26.10.2005.
National Theater Sarajevo, 20:00
Sofoclo-Euripide
ELECTRA
Duration: 70 min.
ROMANIA
National Theater "Radu Stanca" Sibiu
str. Corneliu Coposu no. 2
550245 Sibiu
PERFORMANCE
Maniutius "Electra" is a performance that renders the everlasting tragic present, always ready to take the shape of days, but perpetually preserving its implacable essence of faith.
What makes "Electra" an event is the original vision of the director. The unexpected combination between the texts of the Greek tragedy founder of the great cultural European myths and the folk music played live by the group Iza from Maramures, brings to life an extraordinary mythology and creates a place of archaic resonance. The actors Mariana Presecan and Marian Ralea are the protagonists of this show which shines through the strong music and the tragic words.
The director restores old traditions, gestures and ceremonies, integrating them into a new space. He arranges them within the frame of a new show, this restoration work proving the authors preoccupation to carefully investigate and to go back to the roots, which give a permanent source of inspiration.
THEATRE
National Theatre Radu Stanca from Sibiu is a cultural public institution subsidized by the Local Council of Sibiu. Even though its official beginning dates from April 1st 1948, its history must be followed from 1788, when the Thick Tower of the towns defence wall became a place for theatrical performances, where both the Romanian and the German department share the stage nowadays.
Radu Stanca Theatre has been considered by several important theatre critics the best theatre from the country in the theatrical session 1999-2000 and in 2003. The performance of Othello was rewarded with the UNITER prize for Best Performance within the Theatrical Session, and Nora by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Radu Alexandru Nica was awarded the UNITER prize for Debut.
The quality of the productions at the National Theatre Radu Stanca, the co-organisation of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, the Sibiu Open Market for Performances, the Department of Cultural Management, ensure a coherent programme of cultural politics & creative bonds with over 80 countries worldwide and justify our hope for the successful organisation of the cultural year 2007, when Sibiu and Luxemburg will be the European Capitals of Culture.
DIRECTOR
Mihai Maniutiu is a very popular Romanian stage manager, who graduated from the National Institute of Theatre Art and Cinema in Bucharest, and was awarded many national and international prizes. His theatre is a combination of diverse styles, an "ars combinatorica", to put it in his own words.
Mihai Maniutius art contains a continuous dispute between the ephemeral and the atemporal, therefore between death and survival, creating a tension which has so far given birth to performances of thrilling emotion and rigurous rationality.
His theatre speaks of life and death, beyond the subject of each performance: it is a theatre profoundly preocupated with the human being, perseverently trying to imagine, to outline, to aproximate his saving. It is a theatre of desperate and tenacious searching; it is more a theater of wondering suggestion than of assertive communication, a theatre both of lucidity within lonely thoughts and of sharing emotions. Maniutius theatre is a theatre of restlessness and permanent change, which is not afraid to go forward every time, with every new performance, again and again, in search of its own definition.
He was awarded a series of important prizes along the years.
