Thursday, February 25, 18:30 EET (GMT +02:00)
Ethiopia
Director: Meron Abey / Ethiopia
Actor: Claudiu Bleonț
Episode: Day 1. Story 4
about the Director
Meron Abey
Meron Abey has first appeared as a producer in Theater. After, she had been successful as a playwright and director of the Ethiopian Nation and Nationalities Day grand opening musical theater performance.
Meron’s ability to organize and direct crowd scenes has allowed her to direct the 11th UNESCO annual meeting Open Night Stage Performance and the 12th annual Ethiopian Nation and Nationalities Day after a year of her graduation.
Meron studied performing and visual arts at Addis Ababa University, School of performing and visual arts.
Meron has an interest in the multidisciplinary approach to problems. She is now exploring how the arts could strengthen the health care service, social equity, and brain health. Meron now lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
about the actor
Claudiu Bleonț
Claudiu Bleonț is an actor-show himself, a fascinating story creator, he is unpredictable, spontaneous, profound, explosive and subtle. A special blend of emotion, spirituality, playful force, sensitivity, eccentricity, and warm simplicity of the naturalness, he is one of the most important theatre and film actors of Romania.
In 1983, he graduated from the ”I.L. Caragiale” Institute of Theatre and Film (I.A.T.C.) Bucharest, class Prof. Grigore Gonţa and has collaborated over time with prestigious theatres from all over the country: Bulandra Theatre, Odeon Theatre, Comedy Theatre, Nottara Theatre, Youth Theatre in Piatra-Neamț and the Bucharest National Theatre, whose employee he was for 20 years. Since 2012, he has been an actor at the „Marin Sorescu” National Theatre in Craiova.
He is an artist of the extremes that attract and amplify each other in his roles. Bleonț had the chance to work with legendary directors who ”reset” him, such as Liviu Ciulei – Spring Awakening, Bulandra Theatre; Vlad Mugur – L’Affaire de la rue de Lourcine, Youth Theatre, Piatra-Neamț; Andrei Șerban – The Ancient Trilogy, The Cherry Orchard, Our Country’s Good, Bucharest NT; Cătălina Buzoianu – Ivory Tower, Comedy Theatre; Horea Popescu – Caligula, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Bucharest NT) or Robert Wilson – Rhinoceros, Craiova National Theatre.
He was twice nominated for the UNITER Prizes, for Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Beatrice Rancea, and Ion Nebunul in Năpasta by I.L. Caragiale, directed by Radu Dinulescu, both productions staged at the Bucharest National Theatre.
With an extraordinary career in cinema (almost 30 roles, in Romanian and international films), Claudiu Bleonț made a remarkable debut, in the leading roles in the director Dan Pița’s Contest (1984) and Paso doble (1986), for which he was awarded the Prize for Best Actor at the Festival in Costinești.
The Romanian-French co-production An Unforgettable Summer, directed by Lucian Pintilie, where he excellently played Capt. Petre Dumitriu alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, was presented in the official selection at Cannes, in 1994.
In the current season, he can be seen at the Craiova National Theatre, in the very courageous directorial proposals of young directors such as Bobi Pricop (Claudiu Bleonț is Tim, in the intense experimental performance The Author by Tim Crouch) or Dragoș Alexandru Mușoiu (Dr. Givings in In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl; Radu in The Break-in after Răzvan Petrescu) as well as in the impressive productions of Ajax. An Essay on Dementia after Sophocles, directed by Mihai Măniuțiu (role: Generalissimo Ajax); Athens by Night after W. Shakespeare, directed by Charles Chemin (roles: Timon; Quince).
