Cristian Dumitrescu (M) - Head of the delegation / Teacher&Director; Mihai Dumitrescu (M) – Lights&Sound Designer; Giorgia Bistriceanu (F) - Student; Briana Cioană (F) - Student; Ștefan Tănase (M) - Student; Rareș Ioan (M) - Student; Sofia Gheorghe (F) - Student; Filip Țigău (M) - Student; Dragoș Badea (M) - Student; Raluca Matei (F) - Student; Mihai Pop (M) – Student

Fundatia Cultural-Artistica SIGMA ART, Bucuresti, Romania

SIGMA ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation, Bucharest, Romania

14 Mitropolitul Nifon Sector 4 Cod 040502 Bucuresti, Romania

+40 722 308 547

Cristian Dumitrescu - sigma_art_romania_info@yahoo.com

Cristian Dumitrescu - sigma_art_romania_info@yahoo.com

SIGMA ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation, founded in 1995 in Bucharest, Romania, is a Cultural, Educational and Artistic Theatre School and Resource Centre- which offers support(behaviour, attitude) to young people, artists and to other organisations which have similar objectives. According to its Cultural-Educational(theatre workshops and drama & education) and Artistic(theatre performances) activity, SIGMA ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation is the first and the only school and institution of "Theatre and Drama in Education"( T&DiE) in Romania, recognized nationally and internationally, which represents an important formal and informal segment of Art and Education in Europe(www.dramanetwork.eu). Using theatrical techniques, in which are analysed social and moral problems through workshops and theatre performances, the youngsters became, in time, full participants and leaders of the theatre artistic and educational process. The entire process of selecting the scripts and producing the theatre performances is closely assisted by professional theatre directors, actors and dancers. The theatre performances take place mostly at Sigma Art’s Studio, in high schools, universities, professional theatres(as ACT Theatre in Bucharest), national and international theatre festivals. Basically, SIGMA ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation is oriented into two main activity fields: Education and Theatre Performances. Main international theatre festivals in which Sigma ART Theatre Company have presented performances: -Bunte Buehne festival(19/2008, 20/2009, 21/2010, 22/2011 and 29/2019 editions); -Shakespeare festival(12/2011 edition); -the DICE - Sigma-Art – International T&DiE tour GALA festival organized each year, from 2010 by SIGMA-ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation in Bucharest.

R’ACT – I don’t want to be a buffoon anymore!... theatre, dance and music ‘marathon’ performance presents a caricatured perspective on nowadays social life due to the contrast among the spiritual evolution of the Renaissance under Elisabeth the 1st and the human involution under the pseudo-communist ’’era’’ and after… As a natural consequence, Shakespeare became the one who helps to bring us into Reality and to become contemporary with nowadays history; even to receive main authentic answers. The play starts in 1989, in the Romanian part of Moldavia at the ‘’Trainica Moldova’’(‘’Livelong Moldavia’’) factory. There is a celebrating atmosphere with the opportunity of the 23rd of August, the day when the Romanians have been forced, in 1944, to be on the side of the Russian Soviet Union leaded by Stalin... We are interested about the atmosphere of those times in order to understand the event’s evolution: where Europe is now and how nowadays social life will change our future... And here we need to meet King Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia and Puck as main ’agents of change’, able to highlight the field of Matei Vișniec who’s completing the Stalinist atmosphere from ’’Livelong Moldavia’’ with its well known caricature style… Based on a slapstick created by several confusions appeared because of the celebrating day and the visit of an outsider person as Romeo Pop, the first Act of the play  presents actually some underground conflicts generated by Pigulete, the  communist system’s guy in the factory. In the second Act of the play the slapstick evoluate to the ’Reality’ of any dictatorial system which is always a tragedy IN ACTION. It is now the turn of the outsider person, Romeo Pop, who became in the second part of the play Lulu, to became the surprising ‘change factor’ of the system. Lulu succeeds to clarify Iola’s position, the only sensitive element able to weaken Gufi’s dictatorial bubble. We hereby consider Sigma ART’s play as being mostly an optimistic play, because our tired systems will meet one day through Lulu: KING LEAR and HAMLET, through Iola: OPHELIA, through Bubi: PUCK!

PART1R’ACT:  https://www.facebook.com/sigmaart.romania/videos/2366848476914891/PART2 R’ACT:   https://www.facebook.com/sigmaart.romania/videos/2366847873581618/