Mondes by Alexandra Badea – Closing evening at the National Theatre

Performance, Radio drama | Language: French & Romanian, Open to the public, subject to availability

Alexandra Badea presents her play “Mondes”, rewritten especially or the Festival and performed at the National Theatre

The closing evening of the Festival Orizont Sonor is a way to celebrate artists and journalists that took part of this incredible sounds journey in one of the most emblematic place of Bucharest.

5:00 p.m. Doors open
5:30-6:00 p.m. Official welcome and speeches
6:00-7:00 p.m. Performance begins (please note that entry will not be permitted after the performance has started): Alexandra Badea‘s play Mondes, broadcast live on Radio Romania Cultural.
7:30-8:00 p.m. Discussion with the audience in French + Romanian
8:00-9:00 p.m. Cocktail reception

About Mondes: this play has been written in immediate response to current events. Two voices speak to each other without seeing one another, from two places in crisis, two hotpots of global chaos. Through virtual correspondence, they attempt to understand and to resist. Fueled by online images, the writing becomes poetic and urgent, questioning our relationship to violence and to the present moment itself. An attempt at fiction in the face of an unbearable reality.

A Making Waves production, commissioned by the French Institute in Romania.

Text: Alexandra Badea (Romania)
Translation: Svetlana Cârstean (Romania)
Direction: Alexandre Planck (France)
Music and sound design: Marie Guérin (France)
Interpreting: Alexandra Badea and Emilian Oprea

Alexandra Badea

Born in Romania in 1980, Alexandra Badea is a playwright, director, and author. Winner of the 2013 Grand Prix for Dramatic Literature for Pulvérisés, she explores tensions between the personal and the political in her work. She incorporates sound creation into her writing, giving voice to fragmented and immersive narratives. In 2023, she received the French Academy Theatre Prize for her body of work.

Marie Guérin

Marie Guérin, also known as Marie de la Nuit, is a singer-songwriter specializing in sound documentary and musique concrète. She explores radio archives and real-world sounds, blending hauntology, immersion, and memory. She creates for stage, radio, and installations in France and internationally. Winner of numerous awards, she has been a member of the Scam Sound Commission since 2021.

Emilian Oprea

Emilian Oprea is a Romanian stage and film actor, known for his powerful performances in both classical and contemporary roles. A graduate of the George Enescu University of Arts in Iași, he is currently a leading actor at the National Theatre in Bucharest (TNB), where he appears in productions such as Mary Stuart, The Seagull, Tango, and The Eichmann Trial.

His career spans over two decades, with significant roles at major Romanian theatres, including Teatrul Maria Filotti in Brăila and appearances in acclaimed films such as Why Me?, Orizont, Dogs, and HBO’s Valea Mută. Oprea received the Special Jury Prize at the National Comedy Festival in Galați in 2007.

Alexandre Plank

Trained in philosophy and dramaturgy, Alexandre Plank joined Radio France in 2010 as a producer. He creates fiction and documentary works for France Culture, RFI, RTBF, RTS, and Deutschlandfunk. Winner of numerous awards, including Prix Italia (2016, 2020) and the Grand Prix SGDL (2017), he co-founded in 2019 Making Waves, an association dedicated to creation, integration, and international solidarity through radio.

RADIO AND SOUND ART FESTIVAL, 2nd edition