The Cluj-Napoca National Theatre is happy to announce that The International Meetings in Cluj, its annual festival, will this year take place from 16 to 20 October. Having reached its 13th edition, the festival will focus on the theme OTHERNESS.
Infusing in subtler or more overt ways the issues brought up by the most recent productions of the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre, the theme of “otherness” prompts reflection on essential questions that we will be exploring together with our guests, the local audience and theatre specialists from Romania and abroad, in our quest to enrich and to enlighten.
The event presents a selection of the best performances from the past season and a series of related complementary events, and is designed as a platform for artistic dialogue, meant to encourage collaboration in finding viable solutions for nurturing an educated, self-aware society, with a strong sense of responsibility towards the future.
This year’s programme will include the following Main Stage performances: Twelfth Night or What You Will, after William Shakespeare, directed by Botond Nagy; Le Piéton de l'air (A Stroll in the Air) by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Gábor Tompa; The King Stag by Carlo Gozzi, directed by Tudor Lucanu; We Bombed in New Heaven by Joseph Heller, directed by László Bocsárdi.
The theatre’s venue dedicated to new dramaturgies and theatrical experiment, the Euphorion Studio, will host the performances: Caesar’s Last Love by contemporary Romanian author Horia Gârbea, directed by Tudor Antofie; How Mr. Gherase Fell in Love with Clara Smith by the young contemporary Romanian author Cosmin Stănilă, directed by Doru Vatavului; Songs to Scare Away Fear, a concert-performance by Ada Milea based on ideas from texts by Herta Müller; The Servants of Beauty, inspired by the Bhagavad Gita, and directed by Çağlar Yiğitoğulları.
You can discover more about the event on our website: https://www.teatrulnationalcluj.ro/en/page-157/iic-2024-otherness/
Image: Curtain call at the 2023 edition of THE INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN CLUJ. Photo by Nicu Cherciu
