre
Theatre Studies Workshop (Part II)

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “I. D. Sîrbu” Studio
Just Hamlet – an essay-performance by the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre in cooperation with the Oltenia Philharmonic of Craiova, directed by Alina RECE.

Monday, May 3
9:00
Venue: Library of the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre
Theatre Studies Workshop (Part III)

11:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “I. D. Sîrbu” Studio
Just Hamlet – a movie on the Hamletian Universe as seen in everyday life. Script: Bogdan Cristian DRĂGAN. Directed by: Bogdan Cristian DRĂGAN.

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “Amza Pellea” Hall
Hamlet – performed by Street Theatre Group, Miriang City (South Corea), directed by Lee Yun TAEK.

Tuesday, May 4
9:00
Venue: Library of the “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre
Theatre Studies Workshop (Part IV)

19:00
Venue: “Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, “Amza Pellea” Hall
Hamlet – performed by the Meno Fortas Theatre in Vilnius (Lithuania), directed by Eimuntas NEKROSIUS.

23:00
OFFICIAL CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL