...Cristina Modreanu Romanian theater scholar Cristina Modreanu discusses the primary model of dramaturgy, classical texts presented in a realistic style, has evolved after 1989 in Romania to accommodate new visual styles of avant-garde directors. Modreanu describes directors such as Mihail Maniutiu...

... 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...

... 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...

...Razvan Penescu In this personal essay, Romanian publisher (LiterNet.ro) Razvan Penescu writes about his decision not to applaud a poor performance at the National Theater of Bucharest and how his dissent represents an expressive freedom that was disallowed in communist Romania. © 2009 by Yale...

...Alina Nelega Alina Nelega offers a playwright's perspective on the development of playwriting in post-communist Romania. She details the challenges faced by new playwrights in a primarily visual, director-driven theatrical culture, and discusses the history of programs like Dramafest and dramAcum...

... recent belongs to their parents. This understanding archival research on theater censorship in Romania has become crucial, since that past was hiding under communism? What kinds of documentation multiple collective traumas, which, if unde- did you find, and what was the intended goal? tected...

... strategy was slow to develop to meet the difficult requirements for European integration. Romania shared many experiences with other Central and Eastern European countries following the fall of their respective commu- nist regimes in 1989. But what may be specifically Romanian was the undecided politi...

... ground! pageant elena (Singing) Once was a man, oh we shall say: such a man his man Will the Romanian people never who brought to Romania liberty breathe freely? Will we be forever ruled by a and restored all her native dignity. succession of oppressor nations? The Romans, He...

... on censorship research, its associated e-publishing house. He is also specializing in Romanian theater during the senior manager in the Valuation and Strategy communist era, and is author of more than department at PricewaterhouseCoopers fifty articles. His books Theater Life during Romania. He...

... © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 DragoŞ Buhagiar. Photo: DragoŞ Buhagiar 60 Portfolio Dragos¸ Buhagiar’s Stage Designs Dragoş Buhagiar, a stage and graphic designer, was born in Braila, Romania, in 1965. Since...

... workshop of the play ula Pageant in 1998. At that time the revolu- [May 2008], but prior to its rehearsal and A.R.T. tion was still a terribly puzzling event for [Amercan Repertory Theatre] premiere in October Romanians and outside observers alike with 2008, you will travel throughout Romania...

....” “Subversion” through exaggerated “overidentification with nationalistic rhetoric” offers another potential counteraesthetic. Copyright © 2018 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2018 nationalism Romania Hungary kitsch folklore Eastern Europe performance postdramatic theater reenactment...

... I want to begin by asking about your a nineteenth century theater that’s now early encounters with Chekhov’s plays quite deteriorated, almost a ruin. In Andrei Serban in Romania. Were his works performed Brook‘s production, the theater itself was there on a regular basis...

... © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 The Lower Depths, directed by Liviu Ciulei, Bulandra Theater, Bucharest, 1975. Courtesy of Helmut Stürmer Portfolio Helmut Stürmer and the Romanian Theater Helmut Stürmer was born in Timişoara, Romania, in 1942...

... at La Mama ETC and Collective:Unconscious, as well as abroad, in Romania and Malta, and is the artistic director of East River Com- media — who has watched rocketing real estate costs and inadequate funding hobble a vital theater community. Bargetto sees it as the first salvo in a program of self...

... of the indepen- dent theater scene — he has worked at La Mama ETC and Collective:Unconscious, as well as abroad, in Romania and Malta, and is the artistic director of East River Com- media — who has watched rocketing real estate costs and inadequate funding hobble a vital theater community. Bargetto sees...

... anti-Semitism that united the petit bourgeoisie, lumpen proletarians, officers, landowners, and intellectuals. Throughout the book, as Romania plunges into a dictatorship and suffers in Hitler’s military adventures in Dobrudza and Ukraine, and later under Allied air bombings, Sebastian strives to keep...

... to national identities and purposes. Nostalgia is Romania in 1990, after twenty years in exile, to often strong for the security of the past. assume the directorship of The National The- The gains are that theater artists now ater in Bucharest, expresses his...

... the United States and countries of the former Soviet bloc, among other initiatives. We will be looking also at theater in Romania — whose past émigrés have pro- foundly influenced the American stage — and in the three “color revolution” countries: Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. (Theater’s Russia...

... at theater in Romania — whose past émigrés have pro- foundly influenced the American stage — and in the three “color revolution” countries: Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. (Theater’s Russia issue was published in winter 2006, and numerous issues have looked at new productions and directors in Poland...