HORSES AT THE WINDOW Tours To International Theatre Festival In Sibiu 6/6

Trap Door Theatre's critically acclaimed Horses at the Window, a wildly physical parody of war's elusive grip on our hearts and minds, is going to Romania! The work will be re-mastered to perform in a 16th century church in the Carpathian Mountains at InterNational Theatre Festival in Sibiu (Sibfest) and at the world renowned National Theatre in Bucharest. Sibfest, the Edinburgh Festival of Eastern Europe with a more serious edge, is held in the heart of cosmopolitan Sibiu - Horses' guest director, Radu-Alexandru Nica's hometown. Trap Door is grateful for all the recent local and international support to get them there, and is proud to represent Chicago and the U.S. in this amazing European extravaganza!

Critically acclaimed Romanian director; Radu Alexandru-Nica is well known for his attention to the "new realism" a movement dedicated to finding truth in a playwright's text, no matter how absurd. A native of Sibiu, Alexandru-Nica graduated from the Gh Lazãr, The National College of Sibiu in 1998 and studied Theater at the Ludwig Maximiliams University. He received his PHD in directing from University Lucian Blaga in Sibiu. He has assistant directed for Andrei Serban and Silviu Purcarete, two of the greatest Romanian theatre directors. Alexandru-Nica is the resident director of the National Theatre in Sibiu.

Matei Visniec playwright, poet and journalist, was born in Romania, and now lives in Paris. He began writing for the theatre in 1977. Early in his career Visniec's plays were banned by the Romanian censors. In 1987 he was invited to France by a literary foundation. While there, he asked for and received political asylum. After the fall of communism in Romania, in 1989, Visniec became one of the most performed playwrights in the country. Visniec gained international attention in 1992, with productions of Horses at the Window in France, and Old Clown Wanted at the "Bonner Biennale". Since then, Matei Visniec's work has been produced in France, Germany, United States, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, Romania, and Moldavia

"An astoundingly creative, evocative staging. Freewheeling but deceptively precise, [this] remarkably physical production-as much a dance piece as a play-teeters gleefully on The Edge of extravagance...a play full-to-bursting with striking visual metaphors! "
-Time Out Chicago

"Although directed by Romanian guest artist Radu-Alexandru Nica, the production's highly stylized, expressionist excess is pure Trap Door."
-Tony Adler, The Chicago Reader

"I can think of few other theater companies in Chicago, large or small, who consistently provoke me (as a critic) and disorient me (as an audience member) like Trap Door Theatre....Challenging and fringelike-as well as provoking and disorienting-are just a few adjectives to describe Trap Door's latest offering, Horses at the Window, by exiled Romanian playwright Matei Visniec. It's a robust piece of zany theater that has been directed with flirtatious aplomb by Romanian Guest Director Radu-Alexandru Nica."
-Fabrizio O. Almeida, New City Chicago

* Trap Door Theatre's wildly innovative take on Matei Vinsic's Horses at the Window honors it's Romanian roots at the InterNational Theatre Festival in Sibiu (guest director Radu-Alexandru Nica's home town) June 6th, and at the National Theatre in Bucharest June 9th.
* Trap Door Theatre's critically acclaimed Horses at the Window, a wildly physical parody of war's elusive grip on our hearts and minds, is going to Romania!

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