Looking
for an exotic destination this fall? What about a trip to Transylvania
for an 11-day international drama festival. OK, but what"s that
got to do with UCSD? A lot. Gabor Tompa, the theater department's
newly appointed professor of directing,  is also the artistic director
of the 850-seat Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj, Romania, which
is celebrating its two hundred and fifteenth anniversary with a
festival starting November 29.
Cluj is nestled in the Carpathian Mountains of
Transylvania between Serbia, Hungary, the Ukraine and Moldavia,
and the festival reflects its place as an international crossroad.
Performances range from a dance creation by the celebrated French-Hungarian
choreographer Josef Nadj, to the dynamic Budapest theater troupe
Katona's mounting of Chekhov"s Ivanov, to a production of the grotesque
comedy Play Strindberg, by Teatro de la Abadía of Madrid.
Tompa will launch the festival with his new production
of Chekhov's Three Sisters, designed by UCSD theater professor
Andrei Both, who has also been invited to show a retrospective
of his
work. And UCSD dance professor Yolanda Snaith will bring her production
of The Garden Trilogy.
UCSD in the far flung Carpathians -- need directions?
Contributors to Making Waves: Mario Aguilera, '89, Rex Graham, Raymond Hardie, Robert Monroe, Neda Oreizy, '08, Doug Ramsey
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