... contemporaries in Romania and in Europe. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Pantagruel’s Cousin, directed by Silviu Purcărete, coproduction of Hungarian Theater, Radu Stanca National Theater, and Silviu Purcărete Company, 2003. Photo: Pierre Borasci Andrea Tompa...

.... In the four decades since his graduation from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in 1967, Stürmer has designed sets and costumes for more than 200 productions at theaters through- out Europe, garnering critical acclaim and countless awards. (His collaborations with director Silviu Purcărete...

... Society Up Front I first grasped the richness of Romania’s theater on a humid but intoxicating sum- mer evening in New York City’s Damrosch Park. It was the 1997 American premiere of Les Danaïdes, director Silviu Purcărete’s reconstruction of Aeschylus’s lost Suppli- ants tetraology...

... to the West for the first time, and some of the major Roma- nian theater directors (Silviu Purcărete, Gábor Tompa, Mihai Măniuţiu) began to work abroad and gain international recognition. The iron curtain vanished in those first years of freedom, but its dark shadow lingered over what began to look like...

..., Alexandru Tocilescu, Gabor Tompa, Victor Ioan Frunza, and Alexander Hausvater as artistic “survivors” of the old regime, while Silviu Purcarete represents the present and future of Romanian theater. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Cristina Modreanu The Old Road Rapidly...

...: Pantagruel’s Cousin, directed by Silviu 33 Silviu Purcărete’s World Purcărete, Radu Stanca Andrea Tompa...

... director Silviu Purcarete, co- produced in 1996 by the National Theater of Craiova, the Holland Festival in Amster- dam, the Avignon Festival, and the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, with other partners joining later. It was seen in New York...

... The Tempest, directed by Silviu Purcărete, Theatr Clwyd and Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, 1995 97 ...

... directors, such as Silviu Purcărete, modest until that point, received a boost in international acclaim. As for playwriting, people in the theater were still busy paying respect to Matei Visniec, a formerly banned poet and playwright, living in Paris. Between 1990 and 1995 at least one of his...