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Radu Afrim

About

Radu Afrim (born in Beclean) is a creator with a distinct vision, the space he imagined is unmistakable, sensitive, prospective and introspective at the same time.

Three-time winner of the UNITER Award for Directing. in 2008, he was awarded the Coup de Coeur de la Presse Award at the Avignon Off Festival for the performance "Mansarde à Paris/ Les détours Cioran" based on a text by Matei Vișniec. In 2009, his show at the National Theater in Timișoara "Boala familiei M", was invited for a series of ten performances at the Théâtre de l'Odéon Paris.

In 2017, Radu Afrim meets for the first time the band of the National Craiovean and wonders with them how "If we thought aloud" - a show loved by a large and diverse audience, after a play by the young Bosnian playwright Adnan Lugonić.

Cristina Rusiecki wrote a book about him and his creation: Radu Afrim. The tissues of fragility, Tracus Publishing House, 2012, 2016 (English version).

In 2016 Radu Afrim was decorated with the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight, category D Performing Arts.

Among the shows performed in the last two years are:

"The retro bird hits the block and falls on the hot asphalt" > – National Theater from Târgu Mureş – Company "Tompa Miklós" Târgu Mureş, 2017;

"Job's Slaughterhouse" - "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theater Iași, 2017;

"If we thought out loud" – National Theater "Marin Sorescu" Craiova, 2017;

"Wolfgang" – Youth Theater from Piatra Neamț, 2017;

"A child from flowers tells a story on a blue background" - "Tamási Áron" Theater Sfîntu Gheorghe, 2018;

"About people and potatoes" - "Andrei Muresanu" Theater Sfîntu Gheorghe, 2018;

"Rabenthal" – Hungarian State Theater "Csiky Gergely" Timisoara, 2018;

"Beţie" - National Theater in Târgu Mureş - "Tompa Miklós" Company Târgu Mureş, 2018;

"Forest of the hanged" - National Theater "I.L. Caragiale" Bucharest - 2018;

“The Delhi Dance. Seven plays in one act" - "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theater Iași, 2019

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