2022
Aplauze pentru poet • Radu Stanca
Poezii: “Cea mai frumoasă floare”, “Căzuse noaptea în cetate”, “Sunt cel mai frumos din orașul acesta”
Recită actorul Constantin Chiriac
Filmări realizate în ianuarie 2022, la Sibiu
Radu Stanca
b. 5 March 1920, Sebeş – d. 26 December 1962, Cluj
playwright, poet, essayist and theatre director
He started writing when he was in school and until 1945 he published lyrics, articles and essays in different publications, such as: Națiunea Română, Pagini literare (in Turda), Lanuri (in Mediaș), Afirmarea (in Satu-Mare), Familia (in Oradea), Gând Românesc, Symposion, Luceafărul, Universul literar.
He was a student of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in Cluj, which he graduated with a thesis on The Issue of Reading. His first stage appearance is in the role of Farfuridi from O scrisoare pierdută (A Lost Letter), directed by the university Professor Liviu Rusu. He taught the course Introduction to the aesthetics of theatre at the Popular Conservatory in Sibiu. In 1974, he is awarded with the Sburătorul Award for the manuscript of the play Dona Juana.
The first performance he directed, Căsuța din câmpie (Little House on the Plain), by S. Marshak, was premiered on 13 February 1949. Among the most important performances he directed, we mention: Gaițele (The Jays) by Al. Kirițescu – in four different stagings, O scrisoare pierdută (A Lost Letter) by I. L. Caragiale – in three different stagings, and Hagi Tudose by B. Delavrancea.
On 1 October 1956, the German Department of the Sibiu State Theatre is founded, on the urge of Radu Stanca. Starting with October 1961, he is main-director at the National Theatre in Cluj and here is where he directs his last performances: D-ale carnavalului (Carnival Adventures) by I. L. Caragiale and Uncle Vanya by A. P. Chekov.
