{"id":219,"date":"2024-08-25T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:52:41","slug":"descopera-mai-mult","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/descopera-mai-mult\/","title":{"rendered":"Further reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background-color has-border-color has-base-2-border-color has-white-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-05e46af89796724bf6cd864a31e55f1b has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-77d9e090 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:1px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide 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highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:84px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">\u201e<em>A magnificent production! <\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Bernard Faivre D\u2019Arcier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>director of the Festival of Avignon 1993-2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ebb4e058b1b1e926d441f1b99ca87f7f has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201ePurc\u0103rete\u2019s show has been one of greatest hits of the Festival, an original and powerful production.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Frank Dunlop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>director of the Edinburgh International Festival 1984-1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">\u201e<em><strong>Ubu Rex<\/strong> and <strong>Titus Andronicus<\/strong> are doubtlessly masterpieces. Both productions are truly brilliant, powerful and free. <\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Falcon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>director of the Th\u00e9atres des Ameriques Festival, 1985-2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2366b3b9d8d36c84381413449fa7f392 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\">\u201e<em>So ravishing that you\u2019re almost prepared to sell your soul to the devil to keep the succession of lush images coming, Silviu Purc\u0103rete\u2019s version of Goethe\u2019s <strong>Faust <\/strong>is such a seductive visual fantasia that you might not notice it has sold its own soul to spectacle. But what a mighty spectacle it is, with a series of eye-popping illusions and conjuring tricks that make you feel as if you\u2019ve fallen into a waking dream \u2013 or a nightmare. You leave the theatre hungover from having binged so greedily on the rich visuals, but almost entirely unmoved by the simple purity of unaccompanied voices and the sweet songs of the doomed Gretchen, whose love redeems Faust. In Purc\u0103rete\u2019s vision, hell is so much more exciting than heaven.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Lyn Gardner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201ePurc\u0103rete&#8217;s talent for creating images shines through from the very first seconds of the first part, <strong>Agamemnon<\/strong>, with the appearance of the messenger, suspended in the sky, then of the chorus of obese old men wearing suits and ties. The sumptuous grey lighting, the violence of the murder, a bloody Clytemnestra facing Agamemnon&#8217;s corpse thrust into a zinc bathtub, the poetry of a scene lit entirely by candlelight&#8230; For two hours and forty minutes, Purc\u0103rete displays an impressive mastery of stagecraft\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Ren\u00e9 Solis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Lib\u00e9ration<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-06e4f06d4ff6139b0cce66e13f5e7442 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\">\u201e<em>Silviu Purc\u0103rete is a director-poet. Double identity, communion of two roles, which interfere and give him his own status. On the stages of this world, his theatre is the expression of the presence of an artist, but also that of an interpreter: this is where his unique role comes from. It\u2019s a double role manifesting itself with various accents in the performances, one by one, one never to eliminate de other, different side; Purc\u0103rete is seduced by cohabitation, by the cohabitation between reading the texts and their poetic treatment on a theatre stage. Purc\u0103rete exerts a relative freedom, recognizable, but not predetermined, because he maintains a consensual relationship with the text, an affective rather than strictly interpretative one. This is why, in his case, the stage bears the trademark of the artist&#8217;s signature, but, at the same time, it does not absolutely exclude the impact of the written work. This relationship modifies with each of the performances he creates, but it does not disappear: the poet&#8217;s freedom and the director&#8217;s reading. Reunited!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">George Banu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Observator Cultural <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201eWhen asked, in various contexts, what he considers to be his most fulfilling show, Silviu Purc\u0103rete always answers: <strong>Phaedra<\/strong>! It is the Romanian show with the longest and most impressive international career, so far unequaled. <strong>Phaedra <\/strong>premiered in Vienna, on June 8, 1993, at the Wiener Festwochen, and on July 2, at the Craiova National Theater, the producer. The ensuing series of international tours spanned over almost a decade, alternating with presentations in Craiova and at festivals around the country,  accumulating a long list of superlatives.