The Ruins of the City

A New Life

The theatre, a path… The theatre, a journey… And our luggage, jam-packed with every moment of so many performances.

7 September 1869. The first train departed from Filaret Station. The memory of the station, the memory of the street… It is no accident that our project begins with Bucharest’s first railway station, as an emblematic place of the performance of the street. The railway tracks are a leitmotif in the creation of a magical space with two performance halls that can be reconfigured into different types of theatrical space.

For decades, even centuries, they have been watching us… Brought together with melancholy care, caryatids, columns, fragments of pediments, even a portal that once marked the presence of a stage, the architectural elements of old Bucharest, all enjoy a new life in this space of memory.

Country/Region Romania

Team NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARTS (Bucharest, Romania): Curator – Stefan Caragiu and Iuliana Gherghescu: Chiajna Monastery – A Converted Monastery by Alina Petrovschi (Year I, Masters in Scenography), Casa Radio – The Radio House by Maria Alexandra Ivan (Year I, Masters in Scenography) and Out of an Empty Apse… by Miruna Croitoru, Cosmin Stancu, Lavinia Daduț and Nicoleta Ivan (Year II, Masters in Scenography); UNARTE (Bucharest Romania): Curator – Roxana Ionescu: The railway station Filaret Bucharest by Raluca Popa (year II, masters in Scenography); UNIVERSITY OF ARTS (Târgu Mures, Romania): Curator – Judit Dobre-Kothai: Ruins of the town for Misanthrope by Molière by Beatrix Czirjak