Sibiu International Theatre Festival is an event that promotes excellence in the Performing Arts. The selection of the events that are part of the program is done by the recommendation of an artistic board, and one can take part in the Festival only by invitation. More
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The Sibiu International Theatre Festival represents, besides a celebration of arts, a perfect combination of theatre, dance, circus, movie, book, conferences, exhibitions, performance, music, and an opportunity to learn and perfect themselves for thousands of Romanian and international volunteers who have joined the event annually, forming, sometimes, lifelong friendships. More
From the moment it was published, in 1984, “L’Amant” (“The Lover”) sold thousands of copies. Marguerite Duras’ very intimate voice found its public, and the prestigious Prix Goncourt only confirms it. “L’Amant” is an enchanting novel, which focuses on the experience of an entire lifetime in a simple and touching form. With Marguerite Duras, life and writing haunt one another. And both are inhabited by her Indochinese youth. In “L’Amant”, it is as if the writer, having reached the end of the line, went through an old photo album. One can almost hear her voice comment on the images, letting a remote landscape rise to the surface of her. Blurry shapes come back to life, filling up the scenery. Among them, the lover, never named. A maiden girl, minor, daughter of poor colonists, and the rich heir of a Chinese promoter, were as likely to meet as Titus and Berenice, East and West. They did nevertheless. Within those pages, their two worlds blend together, and the rest remains on the threshold of the lovers’ room. Lust and passion are all the more intense as they are laden with impossibility. It cannot last. But what they experience before their separation endures the years like an unforgettable secret, destined to fuel the work of one of the greatest voices of the century.
Performance presented in French, with translation into Romanian and English.