L’imaginaire est apolitique : Pierre ou les Taches solaires de Vlad Zografi
The Imaginary is Apolitical: Peter or the Sun Spots by Vlad Zografi

Summary/Abstract: Among post-1989 Romanian playwrights, Vlad Zografi is perhaps the most disturbing and elusive. His distinctive work is punctuated by mythological and historical incursions, reinterpreted in contemporary key (Oedipus in Delphi, Peter or the Sun Spots and The King and the Corpse). Zografi comprehensively questions theories of theatre and of representation, our condition as sensitive and thinking beings, as well as our historical paradoxes. I have specifically chosen to analyse Peter or the Sun Spots to showcase the dispersed imaginary from which Zografi tackles civilization and barbarity; the inability to change the human condition; and the fragility of action in the context of two solitudes (France and Russia) at the heart of Europe. This theatre play, presented at Bonner Biennale with a resounding success, represents a theatrical synthesis of his political, metaphysical, and poetic message.

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