The Regina Maria Theatre is pleased to announceÞthe premiere of the show "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" by Martin McDonagh, translated by Bogdan Budeș, directed by Ovidiu Caița, which will take place on Saturday, March 11, at 7:00 PM, at the Great Hall.

The play was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon in 2001 and is among the most successful texts written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, one of the most acclaimed contemporary European playwrights.

The Regina Maria Theater is pleased to announce the premiere of the show "Attractive Offer", by Anton Fink, translated and directed by Elvira Rîmbu, which will take place on Sunday, February 5 and Monday, February 6, from 7:00 PM, at the Transilvania Hall.

Oradea International Theatre Festival is a large-scale cultural event, which aims to provide a space dedicated to theatrical arts, through which to stimulate cultural consumption, to support and promote local dramatic creations, Romanian and foreign theatrical productions, as well as to create opportunities for Romanian and foreign artists to share experiences of good practices, innovative ideas and to initiate the most diversified national and international partnerships.

This concept was launched in 2013 by the Regina Maria Theatre in partnership with the Oradea International Theatre Festival Cultural Foundation and brings together under its umbrella Short Theatre Festival (FTS), which is competitive in nature, Great Guest Shows Section and Independent Shows – Fringe.

The Short Play Festival is one of the most important sections of the Oradea International Theatre Festival and continues a tradition started at the Oradea Theatre in 1976. FTS has now reached its 26th edition, being the only festival dedicated to the one-act play in Romania.

The famous musical "The Fiddler on the Roof" returns to the stage of the Regina Maria Theater at the request of the audience. An emblematic show of recent years for the Romanian theater in Oradea, the musical premiered on September 25, 2011 and has always been performed to full houses since then. The audience's interest in the Oradea production quickly expanded and it soon became a cultural tourist attraction for theater lovers from all over the country.

On December 19, the Regina Maria Theater and the Szigligeti Theater, in partnership with the National Archives, opened in the two pockets of the Loji Foyer, the exhibition "Musical and theatrical memories. Archive treasures from the cultural heritage of Oradea".

The exhibition contains an important selection of documents, posters, scores, fragments of old texts, some dating back even before the construction of the theater, which capture aspects of Oradea's theatrical life. The opening of the exhibition was attended by representatives of both Romanian and Hungarian theater, as well as the Bihor County Service of the National Archives, who discussed the importance of the archive, which acts as a form of physical and fixed memory, about Oradea's theatrical life at the beginning of its journey and the need to research old documents.

The Regina Maria Theater announces the premiere of the show COLIVIA NEBUNER, by Jean Poiret, directed by Daniel Vulcu, which will take place on Friday, December 16, at 7:00 PM at the Great Hall.

            Jean Poiret, by his original name Jean-Gustave Poiré (August 17, 1926, Paris – March 14, 1992, Paris), is a big name in French cinema and theater. He was a theater and film actor, author of numerous plays and scripts that were transformed into successful films. He worked in collaboration with great directors such as François Truffaut (Le Dernier Métro) and Claude Chabrol (Inspecteur Lavardine), leaving behind many memorable roles. Regarding his work in theater, Jean Poiret remains known as an important representative of boulevard theater. He wrote and performed several successful plays, the most famous of which are: The cage of fools, Happy holidays! and Duck with oranges.

            The cage of fools (The cage of fools) is the text that established him as an author, through which he returns to the source of his comic verve: cabaret humor. The original production of the play took place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on February 1, 1973, with Jean Poiret himself in the cast, who played one of the main roles. The comedy was enthusiastically received by critics, which had over 2,000 performances over time, inspired several films and was adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

            Georges, the manager of a flamboyant drag club, and Jeannot, the club's star performer, have been happily married for 15 years in Saint-Tropez. When their son decides to get married, the gay couple is faced with an unexpected challenge: will the fiancée's ultra-conservative parents accept their orientation, or should they lie to them?

