Shakespeare International Festival '25

"UNITED BY SHAKESPEARE"

FESTIVAL AGENDA

October 14-19th


October 14, Day 1. Tuesday


12:00-13:00 Press conference


18:00 FESTIVAL OPENING


18:30 – 21:15 A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Mihai Ţărnă

Teatrul Fara Nume, Chișinău, MD

Duration: 145 min / Location: Teatrul Fara Nume /Sfatul Tarii 18 Street/

 

October 15, Day 2. Wednesday


12:00 – 12:45 Interview with Simion Buia

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, lobby


13:00 – 14:00 Workshop with Shakespeare scholars

Exploring Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Speaker: Dr Anna Kowalce-Pawlik, Polish Shakespeare Society, Gdansk

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, 2nd floor, Room 25


16:00 – 17:20 "Date with William" directed by Rostyslav Derzhypilskyi and Nadiia Levchenko

Ivan Franko Drama Theatre, vano-Frankivsk, UA

Duration: 80 min / Location: Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts/ Alexei Matievici 111 Str./


19:00 – 20:20 Feast: A play in one cooking, directed by Philip Paar

Parrabbola, UK

Duration: 80 min / Location: Teatrul Fara Nume



October 16, Day 3. Thursday


12:00 – 12:45 Interview with Simion Buia

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, lobby


13:00 – 14:00 Workshop with Shakespeare scholars

Shakespeare’s Female Characters: Between Myth and Subversion

Speaker: Dr. Sorin Cazacu, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Letters, University of Craiova

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, 2nd floor, Room 25


17:00 – 18:20 "Hamlet Mortuus Est", directed by Levente Kocsárdi and Mona Donici

Arte Factum, Timișoara, RO

Duration: 60 min / Location: Teatrul Fara Nume


19:00 – 22:00 "Richard III " directed by Albu István

Northern Theatre Harag György Company, Satu Mare, RO

Duration: 180 min / Location: Russian Drama Theatre A. Chekhov /Vlaicu Pircalab, 75 Street/



October 17, Day 4. Friday

12:00 – 12:45 Interview with Simion Buia

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, lobby


13:00 – 14:00 Workshop with Shakespeare scholars

Richard III: actor, monster, leader

Speaker: Prof. dr. Petru Golban, Namık Kemal UniversityTekirdağ

Namık Kemal University, Tekirdağ

Shakespeare at the crossroads of culture: translation, adaptation, stage production

Speaker: Emeritus Prof and Member of  Romanian Union of Translators, George Volceanov

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, 2nd floor, Room 25


16:00 – 17:15 "Hamlet", choreography by Ina Broeckx,

imPerfect Dancers, Italy

Duration: 70 min / Location: Russian Drama Theatre A. Chekhov /Vlaicu Pircalab, 75 Street/


19:00 – 21:00 "Macbeth" directed by Alfonso Zurro

Teatro Clásico de Sevilla, Spain

Duration: 120 min / Location: Teatrul Fara Nume



October 18, Day 5. Saturday

12:00 – 12:45 Interview with Simion Buia

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, lobby

 

13:00 – 14:00 Workshop with Shakespeare scholars

Macbeth: One tragedy, Different directorial takes

Speaker: Prof dr Tatiana Golban, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University

Workshop: Prof dr Jacek Fabiszak on Macbeth in European performance

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, 2nd floor, Room 25

 

16:00 – 17:00 "Shakespeare and the Masks" directed by M. Fusu, Chisinau, MD

Students performance

Duration: 60 min / Location: Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts/ Alexei Matievici 111 Str./

 

18:00– 19:30 "Desdemona’s Handkerchief" directed by Anca Sigartău

Shakespeare Imaginarium, Bucharest, RO

Duration: 90 min / Location: TFN

21:00 – 23:00 Festival Club Networking

 

October 19, Day 6. Sunday

12:00 – 12:45 Interview with Simion Buia

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, lobby

 

13:00 – 14:00 Workshop with Shakespeare scholars

Speaker: Prof dr Nicoleta Cinpoeş, Professor of Shakespeare Studies University of Worcester

Workshop: Prof dr Nataliya Torkut, Member of the Ukrainian Academy, Honorary Fellow of the University of Birmingham,

Head of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre.

Location: Teatrul Fara Nume, 2nd floor, Room 25

 

17:00 – 19:00 "Hamlet" directed by Declan Donnellan

National Theatre “Marin Sorescu”, Craiova, RO

Duration: 120 min / Location: National Theatre of Opera and Ballet Maria Bieşu /Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Bd 152/


"United Shakespeare International Festival 2025' is a festival that bring together actors, directors, critics, Shakespeare scholars, students, and spectators from different corners of Europe to speak through Shakespeare's work about the world today. In a threatened Europe, unity is needed. Not just a political unity, but also a spiritual, emotional, cultural, and artistic one.

The multinational nature of Shakespeare's work has this power—to unite what belongs to the spirit and emotion."


MIHAI ȚĂRNĂ, President of the festival, Chief Director of the "Teatrul Fără Nume" Theater.

Event organized under the patronage of the President of the Parliament, Igor Grosu,

the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova.