Independent theatre festival UNDERCLOUD returns with international performances

For their seventh edition, UNDERCLOUD has managed to invite for the first time international independent theatre performances from UK, France and Hungary, having 32 theatre productions in the program. The event will take place between September 1-11, at the National Peasant Museum. Besides the international chapter, the festival has also a competition component.

The festival will open with Absolut performance, in the interpretation of the Romanian actor Marcel Iures, a show directed by Alexandru Dabija.

Conferences, concerts, performances will also happen during UNDERCLOUD festival, where Romanian actors such as Oana Pellea, Marcel Iures, Anca Sigartau, Marius Manole, Medeea Marinescu, Marian Ralea, Lia Bugnar, Andi Vasluianu, Magda Catone, Vlad Zamfirescu, Claudiu Bleonț or Maia Morgenstern can be seen performing on stage.

The international chapter

Blind Hamlet by Nassim Soleimanpour, director Ramin Gray, will be performed by British Actors Touring Company, on Saturday, September 6, from 21.00. In Blind Hamlet, Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour confronts the slow loss of his sight and the fact that he’s never read Hamlet. But with tragedy looming, he chooses instead to play with the truth and fiction, chance and fate.A surprise-laden meditation on what it means to act and interact in a shrinking world, Blind Hamlet is theatre about choices in which the audience chooses, is described the performance on their official website.

A l’ombre de Coré is a French dance show presented by Bakhus, with choreography signed by Mickaël Six, which will be presented Sunday, September 7, from 21.00. Dancers Mickaël Six and Sami Loviat-Tapie will stage a game of lights and shadows, something between reality and virtual life, which will lead to confusion, as the official program announces.

Waiting for Godot is the production that Hungarian Company FORTE will interpret the theatre performance by Samuel Beckett. The event will take place on Monday, September 8, from 21.00. Do expect to discover the special relationship that Beckett’s world has with death, silence and music through the interpretation of the Hungarian theatre company.

The full program of the event is available here, and tickets can be bought from www.bilete.ro for RON 35.