Subject: CALIN DAN IS DIRECTING AN EXPERIMENTAL THEATRICAL EVENT
CASTING INMATES FROM COLIBASI ROMANIAN PENITENTIARY
Odeon Theater
(Bucharest, Calea Victoriei 40-42)
Monday, May 28, at 7:00 p.m.,
hosts the performance
CA(R)NE – THIS IS OUR CITY
an experimental theatrical event by Călin Dan,
casting inmates from the Colibasi Penitentiary in Romania.
The creative team involves:
Călin Dan (text & stage direction)
Matze (sound design & DJ)
Cosmin Ardeleanu (set design & costumes)
Vali Chincisan (computer animation & VJ)
Suzana Dan (visual campaign & special props)
Victor Velculescu & Marius Iacob (video).
Project initiated and supported by:
Atelier Rijksbouwmeester, the Hague, realized in the frame of the
Prison Star Program,
implemented in the Colibasi Penitentiary with the support of the Dutch
Ministries of Foreign
Affairs and of Justice as well as of the Netherlands Royal Embassy in
Bucharest.
Project organized by:
Hand Milked Visions Foundation, Amsterdam;
the International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest;
Odeon Theater, Bucharest.
Project co-finaced by:
Swiss Cultural Programme Romania, Pro Helvetia / SDC;
the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the Ministry of
Culture & Cults, Romania.
The play brings forward the stray dogs coming from the demolition
sites that defaced Bucharest in the ‘70s & ‘80s, in order to make room
for the building of Ceausescu’s Palace. While waiting euthanasia, the
characters talk about the relation between masters and servants,
dictators and masses, about architecture, religion, etc. The text
blends continuously the existential debate and the mythological
prospective, with abrupt changes of location between a dogs’ prison
and the court of a fictional prince. The theatrical performance is
backed by an original sound composition performed live as well as by
videos and animations mixed in real time.
Entrance free.
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