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International Festival of Theatre
Sibiu, Romania
May 27 – 31, 2009

Costume Working Group Report
OISTAT Scenography Commission
Co-Heads:Laura Crow and Lise Klitten Vice Head:Kazue Hatano

 

Internation Theater Festival

Sibiu

Romanian Theatre Highlights

Metamorphoze by the Radu Stanca Theatre of Sibiu on a cold rainy night for an audience covered in clear plastic garbage bags.

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The set rises behind a very large pool of water. The Scenographer is Helmut Stürmer who works often with Silviu Purcarete as a collaborative artist.

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The company arrive from a proscenium to the left end of the water and a pier that protrudes from the proscenium.

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The actors set up the metal platforms as the words of Ovid are spoken..

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Light-hearted fun.  The flight of the angels.

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An angel with toilet paper wings enters the pool.

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The multi-headed dog Cerberus guards the gates of Hades.

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Strange plastic coated beings in Hades.

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Doctors try to resurrect a life.

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The deus ex machina is two strange  18th century male drag queens who arrive in a green light.

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There is a heavy dosage of fire breathing from the cast spitting out liquid parafin.

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The scenery is set on fire as a large projection talks about the human flesh eaters who don’t take advantage of earth’s bounty.

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The evening finishes with the audience marveling at lax fire codes and actors who will put up with cold weather and water that is not heated.

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The director of Metamorphoze, Silviu Purcarete, and the Costume Working Group members have a spontaneious discussion in the backstage tent.  The talk is about his collaboration with designer Helmut Shürmer and his return to Rumania after many years as artistic director for his own company in Lyons, France.

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Silviu Purcarete answers questions with Nic Ularu, the Programming Director for Romania by his side.

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The students of Dr. Faustus ponder their lessons on computers.

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The students look on in earnest to learn from their professor.

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Faust is delivered a bed full of virgins as the first proof from Mephistopheles that he is good for his word.

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Strange phantoms appear at the window of Faust’s study.

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Suddenly the back wall breaks away and two phantoms appear on a Rhinoceros to take Faust to a place of debauchery.

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The great Rhinoceros is taken to the back of the Theatre to his Altar.

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Women are fornicating with pigs.

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Lucifer drives his minions on.

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Apparitions hang from the ceiling.

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Mephistopheles played by reknowned actress Ofélia Popii pulls the intoxicated Faust further into this world.

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Faust rapes an old debauched woman.

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Faust is presented with
Helen of Troy

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Faust takes Helen of Troy to Lucifer’s orgy.

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Fires appear to burn out of control near electrical wires.

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There are serious pyrotechnics in the warehouse where the production takes place.

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In the end Mephistopheles returns to his/her human self and summons the dark angels of death.

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One last apparition appears on the Rhinocerous and toys with the scenic model, and the life of Faust

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Titus Andronicus
Here seen at home with his family in a strange new version of movement something akin to Bhutto, but with the addition of erratic movements that are not slow.

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Lavinia is attacked an loses her tongue.

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The Shogun’s son swears revenge with a strange mask on the side of his head.

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Lavinia tries to warn of an attack, but she has no tongue.  The henchmen have strange hands painted in white that are quite disturbing.

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