Burghezul gentilom, TNB

Gen: Comedie, Teatrul National Bucuresti

Nota: 3.6/5

Actori: 4/5
Scenariu: 3/5
Regie: 4/5

Adaptare la plaiul mioritic dupa Moliere, din textul original nu se pastreaza nimic, doar linia generala a intrigii. O comedie usoara de caracter, o becalizare a personajului principal, piesa se adreseaza publicului larg de televiziune si mai putin unui public amator de teatru.

O comedie usoara de descretit fruntea, cu siguranta nu este o piesa care merita prea multa atentie.


Link: http://www.tnb.ro/?page=spectacol&idspec=118
Link alte cronici: http://regizorcautpiesa.ro/spectacole/Burghezul-gentilom-regia-Petrica-Ionescu-1642.html

Dumnezeul de a doua zi, Teatrul Act

Gen: Drama, Teatrul Act
Regia: Mimi Branescu

Nota: 2.3/5

Actori: 3/5
Scenariul: 1/5
Regia: 3/5

A doua piesa de Mimi Branescu ce nu mi-a spus absolut nimic, ba in plus mi-a parut rau ca am pierdut timpul cu ea. Cred ca propriile cuvinte ale lui Mimi Branescu descriu cel mai bine piesa: „Toate textele mele de teatru sunt incercari, mai mult sau mai putin reusite. Sunt exercitii destinate in primul rand actorilor. Nu contin mesaje profunde si nici nu-si propun să dezbata teme mari, universale. Din neputinta. Sunt inspirate din realitatea imediată si povestite sincer, cu onestitate.”


O cronica ceva mai pozitiva pentru aceeasi piesa (aici). Totusi din prezentare sunt de acord doar cu interpretarea buna a lui Vlad Zamfirescu, precum si cu prezenta "portretelor" ca si forma teatrala, in afara de aceasta, textul este aproape nul..


Link: http://www.teatrulact.ro/index.php?pag=despre&cat=arhivas&id=142

Pascal Quignard - Le sexe et l'effroi

Based on old Roman texts, the author depicts some Roman habits and myths - building around two main themes sexuality and fear.

- Epicur is the 3rd century's Freud:
a. a person that doesn't enjoy life, creates his own illness.
b. any person, in his own intimacy, has a restless heart, that drives the soul crazy with silly thoughts.

- we were born animals, thus regardless of the number of laws, the humanity cannot escape it's animal roots.

- Septimius: "the one who writes - sodomizes, while the reader is sodomized"

- 470 a.d - Sollius Sidonius Apollinaris: "There are no longer hierarchies between the noble people, hierarchies that allowed us in the past to know the ranks; thus from now on the only hint about how noble one person is, will be found in the amount of knowledge".

Suetoniu, talking about emperor August's death: talking to his friends the emperor asked if they think he played a good role in the comedy of life, and than he added 'if i played well, give a round of applause for the play'

Rabbit Hole, Teatrul Act

Gen: Drama, Teatrul Act

Nota: 4.6/5

Actori: 5/5
Scenariul: 5/5
Regia: 4/5

Piesa e bazata pe scenariul lui David Lindsay-Abaire, scenariul a fost si ecranizat - avand in rolul principal pe Nikole Kidman (imdb). Subiectul este greu, asa ca e mai bine sa fii pus in garda inainte de vizionare - un cuplu tanar, incearca sa isi revina dupa moartea accidentala a singurului lor copil de cativa anisori.

Remarcabila pentru mine a fost interpretarea actorilor, in special a Catalinei Moga (in rolul mamei) ce reuseste in acest rol greu, nu doar sa fie veridica, ci sa vibreze pe scena, sa sufere alaturi de sot si mama, cat si sa fie umana in relatia cu tanarul ce este autorul accidentului. Un rol foarte dificil, interpretat extrem de bine, dupa umila-mi parere.

Asemeni mi-au placut si ceilalti actori, cat si personajele lor - un tata frumos conturat, ce doreste re-creerea unei noi lumi/familii, o mama ce incearca sa isi readuca copii cu picioarele pe pamant, o sora zvapaiata - haios interpretata de Nicolata Lefter, cat si a adolescentului neindemanatic - frumos schitat de Cosmin Panaite.

O piesa ce merita vazuta macar pentru colectivul frumos sudat si interpretarea tare reusita. Subiectul e greu, asa ca mergeti pregatiti.. :)


Link: http://www.teatrulact.ro/index.php?pag=despre&cat=arhivas&id=233




The French Lieutenant's Woman - by John Fowles



Written as an exercise of Victorian literature, the book depicts the psychological evolution of an impossible love. The characters psyche is Victorian, and all their inner evolution follows the epoch's constraints.

Island, by Aldous Huxley



Written towards the end of his life, the book draws Huxley's view about the perfect utopic society. With only minor influences from Brave New World, Huxley succeeds in creating a society where Budhism, psichology and medicine, drugs and sexuality, and many more, all add their benefit to the individual experience, to the personal achievement.

Quotes worth thinking about:
- But Good Being is in the knowledge of who in fact one is in relation to all experiences. So be aware - aware in every context, at all times and whatever, creditable or discreditable, pleasant or unpleasant, you may be doing or suffering.

- faith is something very different from belief. Belied is the systematic taking of unanalyzed words much too seriously. Paul's words, Mohammed's words, Marx's .. - people take them too seriously, and what happens? What happens is the senseless ambivalence of history - sadism versus duty, sadism as duty; devotion counterbalanced by organized paranoia.. Faith, on the contrary, can never be taken too seriously. For Faith is the empirically justified confidence in our capacity to know who in fact we are, to forget the belief-intoxicated Manichee in Good Being.

- .. about the sexuality of children. What we're born with , what we experience all through infancy and childhood, is a sexuality that isn't concentrated on the genitals; it's a sexuality diffused throughout the whole organism. That's the paradise we inherit.

- does one learn how to forget?
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. How to be there with the dead and yet be here, on the spot, with the living.

- one has no right to inflict one's sadness on other people. And no right, of course, to pretend that one isn't sad. One just has to accept one's grief and one's absurd attempts to be a stoic.

- Perfect faith is defined as something that produces perfect peace of mind. But perfect peace of mind is something that practically nobody possesses. Therefore practically nobody possesses perfect faith. Therefore practically everybody is predestined to eternal punishment.

- Man is a machine, the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile.

- You think first of getting the biggest possible output in the shortest possible time. We think first of human beings and their satisfactions.

- Abstract materialism is as bad as abstract idealism; it makes immediate spiritual experience almost impossible.

- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

- "I" affirms a separate and abiding me-substance; "am" denies the fact that all existence is relationship and change. "I am". Two tiny word, but what an enormity of untruth.

- .. a talent for manipulating symbols tempts its possessors into habitual symbol manipulation, and habitual symbol manipulation is an obstacle in the way of concrete experiencing and the reception of gratuitous graces.

- The point is to get people to understand we're not at the mercy of our memory and our phantasies. If we're disturbed by what's going on inside our heads, we can do something about it.

- one thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one's merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.

Book Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature - website, laureates
Pulizer - website, awards

Man Booker Prize (UK, 1969, fiction) - website, awards
Orange Prize (UK, 1996, English female authors) - website
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (UK, 1987) - website

National Book Awards (USA) - website
American Booksellers Association (USA) - website

Goncourt (France) - website
Prix Medicis  (France) - website
Prix  Renaudot  (France) - website
Prix  Femina (France) - website

Premio Nacional de Literatura (Espagna)
Romulo Gallegos (Venezuela, 1967)