King Edward III

by William Shakespeare
Translation: George Volceanov

CAST:

The English
KING EDWARD III - Ion Caramitru
QUEEN PHILIPPA, HIS WIFE - Simona Bondoc
EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALLES, THEIR SON - Daniel Badale
EARL OF SALISBURY - Mircea Anca
COUNTESS OF SALISBURY, HIS WIFE - Crina Muresan
EARL OF WARWICK, THE COUNTESS'S FATHER - Eusebiu Stefanescu
SIR WILLIAM MONTAGUE, SALISBURY'S NEPHEW - Mihai Muntenita
EARL OF DERBY - George Paul Avram
LORD AUDLEY - Constantin Dinulescu / Alexandru Georgescu
LORD PERCY - Mircea Nicola
JOHN COPLAND, AN ESQUIRE - Neculai Stangaciu
LODOWICK, KING EDWARD'S SECRETARY - Andrei Aradits / Axel Moustache
A HERALD - Adrian Borcea

The Allies of the English
ROBERT, COUNTE OF ARTOIS AND EARL OF RICHMOND - Marcelo Cobzariu
LORD MOUNFORD, DUKE OF BRITTANY - Emil Muresan

The French
KING JOHN II - Serban Ionescu
PRINCE CHARLES, DUKE OF NORMANDY, HIS SON - Dragos Stemate / Razvan Oprea
PRINCE PHILIP, HIS YOUNGEST SON - Razvan Hincu
DUKE OF LORRAINE - Liviu Lucaci
VILLIERS, A NORMAND LORD - Alexandru Bogdan
A CAPTAIN - Dan Cernat Radu
TWO HERALDS - Andrei Dobrin, Adrian Borcea
TWO TOWNSJOLK FROM CRESY - Adrian Draganescu, Andrei Dobrin
TWO FRENCHMEN - Marius Mihaila, Alexandru Bogdan
A WOMAN - Aristiţa Diamandi
TWO CHILDREN - Stefan Velichiu, Maria Velichiu
A MARINER - Dani Popescu
THE RICH TOWNSFOLK FROM CALAIS - Adrian Drăgănescu, Marius Mihăilă, Mihai Munteniţă, Ninel Surdu, Viorel Florea
THE POOR FROM CALAIS - Marius Mihăilă, Adrian Drăgănescu, Eduard Cîrlan, Ninel Surdu, Adrian Borcea

The Allies of the French
THE KING OF BOHEMIA - Ninel Surdu
A POLISH CAPTAIN - Stefan Opreanu

ThE Scots
kING DAVID BRUCE OF SCOTLAND - Mihai Verbitchi
SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS - Dani Popescu
A HERALD - Adrian Borcea

THE ENGLISH DRUMMERS - Andrei Stoleriu, Marius Mihaila, Andrei Dobrin, Alexandru Marculescu, Mircea Nicola
THE FRENCH DRUMMERS - Mihai Muntenita, Radu Cernat Dan, Alexandru Bogdan, Eduard Cirlan, Stefan Opreanu
ENGLISH CORN AND OBOE - Cristina Bot

Directed by: Alexandru Tocilescu
Director's assistant: Gabriel Iencek
Set design and lighting design: Dragoş Buhagiar
Original music and rhythms: Iosif Hertea
Stage mouvement and choreography: Pastorel Ionescu
Musical illustration: Gabriel Basarabescu
Multimedia: Daniel Gontz
Cartoons: Valentin Petuhov

Play duration: 3h 30' (with intermission)

The first Romanian stage version of this play attributed to Shakespeare is signed by Alexandru Tocilescu, one of the stage directors who “crossed” two historical periods remaining free of servitude. Bold and inventive, a friend of the artistic avant-gardes, for King Edward III Tocilescu reunited with Ion Caramitru, together with whom he produced a momentous Hamlet, the first Romanian performance to go on tour abroad after the 1989 Revolution. Caramitru takes most of the show on his shoulders, proving that his years of political involvement and preoccupation with the interests of Romanian theater people have not obscured his passion for the stage. The cast of this grandiose show, performed in the setting of one of the most acclaimed Romanian designers, Dragos Buhagiar, includes names of young actors, among which Crina Muresan, already a star of Romanian theater.

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