THE SNOWS OF ONCE UPON A TIME
The premiere of the season finale at the Craiove National
The season finale brings to the stage of the "Marin Sorescu" National Theater a new show directed by him Mircea Cornișteanu and the scenography signed by Puiu Antemir.
Based on the play written by Dumitru Solomon, THE SNOWS OF ONCE UPON A TIME brings together an exceptional cast: Cerasela Iosifescu, Adrian Andone, Costinela Ungureanu, Cătălin Mihai-Miculeasa, Raluca Păun, Nicolae Vicol , Cosmin Rădescu.
The show will take place on Saturday, June 24 and Sunday, June 25, from 19:00, at Sala Amza Pellea.
The show "Old Snows" is a guaranteed home success: the experience of the director and the supple, intelligent writing of Dumitru Solomon lead to an infallible recipe.
He (Adrian Andone), impetuously and romantically advances in the territories of carnal love trying to stun Ea (Cerasela Iosifescu), in a pathetic unleashing of courtly love, with native inflections. He wants the passionate kiss, She anticipates the thrill of the wild heart: "why does love hurt?" Too young to need other qualities, He strings together platitudes, truisms, cosmic fantasies ("I love you endlessly, as much as the Universe, as much as Time") while She, still wary, just wants to be loved "terribly much" . Rica and Zita are not too far away, only in the 19th century...
Even Dolphis, the statue in the square under which they know each other, is revolted by so much amorous languor and lightness of being - he comes to life to come down from the plinth to make fun of the lovers dizzy with love and grandiloquence; life is not poetry, even if it can be a dream. They will wake up from this dream in time when the routine installs its killing device. Love turns into marriage.
The marital bed turned battlefield will reveal to the audience what we (almost) all know: Love only lasts for 3 years (according to Beigbeder's formula, which Solomon knew first), sometimes not even that long.
Throughout a prodigious career, the director Mircea Cornișteanu performed over 160 shows on the stages of more than 25 professional theaters in the country (Nottara, Bulandra, National, Comedie, Ion Creangă in Bucharest, National Theaters in Craiova, Cluj, Târgu Mureș, Iași, or the municipal ones in Brașov, Galati, Piatra Neamț, Oradea, Ploiesti, etc.) and abroad (Poland, Armenia, Cyprus).
In 1990 he received ex-aequo the first UNITER Award for the show Unchiul Vania, produs la Teatrul Național din Craiova, în 2011 spectacolul Where's the revolver?, made at TVR, received the UNITER Award for the best TV theater show and in 2010 it received the UNITER Award for the entire activity. In 2004 he was decorated with the National Order "Faithful Service" in the rank of knight and is an honorary member of the "Marin Sorescu" National Theater in Craiova, of which he was the general director between 2000 and 2015.
Creator of the first Integrale Caragiale at the Craiova National Theatre, Mircea Cornișteanu is the first Romanian director to create a show based on the correspondence of I. L. Caragiale - Al matale, Caragiale – played in several theaters in the country and broadcast on TVR.
For the shows made throughout his career, he won more than 20 awards for direction or best show at various national and international festivals. Many of the great actors of the Romanian theater shone in his performances, including George Constantin, Radu Beligan, Octavian Cotescu, Mircea Albulescu, Ion Lucian, Ileana Stana-Ionescu, Ilie Gheorghe, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Vișan, Mariana Mihuț, Horațiu Mălăele, many of you obtaining numerous awards for the roles played in the performances staged by Mircea Cornișteanu.
Dumitru Solomon was born in Galați on December 14, 1932 and died in Bucharest on February 10, 2003. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Bucharest (1955).
He made his debut in the press with articles of literary criticism, and editorially in 1958 with the essay "The problem of the intellectual in the work of Camil Petrescu". His essay activity was concretized in the volumes "Theatre as Metaphor" (1976) and "Internal Dialogue" (1987).
He was editor of "Luceafărul" and "Gazeta Literară" magazines, and after 1990 director of "Teatrul Azi" and "Scena" magazines. His activity was rewarded by the cultural world with numerous awards: the Academy Award, the Writers' Union award three times, the Bucharest Writers' Association award three times, the Romanian Comedians Award twice and the UNITER Award for the play "Repeatable balcony scene".
Several of his plays enjoyed success on the Romanian and European theater stages: "Morgana Girl", "Scenes from the Life of a Bădăran", "Archimede's Secret Weapon", "Apa", "Superba, nevăzuta camilă", " Pinnacle", "Orient-Express", "The Notion of Happiness", "The Snows of Old", "Socrates, Plato, Diogenes the Dog", "The Repeatable Balcony Scene", "The Two Nightingales".
THE SNOWS OF ONCE UPON A TIME
by Dumitru Solomon
Artistic direction and stage version: Mircea Cornișteanu
Scenography: Puiu Antemir
Producer: Marius Pîrlea
Technical direction: Sorin Gruia
Lights: Marian Tudorache, Alina Mitrache
Sound: Dan Fenesan
Video: Florin Chirea/Orlando Edward
Blower: Anca Maria Ilinca
Performance duration: 1h 20 min
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Schedule: Monday – Friday: 11:00 – 19:00; Saturday – Sunday: 12:00 – 19:00
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The "Marin Sorescu" National Theater in Craiova is one of the most important theaters in the country, with a tradition of over 170 years and a prestigious international activity whose long and rich history culminated with the legendary performances of Silviu Purcărete, presented in the most important theater festivals around the world, but also with the immense international success of the Shakespeare Festival, which brings to Romania performances from five continents, every two years.
Now, with a contemporary vision, the theatre addresses present and future perspectives, addressing an increasingly broad spectrum of audiences in line with current challenges.