The Regina Maria Theater announces the premiere of the show ULTIMIII, text by Mimi Brănescu, directed by Denisa Irina Vlad, which will take place on December 3 and 4, from 7 p.m., at the Transilvania Hall.

The play "The Last" is full of Mimi Brănescu's specific irony. Built with humor and drama alike, it leaves the viewer the freedom to position themselves as they wish in relation to what is happening on stage, and Denisa Irina Vlad's directorial vision maintains the balance of this duality, without tipping the scales too much to one side or the other. The show captures a world that is funny at first glance, with simple characters, caught in the seemingly stupid dramas of their limited universe, but who reveal downright tragic realities along the way. The situation of the four characters evokes laughter, but as the story reveals the other layers of their family life, the laughter will be doubled by regret, compassion and even revolt towards their stasis in their own helplessness.

The first edition of the "Portret de autor" Festival, organized by the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the Regina Maria Theater, in partnership with the Bihor County Council, has come to an end, after eight days in which spectators and theater people were able to enjoy beautiful performances and artistic encounters.

During this event, the Transilvania Hall was inaugurated, in the space of the old Transilvania Cinema, a new studio-type theater, which officially opened with the premiere of the show "The Son". The event was attended by theater critics, casting directors, and Oradea officials, such as Mayor Florin Birta and Vice President of the County Council Călin Gal.

"The idea of organizing this festival emerged with the "Son" project, proposed to the Regina Maria Theater by director Bobi Pricop, but also from the impossibility of organizing the Oradea International Theater Festival, a large-scale event with a tradition in the Romanian theatrical landscape.

"As the text "The Son" is part of a trilogy signed by Zeller and knowing that the other two plays, "Mother" and "Father", were staged in Romania, we considered it an opportunity that we should take advantage of to recreate a little of the atmosphere of the Oradea theater festival, to highlight an important project: the premiere of the show "The Son" and to initiate a new theatrical event, which we hope will grow even more in the years to come under the dome of the Oradea International Theater Festival", says Daniel Vulcu, manager of the Regina Maria Theater, about the new Oradea theater festival.

Between October 9-16, the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre invites Oradea spectators to the first edition of the AUTHOR'S PORTRAIT Festival, which will bring to the stage performances from the country, as well as productions by the Iosif Vulcan Troupe.

The event includes two sections: AUTHOR PORTRAIT and IOSIF VULCAN GROUP PORTRAIT.

AUTHOR PORTRAIT of this first edition of the festival is dedicated to Florian Zeller, French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, theater and film director, "the most fascinating playwright of our time" according to Times magazine.

This section will include three performances staged after texts written by Florian Zeller. The first invited performance is father, directed by Radu Iacoban of the "Ioan Slavici" Classical Theatre in Arad, a moving story of a man suffering from dementia. The psychological drama was screened last year under the directorial guidance of the author himself and was an impressive success: 63 nominations and 25 awards, including two Academy Awards for the lead role (Anthony Hopkins) and the supporting role (Olivia Colman). The film won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, out of a total of six nominations.

The premiere of the Iosif Vulcan Troupe is coming up, sonny, a text staged in its national premiere by director Bobi Pricop, which addresses the subject of depression, focusing on Nicholas, a young man whose growing struggle with mental health begins to devastate the lives of his parents, who fail to understand what is happening and try their best to help him.

The show "Vinegar Tom", by Caryl Churchill, directed by Dragoș Alexandru Mușoiu, is part of the selection of the 32nd edition of the Bucharest National Theater Festival, which will take place between November 5-13, 2022. The joy is even greater, as it is the second consecutive year in which shows from the repertoire of the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the Regina Maria Theater are found in the festival selection, this year being "Three Tall Women" and "Legacy of Luck".

The curatorial team of FNT 2022, consisting of Mihaela Michailov, Oana Cristea Grigorescu and Călin Ciobotari, selected for this edition performances from across the country, proposed by state and independent theaters, to which international performances were added, guided by the festival concept, namely: Fragile Borders. Fluid Histories.

