Costinela Ungureanu received the Award for the best actress in a leading role
at the UNITER Awards Gala
During the UNITER 2023 Awards Gala which took place on Monday, June 12, 2023, at the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theater in Timișoara, COSTINELA UNGUREANU won the Award for the best actress in a leading role, for the role of Elida Wangel, in the show "The Woman of the Sea" by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Andriy Zholdak.
The following actresses were nominated in the same category:
- Ada Lupu for the role of Beatrice Cenci in the show "Antonin Artaud. The Cenci Family", after Shelley and Stendhal, directed by Silviu Purcărete, "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theater Iasi
- Éva Imre for the role of Barbarian B in the show "Young Barbarians", inspired by the life of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, based on a text by Miklós Vecsei H. and improvisations by the creative team, directed by Attila Vidnyánszky Jr., Theater Cluj State Hungarian and the Cetate Theater in Gyula, Hungary.
„The show The Woman of the Sea is about Ellida. Ellida by director Zholdak. Ellida of the actress Costinela Ungureanu. A huge performance. Of the highest artistic caliber. From the beginning to the end. For almost four hours. A concentration from which the actress does not leave for a second. Play in trance everything. Otherwise, I don't even think he could do what he does. And how. Her body is like a musical instrument, with strings, many strings, which Zholdak touched and animated. There are thousands of strings that vibrate and the body sings. Every fiber in her body sings. Everything is musical. Every gesture, every invented step, the jumps, on two legs, on one leg, walking, all the routes, their repetitiveness, of the steps, of the gestures. Then the sounds turn into a line. All of Ellida's movement is a continuous line, the Graphics of these hallucinatory images. As powerful as Ellida's hallucinations. Like the upheavals of her body, her mind, her soul. And once it seems to fly, detach itself from the forms of the pathological and go. Somewhere. In the water, on a rock, underwater, in the sky, in the clouds. I do not know. Seconds. And again I see his eyes. Trance. The commotion. But also the Light. I follow her everywhere. I can't tear myself away from what I see. She jumps, soars, climbs, runs from one side of the stage to the other, jumps, soars, prays, sings her despair, a captive swan, obsessed with physical pleasure I don't even know if she's ever had. I don't know anything more than that I haven't seen anything like this in our country for a long time."
Marina Constantinescu, literary Romania nr. 13/2022
Show details: https://tncms.ro/spectacole/femeia-marii/
In the current season, Costinela Ungureanu plays in the shows The snows of yesteryear by Dumitru Solomon, directed by Mircea Cornișteanu, Băgău after Ioana Bradea, directed by Cristina Giurgea, The Miser by Molière, directed by Felix Alexa, dog with man. dog without man by Lia Bugnar, Dan Coman, Simona Goshu, Maria Manolescu, Oana Pellea, Radu Tudoran and Radu Afrim, directed by Radu Afrim, VIVA LA VULVA! by Marius Aldea, directed by Andrea Gavriliu, Think of Africa by Gordon Dryland, directed by Alexandru Boureanu, 1,2,3…BÉBÉ by André Roussin, directed by Alexandru Boureanu & Raluca Păun, TOC TOC de Laurent Baffie, regia Alexandru Boureanu&Raluca Păun, Heart and other meat preparations by Dan Coman, directed by Radu Afrim, Retroelectro directed by Bogdan Georgescu, Gaițele by Alexandru Kirițescu, directed by Alexandru Boureanu, Năpasta by I.L. Caragiale, directed by Kincses Elemèr.
