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Bones for Prince @ The Camden Fringe

         

The play Bones for Prince (original title Bones for Otto), by celebrated Romanian playwright, director and actress Lia Bugnar, explores the concerns and prejudices of two women who met in extreme circumstances: a professional prostitute, working on streets to feed her family and an opera singer who desperately needs £500 to fly to New Zeeland for her dream job - the lead role in La Traviata.

The play was first performed in Romania in 2003 and won the Fringe-Project Award at the 2004 ESB Dublin Fringe Festival.

Lia Bugnar has a strong sense of drama, of dialogue, she knows how to make us laugh and cry in the same time. Her text is alive, is real, has the power to impress.
Oltita Cintec (journalist)

During his Attic Arts Residency at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, Christian Hogas directed this performance, bringing a new perspective on the topic due to the emerging English & Romanian actresses: Alice Fernbank (UK) and Andreea Paduraru (Romania).

It is funny and touching at the same time. Christian Hogas production focuses on the performers undistracted by any setting but considerably helped by a carefully planned soundscape by Matt Hall. Movement director Omar F> Okai gives a degree of stylization to their flaunting that matches the theatricality of the situation, with the naïve singer awkwardly imitating the practised professional who turns out to be pretty soft-hearted, though Paduraru makes sure that this doesn’t come over as cliché. (..) This show runs less than an hour but not a minute is wasted.
Howard Loxton (The British Theatre Guide)

Bones for Prince was performed during the Romanian Season at the New Diorama Theatre, London (May 7, 14, 21) and at the Romanian Cultural Institute London (April 29, May 15).

Christian Hogas graduated from the National University of Drama and Film “I.L. Caragiale”, Performing Arts department. He worked with various theatres in Bucharest, Budapest and London, both as actor and director.

Directed & produced by: Christian Hogas
Music by: Monooka; Sound design by: Matt Hall
Movement direction by: Omar F. Okai
Costumes and set design by: Dinu Bodiciu
Cast: Alice Fernbank (UK), Andreea Paduraru (Romania)
Running time: approx. 1 hour, no interval
Age guidance: 16+

The performance of Bones for Prince at The Camden Fringe is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

When: 18th, 19th, 20th August, 6.30pm
Where: The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, 42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, NW5 2ED
Tickets: 08444 77 1000 or www.camdenfringe.org (£7.50).