📍 Courtyard of the Faculty of Theatre and Film (2 Burebista St.)

An exploration of the world of painting through contemporary photographic reinterpretations created by first-year students of the Film, Photography, Media programme.

Cast: Cristian Uță. Direction & dramaturgy: Ștefan Mihai. Text: Maria Manolescu. Project coordinator: Alexandra Felseghi. Voices (recordings): Mara Tătar, Cristina Bordeanu, Sorin Ionescu. Video & sound design: Ovidiu Zimcea.

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📍 Venue: Reactor de creație și experiment (4 Petőfi Sándor St.)

How honest can theatre be in a world where everything is performed, directed, and pre-packaged? “Abuzarea scenei” is a play about the limits of political theatre and the frustrations of those who step on stage in an attempt to “change the world.” About us, the artists. About you, the audience. About what binds us together in the darkness of the theatre hall, even when everything seems lost. Sivan Ben Yishai writes this text as a contemporary response to „Abuzarea publicului” (en: “Offending the Audience”) by Peter Handke, the 1966 manifesto play that radically questioned theatrical conventions and transformed the spectator’s passivity into an act of awareness.

Cast: Maialgesa Dat, Alexandra-Ioana Harapu, Maria Elena Morar, Victor Muntean, Mara Solomon. Directed by: Andrei Han, Alexandru Ceban, Ioana Dajbog. Author: Sivan Ben Yishai. Translation: Ciprian Marinescu. Supervising professors: Bobi Pricop, Mihai Gligan. Scenography & video coordination: Mihai Păcurar. Music & sound design: Mara Solomon. Technical support: Mara Sermășan.

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📍 Venue: Radu Stanca Hall, Faculty of Letters (31 Horea St.)

„Când soarele toarnă peste lume jar” is an original theatrical exploration that extracts fundamental relationships between characters from William Shakespeare’s famous plays and reorganizes them into a collage of eight scenes, each featuring two characters. The central theme of the performance is love as an adventure of self-discovery through the other. The chorus is the focal point of the production, translating, both visually and by sound, the psychic energy on stage, as well as the characters’ states and intentions. The show, whose sound universe is entirely created live, demonstrates how songs from diverse cultures can convey to the audience the emotional intensity of extreme confrontations in Shakespeare’s plays.

Cast: Izabela Tsujimoto, Andrada Coleșa, Jim Cojocaru, Georgiana Cristurean, Cristina Kubaș, Cristian Uță, Sînziana Olteanu, Andrada Bișu, Rareș Nistor, Iulia Bouroșu, Gabriel Enache, Anda Uivaroși, Lavinia Florea, Flaviu Balint. Supervising professors: Filip Odangiu, Sinkó Ferenc, Diana Aldea. Script: Filip Odangiu. Direction: Filip Odangiu, Sinkó Ferenc. Stage movement: Sinkó Ferenc. Costumes: Diana Aldea. Lighting design: Filip Odangiu. Lighting technician: Mara Sermășan.

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❓ Who is ARC Theatre Company?

👉 Class of 2022–2026, Acting Programme, Romanian Line

At the beginning of our journey, our professors gave us the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel and suggested that we call ourselves ARC Theatre Company. Actors are very similar to archers, and our art has much in common with the art of archery.

What explains the enduring fascination, unchanged for decades, of the experiences described in Eugen Herrigel’s book, lived along the “Way of the Bow” (Kyudo in Japanese)? It lies in the fact that the art of archery is not limited to merely trying to hit the target. When, after many years of striving for perfection, the archer finally forgets all conscious effort, so that the release of the arrow becomes perfect and occurs spontaneously, “like snow sliding from a bamboo leaf,” then one has discovered the secret of the “artless art” of archery, of Zen thinking, and even of life itself.

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📍 Venue: Room 14, Faculty of Theatre and Film (2 Burebista St.)

The show talks about the toxicity of the “manosphere” surrounding young boys and the negative influence that misogynistic male role models have on them.

What happens when a minor commits femicide?

Who is the aggressor and who is the victim when a child becomes part of a much more complex system?

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❓ Who is ARC Theatre Company?

👉 Class of 2022–2026, Acting Programme, Romanian Line

At the beginning of our journey, our professors gave us the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel and suggested that we call ourselves ARC Theatre Company. Actors are very similar to archers, and our art has much in common with the art of archery.

What explains the enduring fascination, unchanged for decades, of the experiences described in Eugen Herrigel’s book, lived along the “Way of the Bow” (Kyudo in Japanese)? It lies in the fact that the art of archery is not limited to merely trying to hit the target. When, after many years of striving for perfection, the archer finally forgets all conscious effort, so that the release of the arrow becomes perfect and occurs spontaneously, “like snow sliding from a bamboo leaf,” then one has discovered the secret of the “artless art” of archery, of Zen thinking, and even of life itself.

✅ Team 👉 https://sites.google.com/view/arc-ubb-cluj/echipa?authuser=0

✅ Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/arcubbteatru/

✅ Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/arcubbcluj

✅ YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@ARCUBB

✅ TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@arcubbcluj

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📍 Venue: Aula, Faculty of Theatre and Film (2 Burebista St.)

Cormac McCarthy’s “The Sunset Limited” explores, through the encounter between two middle-aged men, questions related to meaning, faith, and hope. At the time of its appearance, this existential conflict mainly reflected the dilemmas of a generation marked by life experiences, disappointments and a loss of trust in the world. In this production, the story is interpreted by student actors around the age of twenty, a choice that goes beyond the simple formal experiment and highlights the fact that existential uncertainty no longer belongs only to the later stages of life, but is becoming an increasingly present experience among younger generations.The minimalist stage setting amplifies the philosophical tension of the text: two radically different visions of the world that come into conflict. One of the characters stubbornly clings to the possibility of meaning in life, while the other perceives the world as fundamentally devoid of meaning and hope. The debate is not only intellectual, but deeply personal, being a confrontation between two ways of living and surviving.

Thus, “The Sunset Limited” becomes not only a story of disillusionment, but also a reflection on a generation that must confront, from the very beginning of its journey, questions once reserved for later stages of life. Ultimately, the show asks a simple yet unsettling question: if the idea of an ending is present from the start, how can life still be lived?

Cast: Imreh Tamás, Róbert Szilárd. Direction: Gemza Péter. Author: Cormac McCarthy.