COLLOQUIA “MUNDUS ET NOS” TELEMOLDOVA PLUS come with two book and theater launches, Sunday, March 3, 2024

The books “The Night of Cherry Flowers” by Barbu Bebe Naidin and “The Freedom to Be… the burden of normality” by Petru Frăsilă and will be performed the play “Forbidden Journalist” by Vali Bolat, directed by Stefan Hagimă.

TeleMoldova Plus – in partnership with ASKRO TV London and in collaboration with Bucharest Literary Detective Publishing House and the Union of Professional Journalists in Romania – organizes the launch of the books “The Night of Cherry Flowers” by Barbu Bebe Naidin and “The Freedom to Be… the burden of normality” by Petru Frăsilă, as well as the presentation of the play “Forbidden Journalist” by Vali Bolat, directed by Stefan Hagimă.

The event is a new edition of TeleMoldova Plus Colloquia, entitled “Mundus et nos” (“The World and Us”) and will take place at the Romanian Playwrights’ Theatre Bucharest (Calea Griviței no. 64-66), on Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 15:00.

Both books are published by Detectiv Literar Bucharest Publishing House. As the organizers say about the play, “any resemblance to Petru Frăsilă’s life is not accidental at all”. The cast includes Alina Neagu and Gianina Diaconu – as the Secretary, Bogdan Cășeriu – as the Journalist and Valentin Braniste – as Baron Ceafă Lata.

The speakers will be Claudia Motea, Emilian Marcu, George Daraban, Laurențiu Calomfirescu, prof. dr. Alin Lupu, Emil Stanciu, Miron Manega, Cornel Cepari, and Firiță Carp. The moderator will be Ovidiu Zanfir, and the host – Petru Frăsilă, director of the national TV channel TeleMoldova Plus.

The author of the book “The Night of Cherry Flowers”, Barbu Bebe Naidin, is the father of the well-known cellist Adrian Naidin.

“Until I listened to his voice accompanying the diaphanous chords of the cello, with which he tends to be entwined in a divine merging, I did not know what Naidin meant. I never imagined that I would ever wonder what this name expresses, following in the cadence of a celestial sonority the first name Adrian.

Now I know only too well what Naidin means. It is an inspiring sublime, which makes the cello a living being. Or maybe he is even an angel sent by God to rejoice us, with the ineffable of his creation, as a reward of our belief that the sublime exists”, confesses Firiță Carp, director of Literary Detective Publishing House.

“It was the same Petru Frăsilă I knew, who seems to pass with a hurried eye, like the one on the camera, over a man, a place, an event, and then to “archive” everything, but, in fact, things are completely different. After the shows, it can be seen, his thought goes back to those people who left a deep impression on him, to those places he passed through and impressed him, or to who knows what memories of the times when “being a boy” … He writes such pages, capturing the details on the paper page, and with his heart, not only with that hurried ‘eye’ of the journalist always pressed by time”, writes Marius Chelaru in the preface of the book “The freedom to be”.

The actor, playwright and director from Bacău Valentin Braniste (Vali) Bolat is a graduate of the Faculty of Acting of the “Hyperion” University of Bucharest, and currently he is an actor of the “Bacovia” Theater Bacau.

The colloquia will be broadcast live by both the national TV channel TeleMoldova Plus and AskroTV London.