October 1st, 2015 – October 3-10, the Ion Creanga Theatre in Bucharest presents the 11th edition of the International Festival of Theatre for Children “A 100, 1,000, 1,000,000 Tales”. The Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest announced in a statement the participants in the event: the theaters La Baracca Testoni Ragazzi, Teatro Prova, Antonio Panzuto, TAM Teatromusica and Principio Attivo from Italy; Roseland Musical and Markeliῆe from Spain; The Puppet Theatre at the Crossroads (Slovakia); Dansmakers Amsterdam (Netherlands); The National Theatre of Monkey Country and Kunos Circus (Switzerland); Kabare Pupala (Germany); Orna Porat Theatre (Israel); and, for the first time in Europe, the Mandragora Circus from Argentina. Audiences will also have the opportunity to attend performances by Romanian theater companies dedicated to children and young people: the Ariel Theatre (Targu Mures), the Youth Theater (Piatra Neamt), Teatro Excelsior (Bucharest), the Queen Mary Theater – company Arcadia (Oradea) and the Arlechino Theatre (Braşov). The official opening of the Festival will take place on Saturday, October 3 at the Teatro Excelsior, with the first performance by the Theatre Ion Creanga on “Spaima Zmeilor”, a Romanian musical created by a team of artists (Gelu Colceag – director, Ioana Pashca – set designer, Stefan Lupu – choreographer, Calin Grigoriu – composer). The best shows and artists will receive their prizes on Saturday, Oct. 10 at the closing gala of the festival. The jury is made up of theater personalities from Romania and other countries, namely: Slobodan Markovic (Director of the International Festival of Children Theatre in Subotica, Serbia), Maria Zarnescu (critic), Emil Boroghina (founding director of the International Festival of Shakespeare Theatre), Emilia Popescu (actress) and Philippe Besson (director, Germany). (Red)
