The European Theatre Festival Eurothalia organized by the German State Theatre Timisoara (GSTT) continues with the following performances:

“nicht schlafen”, directed by Alain Platel, a Les ballets C de la B (Belgium)
Sunday the 8^th of October, at 21 o’clock and Monday, the 9^th of October, at 20 o’clock
in the Hall of the SC. Hydromatic Sistem. SRL;

“A house in Asia”, Agrupación Señor Serrano (Spain) production
Sunday the 8^th of October, at 19 o’clock
in the Hall of the German Theatre

and the film

“The Conquest of Difference”, directed by Exe Christoffersen
Monday, the 9^th of October, at 18 o’clock
in the studio hall of the Hungarian State Theatre “Csiky Gergely” Timișoara.

The Les ballets C de la B company was founded by Alain Platel in 1984, becoming an artistic platform for numerous choreographers and dancers. Alain Platel and the performances under his belt, have received dozens of awards over time, such as: The Critics Award in Belgium, the Grand Dance Prize in Canada, the Flemish Cultural Awards for Culture, Alain Platel was also awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, as well as the Golden Medal of the Royal Flemish Academy in Belgium.

Alain Platel explores themes such as death and suffering in “nicht schlafen”. A group of men gathers around some dead horses to perform a ritual. And amongst the men there is one woman. Is this the staging of a new Rite of Spring? Will a woman be sacrificed once more to atone for failing masculinity? The new production of director Alain Platel uses the work of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler as its starting point. It wasn’t love at first sight for Platel. Initially, he did feel particularly affinity with the era Mahler expresses in his work: an age of great acceleration and disruption leading up to the First World War. But then, in the nervousness and aggressiveness, passion and yearning for a lost harmony that is expressed by Mahler's music, Platel discovered also a match for the images he’s looking for in his work.

Agrupación Señor Serrano is a theatre company from Barcelona that creates productions based on contemporary tales, sometimes vintage, sometimes innovative in order to extend the borders of theatre. The company was awarded in 2015 with the Silver Lion Award at the Biannual in Venice.

In “A house in Asia” Through its trademark language (scale models, video projections, video editing in real time and willing performers) Agrupación Señor Serrano presents a scenic western where reality and its copies are mixed, drawing a merciless pop portrait of the decade following 9/11, and the seed for the 21st century.

Andreea Andrei - Artistic Consultant
Gabriela Schinderman- Secretary


Photo: Image from “nicht schlafen”, a Les ballets C de la B production and “A House in Asia”, a Agrupación Señor Serrano production. The photograph can be used in mass-media and promotional goals, including in electronic media.