Friday, October 24
Event hosted in FNT
11.00 ARCUB, Great Hall
You don’t make spring with a woman. Yesterday’s archives for today’s theater (www.fem100.ro)
Free discussion about the archives of Romanian theater creators
Presentation of the Feminist Theater Archive FEM100
With: Gianina Carbunariu, Cristina Modreanu and Ionuț Sociu
Producer: Romanian Association for the Promotion of Performing Arts (ARPAS)
Duration: 1h
FREE ENTRY within the limit of available places
17.00 and 21.00 “IL Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest, “Ion Caramitru” Hall Reconstruction
Concept: Catinca Drăgănescu and Ciprian Făcăeru
Text and direction: Catinca Draganescu
Physical scenography, VR/AR & lighting design: Ciprian Făcăeru
Costumes and scenography consultant: Lia Dogaru
Software development VR/AR reconstruction: Augmented Space Agency (Dan Făcăeru and Sabin Şerban)
Original music composition and sound design: Cristian Vieriu (interior 8)
Lights: Alina Mitrache / Marian Tudorache
Sound: Emy Guran
Video: Florin Chirea
Producer: “Marin Sorescu” National Theater Craiova
Duration: 1h 30min (without break)
Show in Romanian with English translation
Show on the stage
BALANCE OUT
17.00 and 21.00 “IL Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest, Picture Hall
An angel arrives in Babylon by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Translation: Árpád Fáy
Dramatization: Réka Dálnoky
Directed by:
László Bocsárdi
Decor: József Bartha
Video design: András Rancz
Costumes: Izsák-Szőke
Choreography: Attila Bordás
Original music and Sound design: László Bakk-Dávid
Light design: Tamás Bányai
Producer:
Theater “Teatrul Tamási Áron”, Sfântu-Gheorghe
Duration: 2h 40min (with a break)
Show in Hungarian with translation into Romanian and English
Very strong light effects are used in the show!
BALANCE OUT
18.00
Excelsior Theatre, “Ion Lucian” Hall
Pride and Prejudice (sort of)
By Isobel McArthur, based on Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice
Translation: Adrian Nicolae
Direction and light design: Alexandru Mazgăreanu
The decor:
Andreea Sandulescu
Costumes: Alexandra Boerescu
Stage movement: Mariana Gavriciuc
Original Music and Musical Arrangement: Alexandru Suciu
Producer:
Excelsior Theater Bucharest
Duration: 2h 30min (with a break)
14+
Show in Romanian with English translation
BALANCE OUT
19.00 Odeon Theatre, Majestic Hall
NIJINSKI • Agony and Ecstasy
Concept, direction, choreography, light design: Russian Arcadia
Scenography: Yasmin Asan
Original music: Alexandru Suciu
Producer:
Odeon Theater Bucharest
Duration: 1h 05min (without break)
14+
Show in Romanian with English translation
BALANCE OUT
20.30 Bulandra Theatre, “Toma Caragiu” Hall
smooth
by Alexandra Felseghi
Directed by:
Adina Lazar
Scenography: Bianca and Sabina Veșteman
Sound design: Adrian Piciorea
Producer:
Theater “Andrei Mureșanu” Sfântu-Gheorghe
Duration: 2h 40min (without break)
16+
Show in Romanian with translation in English and Hungarian
BALANCE OUT
TVR Cultural at FNT
22.00 Gaitsele by Alexandru Kirițescu
Adaptation and direction: Nae Cosmescu
From the cast:
Dear Olteanu Matei, Margareta Pogonat, Leopoldina Bălănuță, Olga Tudorache
Production: Tyr (1993)
Duration: 2h 25min
General audience
Studio FNT by Cinemaraton
11.00 – 12.00
Catinca Drăgănescu, director of the Mask Theatre
Alexandra Felseghi, playwright
Moderator: Octavian Szalad
12.00 – 13.00
Radu Apostol, director
Ioana Alexandru, cultural manager French Institute
Moderator: Zomir Dimovici
Live on Cinemaraton, www.fnt.ro and https://www.facebook.com/fntfestivalulnationaldeteatru/?locale=ro_RO and https://www.youtube.com/@UniterRomania
The story of a dream. Grivița53
00.00 Grivița Theater53 (Calea Griviței, no. 53)
premier: Love from the prohod night by Nora Iuga
A performance with: Rodica Mandache
Producer: Teatrul Grivița53
Duration: 1h
Event hosted in FNT
The story of a dream. Grivița53
(the inauguration
