CARMEN LIDIA VIDU 01.01.1980 1998-1999 University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj, theatre director 1999-2003 National University of Theatre and Film “I.L.Caragiale”, Bucharest, theatre director The prize The Head of the …Director for [a bus station…], Buzau The prize for the best entry on the second international balkanart festival [Terminal00] for [a bus station...], Slovenia, Ljubljana Performances: 2002 – Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, Theatre ACT 2004 – Bitter Sauce by Eric Bogosian inspired by the sonnet 118 of W. Shakespeare, Theatre “Maria Filotti” Braila 2004 - Bitter Sauce performance, Theatre LUNI from Green Hours, Bucharest

2005 - I Hate Helen by Peca Stefan, ARCUB, Bucharest “I Hate Helen is not a play! But it surely is something that announces the art form of the next

decades. So why don’t you take a look?” Cristina Rusiecki

I Hate Helen is a multimedia show, an alternative comedy written by a Romanian author (still

alive) Peca Stefan about an alienated generation. Steve’s existence is marked and limited to his

room, where he laid out a small multimedia studio. It is here that he makes his illegal

transmissions.

For how long can you really feel you are not alone? What about your love life? And when does the hatred begin? I Hate Helen is a show that uses new media, musical mixes, animations, projections, and photography. “I Hate Helen is not a play, or to put it in a better way, it is not only a play. It is more like a movie, a Cartoon Networkly cartoon, a music; it sweats urban legend (snuff is just an example) it is underground and anti-underground at the same time and it is a savoury parody.

These elements, if considered separately, are successful, but if considered together, plus the actors’ performance, they are simply unheard-of and I must say very joyful. It a mixture of multimedia, a chaos finally aligned by the thread of the parody created by the media discourse.

It is a cliché about love and disillusion, transposed by new media, filtered by the projections and processed by the imaginary.” (Sonia Lodi) 2006 – [a bus station…] by Peca Stefan, Theatre of Comedy, Bucharest

A bus station. Night. The boy was sitting quietly on a bench. The girl was walking nervously from a place to another, waiting for the bus. A bus that was not to come too soon, at least not until the girl would understand that she was in a moment of her life when her mind and soul were in a blockage. This is where the name of the play comes from [a bus station…], the place where you expect to be taken from and taken further, in the direction you want. The chat with the boy met in the bus station resembles the one with The Little Prince, thing that makes the young girl admit her cowardness of not loving anything, not even the beautiful moon, only because the moon also has a dark side.

The girl falls in love with the boy. Now the bus stops in the bus station. The girl leaves. The moon has just succeeded in convincing a girl lost in the middle of the night that she was a girl coming from the moon.

2006 – Baby Smile, performance inspired by the sonnet 120 of W. Shakespeare, Undercloud Theatre, Bucharest

Baby Smile is a girl I met in a bar. She’s very beautiful and very Klimt. She’s like a nostalgic picture. Photos with the town. With her Less words about silence. When the sun rises, she smiles. At the beginning I wanted a photo-video experiment, but in the end it was a theatre performance. Shakespeare smiling.

2007 – The nightingale and the rose by Oscar Wilde, National Theatre

« short successions of visual flashes » Cristina Modreanu “She (Carmen Lidia Vidu) adds characters that look like models-faces with still expressions and

interrupted gestures, sophisticated attitude, perfectly settled” Cristina Modreanu

“An extraordinary combination of frightening cruelty and unbearable innocence” Cristina

Foarfa

“Something between a rock concert, a poetry show and multimedia happening” Razvan Nita

“An allegory of love and sacrifice, that brings emotion to a bearable level” Irina Airinei “A small perfect piece of jewellery” Nicolae Prelipceanu

2008 - C’est pas une chanson d'amour A show on how Bucharest is no longer a love story. Theatre director: Carmen Lidia Vidu Performers: Marius Manole, Florentina Tilea, Istvan Teglas, Paul Dunca Original Music: Ovidiu Chihaia Video: Cristian Gherghel Set design: Doru Zanfir Producer: ArtLink Association, Co-producer: Fabrica A multimedia show produced on the occasion of the European festival, TEMPS D'IMAGES

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Scenic directions A clip was created for each story, with actions that are ment to transmit the meaning of the expressed thoughts either through music or through the text. Each time a story starts to unwind, the space, by the means of projections, gets a distinct identity. Interpreters become support characters for the story in progress, depending on the spot where the story's action is placed. Through video projection, men's white clothes change their colors depending on the role they play in the respective moment. These videoprojected images or images that compose the story's video are both computer generated photographies and short movies. The show is not an action show, but an emotion show, of estates captured in theatrical, photographical and video images. Through their intensity and their dramatism, these estates will give dynamism to the show.

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A kaleidoscopic show, a mixture of images, music and intense experiences, reconciliations, or nerves as real as in life. Among the multitude of Bucharest's “constructions”, “C'est pas une chanson d'amour” has a solid structure, earthquake-safe. To be seen and heard. To be seen again.

“It is dreamlike and it is loud. Is the dirty and aggressive Bucharest life a projection? All of these at the same time, Carmen Vidu whispers, from under her multimedia scribbled eyebrows in one the rarest productions of the capital that offers tasteful pleasure and vulgarless fun. I would see “C'est pas une chanson d'amour” again any time at the “Clubul Fabrica”. So as to relax myself” By Cristina Rusieki “Time Out,” Magazine, the 8th of October.