The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv and the Citizen Kan Theatre Festival are proud to invite you to the lecture "Open Society Theatre" held by the Romanian theatre critic Ioana Moldovan, as part of the Conference on Society and Culture. Yaacov Chefetz, artist and social activist will also participate at the event which will take place Thursday, December 19, 2013, 7:00 pm, at Karov Theatre. The lecture, held in English, will be included in the Conference on Society and Culture moderated by Dorit Nitai Neeman – director of the festival.
Conference on Society and Culture
Thursday, December 19, 2013, 7:00 pm
Moderator: Dorit Nitai Neeman
Participants: Ioana Moldovan (Romania) and Yaacov Chefetz
The event will take place in Hebrew
Details: Karov Theatre (116 Levinski St., entry no.41, 4th floor–Tahana Merchazit - Tel Aviv) tel: 03-6885004, fax: 03-6877898, t-karov@zahav.net.il, www.t-karov.co.il
Theatre is a fine barometer, one of the most active and powerful components of the introspection process that a society can afford and is available. This is why the way in which human society is organized will have an overwhelming influence on Theater too. After World War II, the model that captivated the attention of all thinkers (politicians, economicians, cultural) was the open society.
"Open society is a form of organization that can be simplistically described as democracy. (...) But it doesn’t mean only a democratically elected government, but it also relies on the existence of a society that is not dominated by state, that demands the existence of a strong civil society in a climate of law supremacy", wrote in a 1995 article Mr. George Soros.
"Open Society Theater" is a presentation that aims to debate the valences and functions of Theater in a geo-political and economic climate, particularly marked by multiple changes, economic and political crises, wars, technological development and globalization.
Ioana Moldovan has been a member of the Romanian Section of the International Association of Theater Critics since March 2007. She started to publish theatre reviews in 2007 and is now a regular theatre critic for Revista 22, a political weekly magazine. Since March 2007 she is a member of the professorial staff of the “I.L.Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Cinematographic Arts in Bucharest – Department of Theater Studies, Cultural Management and Theater Journalism. In between 2006-2009 she was involved with ACT Theater in Bucharest, the first independent theatre stage in Romania, where she served as a cultural manager, discovered young actors and worked on productions that earned ACT Theater three UNITER National Theater Prize nominations. She is also a 2010-2011 Fulbright Junior Grantee with the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, with the research topic of “Open Society Theater”. In 2006 her short play “Diagnosis” has been produced together with other five Romanian short plays by The Play Company New York at 59E59 Theatre in New York (directed by Thomas Caruso; cast: Rosemary Prinz and Robert Hogan). Since May 2013, Ioana Moldovan is Fulbright Ambassador for Romania, with a five year mandate.
Details: t-karov@zahav.net.il, www.t-karov.co.il
