"Marin Sorescu" National Theater in Craiova presents a new project dedicated to young people
The official premiere of the show "Sand Birds" by Cristi Nedelcu, directed by Alexandru Boureanu and Raluca Păun will be played on Friday, October 6, from 6:00 p.m. at the Atelier hall and will be followed by a debate with students, parents and teachers present, starting from the topic of the play: human trafficking and raising community awareness of this phenomenon.
Cast: Alina Mangra, Roxana Mutu, Maria Popa, Mircea Mogoșeanu, Cosmin Radescu, Dragoș Măceșanu, Gabriel Marciu.
The show's creative team includes: Lia Dogaru – scenography, Florin Constantinescu – video concept.
"The project started as a proposal by the playwright Cristi Nedelcu, and with this text we actually initiated a project to signal public opinion regarding a phenomenon often encountered in Romanian society - the trafficking of live meat. This project has also been submitted to the Ministry of the Interior and the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons, and we hope that after this premiere, in partnership with these competent bodies, with the Ministry of Education and the School Inspectorates, we will carry out a public awareness and awareness campaign on this phenomenon very widespread in Romania, the trafficking of both girls and young boys, who are taken for exploitation abroad.
The show is designed not only for the presentation to the theater audience, but aims at a discussion with the teenagers at the end of the show about the subject of the text, about this phenomenon so harmful to the Romanian society and not only, in general, the Balkan society.
We wanted to make a clean show from an artistic point of view because its main purpose is the alarm signal imposed by the text of the writer Cristi Nedelcu. Sandbirds must be seen, must be assimilated by the public and then must be promoted in order to protect these ladies and, why not, gentlemen, who are at risk of being trafficked by people interested in profiting from naiveties."
Alexandru Boureanu
Synopsis
A cop who chooses to break one of the basic rules of his job. A professional accomplice fuels his indecision. Without realizing it, reality is no longer what it seems. How can his daughter be lured by the very individuals he is supposed to protect her from, according to the "job description"? Seemingly minor conflicts gradually degenerate until more lives are destroyed. The one who seduces and exploits her is a young dreamer - like her. The dream breaks - destroyed lives can only be recovered in memory.
"The text Sand Birds is my second foray into the universe of parent-adolescent relationships, after Paso Doble. I think it is one of the important problems of today's society. And not only from today. Ultimately, Romeo and Juliet is also a play about the relationship between young people and their parents. Somehow, it's still a mystery to me how the rebellious teenagers of yesterday turn into the parents who don't get along with the rebellious teenagers of today. And these problems, which, I know, have been around since time immemorial, overlap, or better said, intertwine with the forces of today's society."
Sand birds it is not just a text about human trafficking and how one ends up in this mixer of lives and destinies. It is also an attempt to put a mirror in front of today's society."
Cristi Nedelcu
Cristi Nedelcu(b. 1969) writer, journalist and blogger. He debuted in 1992 in the magazine "Dilema" and collaborated with several literary magazines - "Dilema", "Scrisul Românesc", "Mozaicul" and was active in the print media and in television. In 2001, in Târgoviște, he won the 2nd prize at the National Literature Competition for the play "From which side of the bars?" and in 2006, the "Tiberiu Iliescu" prize of of "Mozaicul" magazine.
He is the author of the volumes "Notes on Shakespeare/ Essays on Shakespeare"/2006, "Canonul marginalului"/2006, the theater volume "Bad News" /2008, "The whole world is a stage/the whole world is a show. Cultural paradigms of societies"/2013. In 2020, he published the short prose volume "Graffiti" and the novel "Roses Cemetery" which received the special award of the Craiova branch of the Writers' Union.
In 2016, he obtained the title of doctor in philology with the thesis "Semiotics of the bank", a work published this year at the Junimea publishing house.
He has plays staged at the Anton Pann Theater in Râmnicu Vâlcea (”Paso Doble”) and the Tony Bulandra Theater in Târgoviște ("The Old Man, the Girl and the Library").
He is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union and PEN Club Romania. Writes on the blog Graffiti pe nori - cristinedelcu.ro .
The following performances are scheduled for February 2024, but the show can be organized at the request of educational institutions (Contact person: Jeni Topala, tel. 0773.773.990)
Contact the theater agency:
Alexandru Ioan Cuza Street, no. 11, in the theater building
Phone: 0251.413.677
Schedule: Monday – Friday: 11:00 – 19:00; Saturday – Sunday: 12:00 – 19:00
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