It all started when Theatre Bristol generously funded Nu Nu’s Ileana Gherghina travel/participation in the 2017 edition of IETM in Brussels, Belgium. There she had the chance to listen to a number of inspiring presentations and see some great performances. Importantly, Ileana met a number of theatre and performance festival directors from across the world… Read more...

ABOUT ME Initiator, along with Mihai Florea (University of Bristol Duignan Bursary-funded researcher) of Nu Nu Platform: a research-through-practice theatre platform. As a child, I used to play in the mirror or in the fields, in the countryside and imagine that I was a soprano. That felt so good… even though I did not have… Read more...

‘Come with me, will you! I’m afraid to be there on my own!’ my neighbor T tells me one late evening.   T’s Grandma had died the day before, alone in her little studio flat – somewhere a five minutes walk from where T and I lived.   First floor of the block of flats:… Read more...

This paper has been read by Mihai Florea at the Dialogues of Power Conference hosted by St Andrews University, Scotland, in October 2016.   When Michel Foucault – in 1975, in Discipline and Punish – brought again to attention the concept of the Panopticon, he most probably did not have Romania in mind. Otherwise, he… Read more...

I can’t even remember where I met Paula. It was maybe at one of the gatherings where we used to sing. Paula was already 21 and I was something like 12 or 13. Paula was a Gypsy orphan, long distance adopted by a family from Germany. She went to visit them once or twice and… Read more...

  A couple of blocks behind where I used to live were the orphans’ dormitories. Every day, early morning, they would be taken in column and lead by their carers to the other side of town, to their canteen and school buildings. Every day, late afternoon or towards the evening, the same column of orphans… Read more...

After the 1989 Revolution, Corso was the first place in my little hometown to make pizza. Corso was a confectionery built to the highest standards of ‘luxury’ by the Communists: the legend had it that during one of his tours of the country, Ceausescu dropped in to have some cake! After ’89, Corso had to… Read more...

I remember some lines from a play @ the National in Bucharest, end of the 90’s.   Marta: ‘How would it be then if we’d all stop eating? A nation-wide hunger strike: everybody, all the people. No one to eat… No one to buy anything from the shops anymore. To sit just like that, starving,… Read more...

  I was rehearsing this big play, the main role, in an important theatre with a director that I did not like very much. In short, I was a bit miserable. In the cast, there was also this old actor, whom I thought was not bad: he was kind of slower now and again but… Read more...

    When I was about ten or eleven, I used to go to church on Sundays and other religious holidays. I had seen some American religious cartoons on TV and that got me hooked. The parish priest grew to trust me so much that he gave me the keys to the church, to open… Read more...