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Olti\u021ba C\u00eentec<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Teatrul Azi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d9343d2ddfdc45a3dda59e7dd3f159fd has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\">\u201e<em>Travesti is another theme that constantly runs through Purc\u0103rete&#8217;s works. It is an exploration in the depths of the masculine and the feminine, of the relationship between them, first of all a challenge for all actors cast to perform in travesti, taking the path of an analysis of the other sex, of noticing other types of movements, of gestures, other rhythms, other ways of looking, of wearing a suit, of using an accent. From <strong>Ubu Rex with scenes from Macbeth <\/strong>, where Madam Ubu was played by Valer Dellakeza, to the <strong>Danaides<\/strong>, where Coca Bloos portrays Danaos as a timeless decrepit, wrapped in oversized shawls, bare-chested with exposed breasts and a beard, to <strong>The Tempest<\/strong> where Sorin Leoveanu was cast as Miranda, to <strong>Faust <\/strong>where Ofelia Popii played Mephisto, to the female Choir of the elders in <strong>Phaedra<\/strong>, to the Limoges production of <strong>Don Juan<\/strong> in which all parts, except the protagonist, are played by actresses. In the way the director works with the actors, we sense the laboratory, the continuous discovery of a potential and the multiple forms in which it can be exposed.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Marina Constantinescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Rom\u00e2nia literar\u0103  <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201e&#8230; The director&#8217;s impeccable (and very well trained) taste for the visual arts is there, in all the details of the staging, starting with the very first scene: behind a curtain made of bedsheets (a possible reminder of the much-praised <strong>Decameron<\/strong>, directed more than a decade ago by Purc\u0103rete in R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea), a room full of the various wastes of human science. Old Faust and his students, a grey and almost faceless humanoid mass, seem to have frozen in an eternal Dead Class inside this room. Other images of intense plastic beauty (to which the costumes designed by Lia Man\u0163oc and St\u00fcrmer\u2019s lights fully contribute) follow right after the extremely powerful opening: the seduction of Gretchen\u2013 of the several Gretchens, in fact, because the Goethean female adolescent multiplies (I said this before) as seven little girls\u2013 or the appearance of the allegorical Four Grey Women &#8211; Scarcity, Duty, Care and Need, all played by young male actors.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Alice Georgescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Dilema<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-22812494dcc9beec71d091f34db4bdd5 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201eIn <strong>Troilus and Cresida<\/strong>, the closing performance of this exceptional edition of the Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, a production of the Katona Joszef Theater in Budapest, Silviu Purc\u0103rete embodies an apocalyptic vision of the modern world, criscrossed by the magnetic currents of self-destruction. The Trojan war unfolds in the former dining room \/ ballroom of a mansion, between two heaving drinking sessions. Helmuth St\u00fcrmer creates a space that is real and fabulous at the same time.<br>Recreating a state of conscious chaos, the staging becomes contagiously topical; like with Artaud, there is a call for the moral ferment, the extreme tension that the events impregnate the spirits with. Searching for nurture at the roots of archaic energies, crossing the history of civilizations in a lucid and playful back and forth, Purc\u0103rete composes a reality more real than reality. His way of reading analyzes the perennial goals and motivations of the human species, its degeneration, not without ironic flashes. Driven by primal instincts and reduced to satisfying physiological needs, the world depicted in <strong>Troilus and Cresida<\/strong> looks a bit like a promotional video in a campaign for male pride, as a trademark. Whether Greek, Elizabethan, Eastern or Western, its commandments to not include the redeeming prohibition. Thus, to lie, to kill, to covet your neighbor&#8217;s woman are the imperatives of a testosterone-based inflamated dignity. Just as in a game, aggressive stupidity, brute force and perversion of the mind destroy the last forms of spirit. A kind of final war that Purc\u0103rete directs with tragi-comic subtlety, inventing savory situations, stripping the narcissistic expression of the mask of heroism.<br>In Vasile \u0218irli&#8217;s conception, the dissonant harmonies embody signals of a realm beyond reality. Materialising into sounds, the invisible hyperbolizes the state of strangeness to quickly fold back into a music pleasant to the ears. The quality of the acting is close to perfection.<br>Purc\u0103rete&#8217;s proposal emerges from a pattern of inventive artistic thinking, sensitive to contemporary history, operating with solid cultural tools. The aesthetic dimension, the power of representation and the density of emotion place <strong>Troilus and Cresida<\/strong> in the among the most memorable performances. Artaud would have called it a communicative delirium because, even above its geometry, its purity and coherence, it features the effectiveness of a healing ritual.