program National Theater Festival 2025 (FNT35)which will take place in the period October 17-26includes, in addition to the 40 selected scenic productions, an impressive number of radio and TV shows. The public will thus have the opportunity to connect to this major cultural event right at home: in front of the TV or radio waves.
The Romanian Television Society, co-organizer of FNT35, set out to bring to the foreground, on Cultural TVR, masters of the scene in shows in the “Golden Archive”, thus assuming “the role of custodian of artistic memory”. He will give the public a journey in the history of the Romanian Television Theater, making “a reverence to the great creators who defined excellence on stage and on the screen”. At the selection of the titles, the “legendary productions that continue to excite and provoke” – from important authors to phenomenal artists.
For seven days, the evening (October 20-26) at 10:00 pm, in this order, in the section “TVR Cultural La FNT”, the shows “Tonight are improvised” by Luigi Pirandello, “Avarul” de Molière, “Ferarii” by Miloš Nikolić, “Money from Heaven” by Ray Cooney “,” Kirițescu, “Cumetrele” by Michel Tremblay and “Little Hell” by Mircea Ștefănescu.
Large names of actors gave birth to the characters from these TV mounts, among them Silvia Dumitrescu Timică, Leopoldina Bălănuță, Olga Tudorache, Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Draga Olteanu Matei, Mitică Popescu, Ștefan Radof, Margareta Pogonat, Horage Mălăele, Mariana Bloos, Dorina Bloos George Mihăiță, Constantin Cotimanis, Maia Morgenstern, Valentin Teodosiu.
The traditional average partner of FNT35 – Radio Romania – presents, during the entire period of the festival, a suite of events. We mention, first, the section appreciated at the previous editions FNT on Air, during which over 30 shows will be listened to by the National Radio Theater, broadcast on Radio Romania Cultural and Radio Romania current. There are representative contemporary productions, in accordance with the evolution of the Drama radio genus and with the modern tendencies of the composition of the sound space. Then there will be four “in situ” events, considered significant for the stage in which the National Radio Theater is located, “for the modern spirit and, at the same time, for the public approach, by the theme addressed and by the refinement and precision acquired in the exploration of the sound space”.
Also, during the festival will be active, on the website www.eteatru.ro, the collection “FNT 2025-the online section”. In the ten days of the festival, a space for audio productions drama will work in the foyer of the Media National Theater. Ten puffs, which the public is invited to sit, creates the protected environment of a radio theater audition. The audio shows in the playlist of the National Radio Theater can be accessed with a QR scanned code with each listener. The playlist includes recent productions of the National Radio Theater, thematically organized: real worlds, imaginary worlds and phonograms. This program is addressed to the spectators and guests of the festival, who have to spend a time between two shows or other events in the FNT35 program.
There will also be a premiere audition in the festival. On October 18, from 12:30, at the Bucharest National Theater – Tapiseriei Foyer, the show “Passions after Job” will be heard by Val Butnaru, directed by Petru Hadârcă, production of the National Radio Theater in collaboration with the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu” in Chisinau, within the dramaturi dramaturi project.
The National Radio Theater also proposes the round table “Dramaturgy for sound” (Arcub, October 19, 4:00 pm). Its purpose is to discuss the specificity of the audio dramaturgy: how we think a story in the sound, which are the levels of sound expression, how we can supplement the absence of the image, etc. We also mention the premiere audition with selections from the radio shows “Oedip King”, “Oedipus La Colonos” and “Antigone” of Sophocles, directed by Gavriil Pinte (October 22, from 12:00, at the UNITER headquarters). The three radio productions are an eloquent example of how they can be played today, by current means, the old texts of humanity.
Details about the events in FNT35 are available on www.fnt.ro, as well as on the official Facebook and Instagram accounts of the National Theater Festival.
The 35th edition of the National Theater Festival, produced by UNITER-the Theater Union in Romania, takes place in Bucharest between 17 and 26 October 2025. The curatorial team of the National Theater Festival is made up of Raluca Cîrciumaru (theater critic), Alina Epîngeac (theater critic) and Ionuț Sociu (and Ionuț Sociu (and Ionuț Socia.
FNT is a strategic cultural project funded by the Ministry of Culture. Co-producer: Bucharest City Hall through Arcub-Cultural Center of Bucharest. Partners: Romanian Cultural Institute, “Il Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest, ITI – Romanian Center of the International Theater Institute. Co-organizer: Radio Romania.
