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Misguided Intentions

Summary/Abstract: Réka Dálnoky’s play is the winner of the Communitas Foundation’s drama competition on Romanian-Hungarian coexistence, which was staged as a joint production of the Liviu Rebreanu and Miklós Tompa Company of the National Theatre of Târgu Mures in 2018, as part of the centenary events. Like other Romanian-Hungarian dramas and theatre performances about Romanian-Hungarian coexistence, Dálnoky’s text considers the approach to the theme inseparable from bilingualism and mixed casting. Misguided Intentions thus reveals situations of understanding, non-understanding, misunderstanding, cultural and power games in which the spectator plays an important role from the moment of seating to the moment of leaving the theatre. The author frames the events as a show reminiscent of TV contests, referring to ethnic rivalries. And the show has it all: a sports match, a skills competition, a social science presentation, and even theatrical self-reflection, revealing the conflicts of a bilingual acting team. The drama seems to suggest that there is no situation before or after the constructed theatre that is not permeated by the conflictual relations of ethnic coexistence in a visible or less visible way. It also points out that it matters how we decide and what we choose in these situations.

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