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Within the Romanian National Theatre Festival on Wednesday, Nov 4th & on Thursday, Nov 5th at 10pm, LUNI Theater has scheduled “The Concrete”.

Its plot is simple: three young people in a futuristic Moscow go out for a night of clubbing involving repeated visits to the “Literary Archives”, virtual-reality spaces where they enter and consume common and famous classical writings. Their own language is a slang filled with imported Chinese terms while their bodies have been genetically and surgically altered.

Sorokin’s parable, dramatized by Alex Mihaescu, shows what we may become, without any moralizing intent – one can experience the most exciting “trips” by penetrating the flesh of fiction, plunging into the storyline like one does bungee-jumping.

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CAST:
KOLIA – Marius Damian
MASHA – Katia Pascariu
MASHENKA – Monica Sandulescu

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Directed by: Alexandru Mihaescu
Costume design: Carmen Secareanu


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Naturally following the director’s interest in community theater, Make Room! is the expression of the revolt of a generation against an incompetent state apparatus that is indifferent to ordinary people’s problems – in this case, the serious problem of losing one’s dwelling as a result of the enforcement of the Property Law. Using as an ordering axis a series of interviews with the cast, who are asked questions meant to reveal the actors as they are in their private lives, the show becomes an amazing mixture of reality and fiction. To have or not to have – that is the question asked by David Schwartz, the stage director, and Mihaela Michailov, the playwright, to both the actors and – indirectly – the audience, in a lively show filled with humor, but in fact extremely serious.

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Within the Romanian National Theatre Festival there are two scheduled performances of Make Room: on Saturday, Oct 31st at 10 pm and on Sunday, Nov 1st, 10pm at Teatrul LUNI Green Hours

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CAST:

MR NAE – Constantin Cojocaru
JENI – Florina Gleznea
AURORA – Rodica Mandache
ANDREI – Virgil Mardare
FLORENTINA – Alice Monica Marinescu
MRS VALERIA – Irina Mazanitis
MARIUS CRISTEA – Andrei Şerban

Text: Mihaela Michailov
Directed by: David Schwartz
Video: Cinty Ionescu
Set design: Adrian Cristea
Original music: Brum Conspiracy

Photos by Diana Dulgheru


Prezenţa secţiunii Debut începe în FNT 2009 la cel mai dinamic teatru independent din Bucureşti şi anume Teatrul LUNI de la Green Hours. Astfel sâmbătă, 31 octombrie şi duminică, 1 noiembrie, de la ora 22.00, veţi putea vedea Faceţi loc!, un text scris de Mihaela Michailov şi regizat de David Schwartz. Cristina Modreanu, selecţionerul unic FNT 2009 a văzut în acest spectacol “este expresia revoltei unei generaţii faţă de aparatul de stat incompetent şi indiferent la problemele oamenilor obişnuiţi.”

Miercuri, 4 noiembrie şi joi, 5 noiembrie, de la ora 22:00, tot la Teatrul LUNI de la Green Hours, se va juca spectacolul Concreţii, după Vladimir Sorokin, regia Alexandru Mihăescu, unde povestea e simplă: trei tineri ies pentru o noapte de clubbing, care implică vizite repetate “Arhive Literare”, la care se conectaza pentru a consuma opere literare clasice. Cum consumă şi ce rămâne după aceea, vă invităm să descoperiţi.

Ambele spectacole sunt producţii ale Teatrului LUNI de la Green Hours.

Bogdan Georgescu (dramaturg) şi din nou David Schwartz (regizor) vă aşteaptă vineri, 6 noiembrie, de la ora 18:00 şi ora 21:00, la Teatrul Naţional, Sala AtelierRomânia! Te pup., un spectacol despre care Cristina Modreanu scrie: „Scriitura lui Bogdan Georgescu este foarte proaspătă şi curajoasă, ambiţionând să creeze forma spectacolului încă de la nivelul textului. E vorba despre câţiva actori care, după ce se prezintă publicului, (…) creează legăturile dintre scene prin elaborarea unei coloane sonore pentru spectacol cu sunete provocate prin lovirea unor obiecte casnice.” Spectacolul este produs de Teatrul Naţional „Vasile Alecsandri” din Iaşi.

Vineri, 6 noiembrie şi sâmbătă, 7 noiembrie, de la ora 22:00, la Club La Scena, Teatrul Arca va prezenta Hipioţi şi Bolşevici, de Amiel Gladstone, în regia lui Felix Crainicu, un spectacol al cărui laitmotiv este „cum poţi să-l faci pe Dumnezeu să râdă? povesteşte-i planurile tale”.

Ultimul spectacol propus în acest an la secţiunea Debut este Pool (no water) de Mark Ravenhill, în regia lui Alexandru Mihăescu, produs de Teatrul German de Stat din Timişoara, care se va juca duminica, 8 noiembrie, de la ora 18:00 şi 20:30, pe scena Sălii Atelier a Teatrului Naţional. „Concepţia regizorului este ca spaţiul de joc să dubleze pereţii unei galerii de artă în care, uneori, personajele să devină chiar exponatele.” Precizează Cristina Modreanu, critic de teatru şi selecţioner unic FNT 2009.


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a shot by Nicu Ilfoveanu from the Gem Session @ subBufet
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DJ Vasile, Piti, Cata & Cinty.

for more photographs check subBufet official :)


100towatch100 to watch – Directory of Contemporary Romanian Artists” is launched today, October 20th in Berlin, at the Plan B Gallery. Besides the album you can check the online version of “100 to watch

Here’s how the authors of the project define “100 to watch“:
“The creative scene in Romania is one of the most vibrant and exciting in Europe. This directory was put together to illustrate what makes it so special. A listing of 100 of the most talented artists in Romania today, from conceptual art to contemporary dance, literature and theatre to music and fashion, it’s a snapshot of an entire generation – the Romanian New Wave. Every single artist between these pages is part of the reason why Romania is such an exciting place to be right now. It’s indicative of just how much talent there is in the Romanian New Wave.”

Well, I feel honored and excited to be part of this directory with Brum Conspiracy.


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grrreat video!


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sambata, 17 oct, sunt cu colegii cata & piti
precum si cu parintii rezidenti rolf & vasile
la subBufet pentru un gem.
ceea ce va dorim si dumneavoastra.
pentru mai multe detalii uitati-va, evident, subBufet.

si pe aceasta cale doresc sa rog autoritatile, parintii rezidentilor si organele abilitate sa aiba in vedere schimbarea numelui sindrofiei in gem subBufet.
multumesc anticipat.


last week Piti and I went at the unveiling of Matei Apostolescu’s toys collection.
wow, all those little details! and the colors! and the patience!
and did you see this one: it has lights in the head! you know… like the ones in lighters!
oh! some are phosphorescent, gotta switch off the light!!!

They were numerous like an army so I got nervous and forgot to take a group photo.
But here’s our toy. Hell yeah, i love it! Thank you, man :D

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toy & boy

toy by matei apostolescu
toy looking pleased & accommodated

look at the toy's face! :D
toy has a face and might be alive!

For more toys check on Matei Apostolescu!