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Tuesday, 02.11.2010
18:00 Bucharest National Opera
Wendsday, 03.11.2010
21:00 Bucharest National Opera
Dogs not Allowed
by Rodrigo Garcia
tranlated by Ioana Anghel
CAST:
Claudia Ieremia
Andrea Tokai
Ion Rizea
Alina Reus
Romeo Ion
and the child
David Popa
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia
Set and costume design: Rodrigo Garcia
Light design: Carlos Marquerie
Video Concept: Marius Matesan
Assistant director: Catalin Ursu
Assistant set designer: Dorothea Iordanescu
In an interview to Atent magazine of the National Theater in Timisoara, the stage director Rodrigo Garcia said: “It’s been twenty years since I’ve been working on a personal language,” quantifying the duration of a theatrical research with great results. One of the most powerful and original voices in European theater, Rodrigo Garcia set up La Carniceria (Butcher’s Shop) theater company in Madrid in 1989, ironically emphasizing that he had broken away from his father’s butcher’s business, taking up an entirely different career in life. La Carniceria company performed Garcia’s plays (he is a very appreciated playwright whose works have been translated into many languages) at all major world festivals, winning the critics’ praises and stirring up controversy among the audience. Their staged shows include: The Story of Ronald, the McDonald’s Clown (2002), Agamemnon (2003), Throw My Ashes on Mickey (2006), Very Rare (2007), Accidents (Killing to Eat, 2006), Versus (2008), Death and Rebirth of a Cowboy (2009) and many more. Rodrigo Garcia, whose declared sources of inspiration are Beckett, Céline, Thomas Bernhard, Bunuel, Goya, dreams of a theater into which “anybody can open the door forcefully, without hesitation”. His writings, on which every show is based, are extensions of reality with a powerful poetic dimension.
In April 2009, Rodrigo Garcia received the prestigious New Theatrical Realities prize, on its 11th edition, in Wroclaw, Poland, (the other winners were Pippo Delbono, Guy Cassiers, Arpad Schilling and François Tanguy). A year later he was invited by the National Theater in Timisoara to mount a production – his first in Romania.
