Of madness and lucidity – HENRY THE FOURth was selected for the Romanian National Theatre Festival

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Of madness and lucidity – HENRY THE FOURth was selected for the Romanian National Theatre Festival

Our production Henry the Fourth - stage director Victor Ioan Frunză - will be performed on October 22nd at the Bucharest Odeon Theatre as part of the Romanian National Theatre Festival 2019. Theatre-lovers in Timișoara can enter Pirandello's universe on Tuesday, October 8th, 7 p.m., in the theatre's Main Hall. The performance has Romanian translation.

The play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1921 is among the most demanding dramatical classical texts - for directors and actors alike, faced with the complex part of the young man pretending to have gone mad, ultimately losing control of his pretend-madness. The main character is portrayed by Balázs Attila, and the story questions the fragile line between fiction and reality. The uniqueness of this performance is the impressive setdecor designed by Adriana Grand, as well as live music performed by 15 musicians, led by music composer Cári Tibor. „Henry the Fourth is a superbe artistic interrogation. An art performance, as few directors still dare to create, a clear example of „theatre which breathes", to quote Peter Brook, in this theatre world overcome with superficial or dying theatre...", is what Monica Andronescu wrote about this performance for Yorick Magazine. The first performance took place in March 2019.

„Henry the 4th" continues the collaboration between stage director Victor Ioan Frunză and scenographer Adriana Grand and the Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre, after having createad several impressive performances: „Lorenzaccio" (1998), „The Lesson" (2001), „How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" (2003), „Hamlet" (2003, 2004) and, most of all, „Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead", which has received the Award for Best Performance in Romania in 2009.
 

Tickets for the show on the 8th of October can by purchased at the theatre, costing 24 lei (12 lei discounted), Mo-Fri 10:00-13:00 and 16:00-19:00 or online www.biletmaster.ro The duration of the performance is two hours and reservations can be made via ticket@tm-t.ro or 0751111803. Translation is only available in Romanian.

Photo by Adriana Grand

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