The Cultural Foundation "Oradea International Theatre Festival", in partnership with the Regina Maria Theatre, is running the "(a)LIVE" project. The project obtained funding within the 2nd funding session granted by the National Cultural Fund Administration, for the Performing Arts-Theatre area.

"The main theme of the project is The digital generation under the impact of terror and illustrates the progressive emotional vulnerability of adolescents and young adults, exposed to the fear of death in a continuous form, starting from the pandemic threat and continuing with that of the war in Ukraine", explains Andreea Costea, the project manager.

On the occasion of International Charity Day, marked every year on September 5, two free performances for children and adolescents with disabilities will take place at the Great Hall of the Regina Maria Theater.

Each troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre will perform a show at the Great Hall, with the aim of supporting the social integration of children and young people with disabilities from Oradea and Bihor County. From 11:00, the show "Beauty and the Beast" will take place, in which you will be able to see the puppeteers of the Arcadia Troupe, and from 18:00, the show "French Teacher" will take place, performed by the actors of the Iosif Vulcan Troupe.

With the start of the summer season with shows played at the Great Hall, Arcadia Hall and the Oradea Citadel, the Regina Maria Theater launches the #TRMtreats campaign, which comes with numerous prizes and surprises inspired by the shows for spectators attending the performances scheduled in August and September.

With tickets purchased for any of the performances, spectators will be able to enter the contests announced on the Regina Maria Theatre's Facebook page. The first contest has already taken place, and after the end of the ART OF ADULTERY show, the winner of the "Romantic Dinner at Meridian Zero" contest was given a 200 lei voucher for a romantic dinner at the Meridian Zero Restaurant.

Also, throughout the summer season, with tickets purchased for any of the shows in the Oradea Citadel, spectators will have a 10% discount for any consumption at the Meridian Zero Restaurant.

Spectators who will have tickets to THE ACCUSATIVE GENDER (August 27, 8 p.m. – Oradea Citadel) will be able to win one of the 5 #OradeaCuDrag packages offered by Visit Oradea, with the encouragement to accept the challenge "Be a tourist in your own city". Also, 5 packages are reserved for spectators who will register for the "A visit to the museum" contest with tickets purchased for the VINEGAR TOM show (September 7, 7 p.m. – Sala Mare).

At the performances of IUBEȘTI? PLATEȘTI! (August 28 and September 9, 8 pm – Cetatea Oradea), the winners of the contests launched on the Regina Maria Theatre's Facebook page – "True love and books" - will each receive a package of books about communication and relationships offered by the Humanitas Oradea Bookstore. Also, people who purchase a ticket to one of the theatre's performances and present it in the Humanitas Bookstore within 7 days of purchase, have a 20% discount on any title in the bookstore (except for promotions in force on that day/month). In addition to the book package, the winners of the contests will also benefit from a free financial education session offered by an authorized financial consultant.

RMN, the newest film by director Cristian Mungiu, for the first time, in the presence of the team in Oradea

MRI, The newest film by director Cristian Mungiu will be seen in a special screening at Regina Maria Theater in Oradea, Friday, June 10, starting at 19.00. Director Cristian Mungiu and actor Kovács Levente Jr. will be present at the event, and at the end of the screening they will answer questions from the audience.

MRI tells a story about the profound springs of human behavior in the face of realities that surprise us, about the relationship with others and about the way we all relate today to an unsettling future. Director Cristian Mungiu describes the film as "a story about the relationship between the old times – perceived as more trustworthy because they had become familiar to us – and the current times, felt as chaotic. It is also a story about the self-deception generated by a set of European values that remain more of a desideratum than an accomplishment. It is a story about intolerance and discrimination, about prejudice, stereotypes, authority and freedom, a story about cowardice and courage, about the individual and the masses, about personal destiny versus the collective. It is also a story about survival, about poverty, about fear and an unsettling future."