the Theater building Grivița53. The first theater built together)
An immersive journey in the privacy of birth of the Grivița Theater53
Installation of authentic objects, photo-video diary fragments, unconfessed testimonies, unspoken thoughts and emotions sedimented over a decade
Exhibition space of: Maria Miu and Iuliana Vilsan
Producer:
Grivița Theater53
The installation can be visited between October 17-26, 2025, between 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
#involved. the Austrian micro-section in the FNT
October 17-26 | “IL Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest, Marble Foyer
literature studies
(Video Installation)
About what it means to be socially engaged through the exercise of writing and its democratic relevance
Video explanations by 12 important voices of contemporary Austrian literature:
Anna Baar, Bettina Balàka, Raphaela Edelbauer, Olga Flor, Valerie Fritsch, Susanne Gregor, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, Barbi Marković, Mieze Medusa, Karin Peschka, Robert Prosser, Ferdinand Schmalz
Manufacturers:
Austrian Cultural Forum, ORF, Austrian Literature Society
The installation can be visited between October 17-26, 2025
Event hosted in FNT
October 17-26 | National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest
Costume / Sculpture / Body. Theatrical objects of director Tadeusz Kantor
(exposition)
Curators: Justyna Droń, Bogdan Renczyński
Coordination: Justyna Droń, Sandra Demetrescu, Nicoleta Coman
Organizers: Cricoteka, National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest
The exhibition can be visited between 17-26 October 2025 (Wednesday – Sunday), between 11.00 and 18.30
TNR to FNT
October 17-26 | “IL Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest, Foyer of Sălii Media
Nonstop imaginarium
(audio drama audition space)
recent TNR productions, organized thematically, can be accessed with a QR code from a mobile phone in the protected ambience of a radio theater audition.
Producer: National Radio Theater
The audition space is open to the public between October 17-26, 2025, between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Educational NTF. workshops
October 20-24 | Secondary School, no. 162, Bucharest
Workshop for making objects that become stories in motion
Supported by: Ana Crăciun Lambru
October 20-24 | Secondary School, no. 96, Bucharest
Creative development workshop through neurographics
Supported by: Alina Herescu
October 20-24 | “Nicolae Tonitza” Fine Arts High School Bucharest
Choreography workshop
Supported by: Sergiu Dita
FNT On Air
Ana Blandiana – An initiatory trip to Moscow.
05.00
– Radio Romania Cultural
Radio script: Ion-Costin Manoliu
Artistic direction: Nicolae Mărgineanu
With the participation of the writer Ana Blandiana
In distribution: Maria Ploae, Oana Maria Mărgineanu, Alexandru Nedelcu, Radu Bânzaru, Mioara Ifrim, Alin Panc, Armand Calotă, Mircea Constantinescu, Cristina Constantinescu, Afrodita Androne, Tache Florescu, Rada Ixari, Vitalie Bantaș
Original Music: Andrei Miricescu
Editing direction: Florin Badic
Studio direction: Milica Creiniceanu
Music Direction: Patricia Prundea
Technical direction: Eng. Mirela Georgescu
Editor and project coordinator: Magda Duțu
Registration from 2024.
FNT On Air
22.00
– Radio Romania Cultural
Antigone
(Premiere)
of Sophocles
Translation:
George Fotino
In distribution: Marina Flueraşu, Ioana Calotă, Mircea Constantinescu, Ionuţ Achivoaie, Felicia Pinte, Mihai Constantin, Ion Haiduc, Sergiu Cioiu, Nicolae Călugarita, Alexandru Georgescu, Dan Astilean, Mugur Arvunescu, Dorin Andone, Orodel Olaru, Mihai Verbiţchi, Victor Vurtejanu, Vasile Toma and Ştefan Velniciuc
Percussion: Lucian Maxim
Editing direction: Florin Badic
Studio direction: Milica Creiniceanu and Janina Dicu
Original music and musical direction: Andrei Miricescu
Sound design: Mihnea Chelaru
Editor and producer: Mrs. Tsundrea
Radio adaptation and artistic direction: Gavriil Pinte