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Adriana Moca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>The Continuous Apocalypse. Level 200X &#8211; Troilus and Cresida, Cultura\/Liternet<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201eThanks to Silviu Purc\u0103rete&#8217;s staging in Craiova, I meditated about the author&#8217;s right to put a lot of himself into the performance he creates. Returning, in 2004, to the theatre that consecrated him in the \u201890s, he chooses <strong>As You Wish or The Night after the End of the Fair<\/strong>, a touching page of his personal diary, packed with elements from the intimate universe of its author: not only actors with whom he previously worked in his great stagings, but also a set featuring the remains of the bookshelves of the old theatre library. Craiova is an old love to Silviu Purc\u0103rete, and he converted this nostalgia into a theatrical medium.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Cristina Modreanu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Ziarul Financiar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1cff1020e0fc8c0a63d2fd4c440aa0ec has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201eUndoubtedly, a performance of <strong>Faust <\/strong>can only be a work of maturity, an attempt only names with great credibility can dare to make. Silviu Purc\u0103rete is one of them, along with famous director- colleagues such as Peter Stein or Giorgio Strehler, who have also recently devoted themselves to the theme. With a formidable team made up of Helmut St\u00fcrmer (scenography), Lia Man\u0163oc (costume designs), Vasile \u015eirli (music), Ilie Gheorghe (main protagonist) and the excellent ensemble of the National Theatre of Sibiu, Purc\u0103rete accomplished a grandiose staging, involving over a hundred performers and reviving the spaces of a former industrial plant in Sibiu.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Doina Papp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>A Romanian Language Faust in Goethe\u2019s Homeland, Liternet<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7ac3b26d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201eAs always, Silviu Purc\u0103rete\u2019s, humour is jubilant and painful. The fecund act of eating \u2013 in an uninterrupted celebration of the passage. <strong>Moliendo Caf\u00e9<\/strong>, yet another space of passage, and the title of a nonverbal impro show, produced by the German and Hungarian Theatres of Timi\u0219oara in 2014, reconstructing, in a series of improv episodes, the mythical, dual, abstract themes of the present day, made visible in a suite of variations: human beings in an erotic search for each other and for their ecstatic death. If Eros is the ecstatic experience of death, then coffee, black coffee, intensifies the tension of the search and the caf\u00e9 has become the passage space from Eros to Thanatos and back. <strong>Moliendo Caf\u00e9<\/strong> is probably one of the time structures of the purest tragic spirit in the Romanian arts of the drama over the past few decades. It has the purity not even attained in Faust, adapted after Goethe, produced by the National Theatre in Sibiu (2007). One can say without hesitation that <strong>Faust <\/strong>is Silviu Purc\u0103rete&#8217;s most grandiose show in recent decades and the most assiduously sought after by the most unthought of audiences across the country. The Sibiu production of <strong>Faust <\/strong>and the George Enescu International Festival are the only artistic phenomena in Romania to succeed in converting tourism into a fact of highest culture. <strong>Faust <\/strong>is very a beautiful and very technological staging, built on the enormous space of an industrial hall, with passionate dislocations of actions and audience.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Sebastian Vlad Popa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Lucid Bodies, an essay published in &#8220;Silviu Purc\u0103rete. Infinite Metamorphosis&#8221;, <\/strong><br><strong>by Mihaela Marin<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c321e65de5666d899a709663d67ed945 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b599e22f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.984rem, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.86), 1.5rem);line-height:1.2\"><em>\u201eUnder Silviu Purc\u0103rete&#8217;s gaze, everything is subtle, nothing is bold, both allusion and irony insinuate themselves with finesse. The comedic spirit is obviously present, perfectly integrated into this meditation on our condition: at present, we cannot imagine the human being deprived of humour. That fine irony and that smart, unostentatious, almost intimate jest, soaked in a bath of cultural allusions, double almost every scene: at the end, making use of the same musical instruments that had played such divine music, the chamber orchestra simulates a devilish piece of jazz.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e42cfab0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0\">Cristina Rusiecki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>The Rising Leaf from the Tree of Oblivion, Waiting for Godot &#8211; Teatrul Azi <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press highlights \u201eA magnificent production! \u201d Bernard Faivre D\u2019Arcier director of the Festival of Avignon 1993-2003 \u201ePurc\u0103rete\u2019s show has been one of greatest hits of the Festival, an original and powerful production.\u201d Frank Dunlop director of the Edinburgh International Festival 1984-1991 \u201eUbu Rex and Titus Andronicus are doubtlessly masterpieces. Both productions are truly brilliant, powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ro","en"],"languages":{"ro":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silviupurcarete.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}