ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

"Home play" in London schools

Home play, a Crafts Foundation Bucharest project, aims to promote traditional Romanian culture to young British audience using traditional folklore's unconventional ways.
In Romanian society, the immigration from the village to the city has contributed to a loss of the "home/roots" feeling. Home play aims to give back this link.

The project has two strands:
Marionette performance: which will present some of the passage customs (birth, wedding, funeral), and the actors will do a Q&A session with the children.
Marionette-making workshops: they will use materials (like wooden spoons) to create marionettes and puppets.

"We consider that the play is the one who connects us emotionaly with our starting places, in one way or another; towards other places or people, other customs, roules. From play to play, each of us has made the steps to maturity", says Bruno Mastan, one of the actors involved in the project.
Bruno Mastan is project coordinator at the International Foundation for Child and Family and Florentina Tanase is actress at Tandarica Theatre.

When: 29 October - 3 November 2007;
Where: Kensington Primary School & Pimlico School, London