After the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the first laudatory reviews appeared in international publications: "Discrete sequences, of astonishing clarity and density, with a rigor of construction camouflaged by the spontaneity of presentation", "A complex film, so full of ideas that you would expect that concern for aesthetics would not be a priority, but MRI is of an almost unbelievable beauty" notes Jessica Kiang in Variety. "RMN is a fascinating, very human exploration of the multiple problems facing Romania"  appreciates Jordan Mintzer in The Hollywood Reporter.

The participation in the International Balkan Theatre Festival "Balkan Breeze" in Bursa, Turkey, with the show "Tartuffe" continues to have positive echoes in the world of theatre. After the enthusiasm with which the show was received and rewarded at the Turkish festival, we are happy to announce that actor Richard Balint, the performer of the role of "Orgon", and director Vlad Trifaș (who signed, in addition to directing, the adaptation and original music of the show), were awarded by the jury of New Theatre Magazine, which offers the Awards for Activity and Achievements in Theatre at the end of the season.

New Theatre/Yeni Tiyatro Magazine is the only publication in Turkey dedicated exclusively to theatre, closely monitoring important theatre events around the world, and at the end of the season it offers the Activity and Achievement Awards. This year, the event is in its 9th edition and targets both Turkish and international theatre productions. The jury, consisting of valuable theatre personalities from Turkey, also considered the Queen Maria Theatre's performance "Tartuffe", and among the winners is actor Richard Balint, who is awarded the Best International Actor Award and director Vlad Trifaș, who is responsible for Best International Director AwardThe award ceremony will take place on Monday, June 13, at 6:30 PM (Turkish time), at the Caddebostan Cultural Center in Kadıköy.

Congratulations Richard Balint and Vlad Trifaș! We thank everyone who made possible the participation of the Regina Maria Theatre at the "Balkan Breeze" International Festival of Balkan Theatres in Bursa, especially the Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul for all the support provided.

The Regina Maria Theater responds positively The humanitarian campaign initiated by UNITER, in partnership with the Worldwide Reading Project and CITD (The Center for International Theatre Development) in Baltimore, Romanian artists for Ukrainian artists, a fundraising project that will take place between May 16th and June 15th.

The Regina Maria Theater in Oradea invites you to the premiere of the Iosif Vulcan Troupe's "The Quarrels of Chioggia", by Carlo Goldoni, artistic direction by Șerban Borda, which will take place on Sunday, May 8, at 7:00 PM, at the Arcadia Hall.

Carlo Goldoni (February 25, 1707, Venice – February 6, 1793, Paris) is considered the founder of Italian realistic comedy, being the playwright who revitalized the established dramatic form of commedia dell'arte Italian, by replacing masked figures with more realistic characters, the evasively structured and often repetitive action, with well-constructed plots and its predictable farce with a new spirit full of humor and spontaneity.

"The Quarrels of Chioggia" is a comedy in three acts, which brings to the fore the lives of two families of fishermen from a Venetian village, between whom a conflict arises that starts from a series of entanglements and love misunderstandings. The way in which the plot evolves, the attempts at reconciliation, the tricks, the language, the relationships between the characters create situations of a delicious comic, but manage to capture a picture of profound realism.

The Regina Maria Theater has designated the winner of the "Start-Up Theatre Director" program, intended for young directors in Romania, launched in January 2022.

The program consisted in the first stage of organizing a directorial project competition, which took place between January 27 and April 15, 2022. The participation criteria were: graduation from a specialized school, participants not to exceed the age of 30, to propose contemporary texts, and the concept of the show to comply with the requirements of the Short Theatre Festival (show with a maximum duration of 90 minutes, without intermission).

18 young directors entered the competition, who fully respected the participation criteria. The winner designated by the Management of the Regina Maria Theatre is Cătălin Mardale, who proposed the text "98% (the right decision)", written by Andreea Tănase. The next stage of the program consists of the actual realization of the winning project at the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre.

We thank everyone who responded to our open call and congratulate the winner!