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”MARIN SORESCU” NATIONAL THEATRE - CRAIOVA ”WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE” FOUNDATION

9th INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CRAIOVA, April 23rd – May 4th, 2014

DATE NATIONAL

THEATRE MAIN STAGE

NATIONAL THEATRE

STUDIO STAGE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

SQUARE

MIHAI VITEAZUL SQUARE

CRAIOVA OPERA HOUSE

COLIBRI THEATRE

OLTENIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA HOUSE

CETATE CULTURAL PORT

SEGARCEA CROWN DOMAIN

BUIA HALL

TEATR

U PLAY

CAFE

OTHER

VENUES

IN

OLTENIA

REGION

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12

WED April 23

18 30

MUCH ADO

ABOUT

NOTHING

Directed by:

Max Webster

Shakespeare's

Globe Theatre

London(UK)

THUR APRIL 24

1900

AS YOU LIKE

IT

Directed by:

Silviu Purcarete

Budapest

National Theatre

(Hungary)

1600

MUCH ADO

ABOUT

NOTHING

Directed by:

Max Webster

Shakespeare's

Globe Theatre

London(UK)

1100

YES, I WILL Directed by:

Ionut Popescu

Gabriela Bobes

”OKaua”

Company

(”A.I.Cuza” National High

School,

Bucharest)

FRI APRIL 25

2000

RICHARD III

Directed by:

Wang Xiaoying

National Theatre

of China

1700 RICHARD III

Directed by:

Fred Abrahamse

AM Production in

collaboration

with National

Arts Festival and

Market Theatre

(South Africa)

1100

A

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S

DREAM

Central

Academy of

Drama Beijing

SAT APRIL 26

1900MEASURE

FOR

MEASURE

Directed by:

Yuri Butusov

Vakhtangov

Theatre (Russia)

1100A MIDSUMMER

NIGHT’S

DREAM Directed by

Alina Rece

Craiova University

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DATE NATIONAL THEATRE MAIN STAGE

NATIONAL THEATRE

STUDIO STAGE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

SQUARE

MIHAI VITEAZUL SQUARE

CRAIOVA OPERA HOUSE

COLIBRI THEATRE

OLTENIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA HOUSE

CETATE CULTURAL PORT

SEGARCEA CROWN DOMAIN

BUIA HALL

TEATRU

PLAY

CAFE

OTHER

VENUES IN

OLTENIA

REGION

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 SUN

APRIL 27

2000

THE COMEDY OF

ERRORS

Directed by:

Edward Hall

Propeller Company

(UK)

1100

REHEARSE

HAMLET

UNATC

Bucharest

(Prof.

Adrian

Titieni

class)

1900

JULIUS

CAESAR Directed by:

Armen

Khandikyan

Yerevan

Dramatic

Theatre

(Tg-Jiu) MON

APRIL 28

2000 A MIDSUMMER

NIGHT’S DREAM

Directed by:

Edward Hall

Propeller Company

(UK)

1700 A

MIDSUMMER

NIGHT’S DREAM

Choreography

Izadora Weiss

Music

Goran

Bregovici

Baltic Opera

Gdansk

TUE APRIL

29

1900

JULIUS CAESAR Directed by:

Armen Khandikyan

Yerevan Dramatic

Theatre

(Armenia)

1100

SHAKESEPEARE

LABORATORY

Bolshoy Puppet

Theatre

St. Petersburg

(Russia)

WED APRIL 30

2100 MIRANDA Directed by:

Oskaras Korsunovas

- Vilnius City

Theatre

(Lithuania)

1100 Music in Shakespeare's

Pubs

MUSICIANS OF THE

GLOBE Concert

(UK)

2300 SHYLOCK

One-man

performan

ce Piotr

Kondrat

(Poland)

3

DATE NATIONAL THEATRE

MAIN STAGE

NATIONAL THEATRE

STUDIO STAGE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

SQUARE

MIHAI VITEAZUL SQUARE

CRAIOVA OPERA HOUSE

COLIBRI THEATRE

OLTENIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA HOUSE

CETATE CULTURAL PORT

SEGARCEA CROWN DOMAIN

BUIA HALL

TEATRU

PLAY

CAFE

OTHER

VENUES IN

OLTENIA

REGION

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 THUR MAY 1

1800 OTHELLO

Opera by

Giuseppe Verdi

Directed by:

Rares Zaharia

Craiova

Romanian

Opera

2100

HAMLET

Directed by

Laszlo Bocsardi

Hungarian

Theatre

Sf-Gheorghe

FRI MAY 2

2100

APOCALYPSE

AFTER

SHAKESPEARE

Directed by:

Janusz

Wisniewski

Craiova National

Theatre

1800 ROMEO AND

JULIET dramatic

symphony by

Hector Berlioz

Oltenia State

Philharmonic

Orchestra

Craiova

1900

THE

COMEDY OF

ERRORS

Directed by:

Edward Hall

Propeller

Company

(UK)

(Caracal

Theatre)

SAT

MAY 3 2000

TO MEET

PROSPERO

Directed by:

Iaroslaw

Fedoryshyn

Voskresinni

a Academic

Theatre in

Lviv

(Ukraine)

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DATE NATIONAL THEATRE

MAIN STAGE

NATIONAL THEATRE

STUDIO STAGE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

SQUARE

MIHAI VITEAZUL SQUARE

CRAIOVA OPERA HOUSE

COLIBRI THEATRE

OLTENIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA HOUSE

CETATE CULTURAL PORT

SEGARCEA CROWN DOMAIN

BUIA HALL

TEATRU

PLAY

CAFE

OTHER

VENUES IN

OLTENIA

REGION

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 SUN

MAY 4 1500-2000

’TIS PITY SHE’S

A WHORE

by John Ford

Directed by:

Declan Donnellan

Check by Jowl

London (UK)

-presented within

”Shakespeare’s

Contemporaries”

cycle

2230 TO MEET

PROSPERO

Directed by:

Iaroslaw

Fedoryshyn

Voskresinnia

Academic

Theatre in

Lviv

(Ukraine)

1100 I AM SHAKESPEARE

Directed by Gavril

Cadariu

Colibri Theatre

Craiova

1,2,3 May 2014, 1030 hrs, Dolj County Hall: SEMINAR ON SHAKESPEARE Organized in collaboration with the International Association of Theatre Critics 1,2,3 May 2014, 1030 hrs, Dolj Prefecture Hall: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHAKESPEARE Organized in collaboration with the European Shakespeare Research Association 28 April 2014, 2230 hrs, main stage - ”Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Craiova: AWARDING CEREMONY – INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE PRIZE to Professor STANLEY WELLS, C B E 24 April – 3 May 2014, 930 hrs, BUIA HALL, ”Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Studio stage, and Library room: Student Theatre Workshops of CRITICISM, ACTING, DIRECTION AND DESIGN 3 May 2014, 1030 hrs, ”Marin Sorescu” National Theatre Library room: Meeting of the EUROPEAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALS NETWORK Photographic, painting and philatelic exhibitions Book and DVD exhibitions and launches