Theatre Is the People Who Make It. The Romanian Theatre-work Experience by an Italian Director

Abstract

The present paper presents the journey of an Italian director in Romanian theatre, from the first encounter with Romanian great performances abroad, in  Festivals, to the work on stage with Romanian actors, and for a Romanian audience, in Cluj-Napoca. The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca offered the place of  this encounter of different energies, ways of living, making and approaching theatre, and the space for an artistic challenge: to work not only in the  experimental way the director was used to at the Laboratory in Pontedera, but to find the right path in the more strict system of a Repertory Theatre and for  a much larger audience in a shorter laps of time. This journey is not only about theatrical places but also and mainly about people met there, about  exchanges, work, challenges, wishes, artistic results in the past and the present and projections in the future.