Felelősségem tudatában kijelentem – A világ legjobb gyermeke
I Declare at My Own Risk - The Best Child in the World

Summary/Abstract: The Roma actress and playwright Alina Șerban has gained international recognition with her text and performance entitled I Declare at My Own Risk – The Best Child in the World, which was directed by David Schwartz and premiered in 2011, starring the writer herself. The text of this play has been a work in progress ever since the beginning, and it can now be read in Hungarian in Beáta Adorján’s translation. Alina Șerban was born in 1987 in Bucharest. She graduated in 2009 from the National University of Theatre and Film of the Romanian capital, continuing her studies in New York and London. As a Roma woman from Romania, social activism and engagement is an organic part of her work as a performer and writer struggling against the many phenomena of discrimination, such as sexism, racism, and homophobia. Her I Declare at My Own Risk – The Best Child in the World is a biographically inspired text, reconstructing on the basis of diary fragments and first-person accounts the basic experience of how the existing caste systems and the everyday forms of stigmatization permeate our image of ourselves and our identity construction. Șerban’s work confronts us with all these issues through its captivating and heartbreaking humour. The theatrical staging of her childhood and maturation is built on a rhetoric that considers the personal involvement of the​ reader and spectator an integral part of the testimony.

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