Critica de teatru, în cautarea direciei
Theatre Criticism, Looking for Directions

Summary/Abstract: Theatre Criticism: Where To?, Miruna Runcan’s most recent book, published by Presa Universitară Clujeană, is a collection of essays in which the author uses the starting point she declares by the enticing question in the title in order to explore an array of issues regarding the mechanisms of production and reception of contemporary performances. ------------------------------------------ A Guide through a Maze of Ideas There are thousands of pages that have been written about Eugen Ionescu, Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd; libraries worldwide stand as witnesses. Any new attempt is a sort of balancing act on the razor’s edge; and yet, Tamara Constantinescu takes this risk and takes advantage of her double training (theatre and journalism) to allure us into a new journey inside the world of the female (and not only) characters from the theatre of the absurd.The author withdraws in the background in order to give us the chance of approaching the cryptic bridges of the relation between the theatre of the absurd and our (non)dramatic daily lives, marked by “...disappointments, desperation or pieces of memories heavy with the regret of unfulfillment, of lost illusions, of bitter failure.” A world caught between oneiric and reality, inside which drama receives the reverberations of farce, and innocence the degree of logic. Time diluted in memories, spaces narrowed through immobility, frailty hidden in extreme gestures – all these are analysed and given meanings that can draw the reader closer to the core of the characters/couples in the study.

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