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Romania Looks Back in Anger |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Claudia Woolgar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,449 Words, 14,689 Characters |
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Nicolae Ceausescu was shot three years ago last December. Milk lines still form in Bucharest on a daily basis. Gasoline prices can increase by 200 percent in one week. The local currency--the lei--is still nonconvertible. "Democratic" elections recently returned Ion Iliescu to power amid allegations of fraud. Romania is still angry, and its theater expresses that in a voice booming loud and clear from its stages.
The I.L. Caragiale Festival, Romania's annual national theater festival, encompasses the best productions from around the country. The 1992 festival last November in Bucharest was firm proof that one must go to Romania to find the most exciting theater of anything currently taking place in eastern Europe. The images presented on stage are enchanting as well as harrowing, and ...
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...d underworld. Who is he? How did Iliescu win the election?
Romanian theater is stunning visually and immensely powerful emotionally. But the past, white it will unavoidably color the present, must be allowed to rest. The theater, and the people, are undergoing a cathartic process in looking back in anger, but the past must begin to give way to a changing future on the stages of Romania.
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