GERMAN MICRO-SEASON 2024

The "Radu Stanca" National Theatre in Sibiu is organizing the German Section's Micro-season between March 14-17, an event that has already become a tradition. This year we will present new productions, condensed into a single weekend, that will illustrate how the German Section approaches a wide variety of styles and thematic concerns. The event aims to bring together important actors from the cultural field to identify future projects and programs for both TNRS and the German Section and the Sibiu International Theatre Festival.

All performances are presented in German, with Romanian translation.

 

GERMAN MICRO-SEASON PROGRAM

 

March 14, 7 p.m.

WOYZECK

By: Georg Büchner

Directed by Hunor Horváth

Choreography: Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen

Grand Hall of TNRS

B-dul Corneliu Coposu, no. 2

The performance is a questioning of the conditions in which violence is born. Wozyeck is an illegitimate father, a humiliated subordinate, the subject of a medical experiment, a victim, a perpetrator, a good person and Maria’s killer. Viewers are invited to witness the human tragedy of a society heading towards self-destruction, and the means to find salvation through a total change of mentality.

 

March 12, 7 p.m.

DIE MEINEN / MY FOLKS

After Maxim Gorki

Adaptation: Dumitru Acriș

Grand Hall of TNRS

B-dul Corneliu Coposu, no. 2

A family is on the verge of breaking up. The parents cannot understand their children's need for freedom and the children cannot understand the rigidity of the parents who want to give them responsibility. Traditional ideas collide with the development of society, and everyone dreams of an increasingly uncertain future. Who is right? Who will be saved? What does a family mean when the truth one believes in is no longer the same as the truth the other believes in?

Dumitru Acriș's production puts the tensions between the generations in a cruel light, against the backdrop of a changing world driven by the pleasures of an idealised life. The German Section's production invites us to an immersive experience that questions the limits of tolerance, interpersonal relationships, and the sincerity of feelings in an increasingly unstable social context.

 

March 16, 5 p.m.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

By: William Shakespeare

Directed by: Florian von Hoermann

Grand Hall of TNRS

B-dul Corneliu Coposu, no. 2

The royal wedding of the couple from Athens enlivens the forest and invites it to the celebration. However, all these amazing things are not necessarily what they seem to be. Because the forest is shrinking more and more, and natural disasters threaten to plunge everything into chaos. Who can still save this dream from turning into a nightmare? 

Florian von Hoermann reconsiders with humour and acumen the stakes of one of the most frequently played comedies of all time, in order to shed light on the human condition in the context of an impending ecological catastrophe. Beyond the celebration of the stylistic beauty of the Shakespearean play, the performance of the German section is an invitation to reflection and to the collective assumption of a change that could save our future.

 

March 17, 3 p.m.

DER RATTENFÄNGER VON HAMELN / THE LEGEND OF HAMELIN, MAYBE THE STORY OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN SAXONS

Directed by: Andrei and Andreea Grosu

Studio Hall

Str. Emil Cioran, no. 1A

The street show "The Legend of Hamelin, maybe The Story of the Transylvanian Saxons" brings to the audience a story told through many voices over the ages. It is supposed that the first Saxons came to Transylvania from Hamelin. Their journey has been imagined by all authors fascinated by fairy tales and has been transformed into one of the most powerful stories about man's vulnerability to the truth. We invite you to discover the extraordinary adventure of people who decide to fight their own fear until they forget about justice, truth and even their own humanity. In this absurd struggle they lose everything. Even what seems to be unlosable. In the end, only one idea survives: man must be just before man, through truth.

 

March 17, 7 p.m.

DER GESAMTE MOLIÈRE (NAHEZU) / (ALMOST) ALL MOLIÈRE'S WORKS

Text: Vincent Caire

Directed by: Daniel Plier

Studio Hall

Str. Emil Cioran, no. 1A

Three actors want to play Molière, but don't know what to choose; "The Imaginary Invalid" or rather "Tartuffe" or maybe a farce, "The Miser" is also wonderful, or "Don Juan"? Hermine, Boniface and Jean-Baptiste solve the problem in an original way and simply play everything in a play which contains at least one line from all 33 of Molière's plays and at the same time tells a single continuous story: an anthology is thus created, a mosaic of the playwright's best scenes; the authoritarian father wants to prevent the lovers' wedding in favour of the schemer, but the clever maid thwarts the plan; a new play, performed in the fast pace of comedy.