Subversive Stages: Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria

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Title: Subversive Stages : Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria

Contains: Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Foreword. The Ghosts of History Redux: Intertextuality, Rewriting, Adaptation
Introduction
Part 1 THE RUSSIAN AND FRENCH MASTERS
I. The Political Ghosts and Ideological Phantasms of Nic Ularu’s The Cherry Orchard, A Sequel
II. Adapting Molière and Jules Verne to Soviet Censorship: The Alchemical Politics of Bulgakov’s A Cabal of Hypocrites and The Crimson Island
III. György Spiró’s The Impostor: Rethinking Molière’s Tartuffe for Communist Hungary
Part 2 SHAKESPEARE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
IV. Stalinist “Traitors” and “Saboteurs”: Matéi Vișniec’s Richard III Will Not Take Place or Scenes from the Life of Meyerhold
V. Staging Hamlet as Political No Exit in Géza Bereményi’s Halmi
VI. Nedyalko Yordanov’s The Murder of Gonzago: Reading Bulgaria’s Communist Political Culture through Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Part 3 INSERTING GOD INTO POLITICS
VII. Specters of State Power, History, and Politics of the Stage: Vlad Zografi’s Peter or The Sun Spots
VIII. Inserting God into the Communist Personality Cult: Stefan Tsanev’s The Other Death of Joan of Arc
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Contributor: Orlich, Ileana Alexandra [Author]; Komporaly, Josefina [Contributor]; Komporaly, Jozefina [Contributor]

Published: Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (238 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9789633861189

ISBN: 9789633861189

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Keywords: Communism and literature Europe, Eastern ; East European drama 20th century History and criticism ; East European drama--20th century--History and criticism ; English drama Adaptations History and criticism ; French drama Adaptations History and criticism ; Russian drama Adaptations History and criticism ; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism ; Censorship, Communism, Cultural studies, Drama, Freedom of expression, Postcommunism, Theater

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Footnote: In English

Description: Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthetic devices used as political tools, Orlich makes a very strong case for the continued relevance of the theater as one of the subtlest media in the public sphere. She embeds her close readings in a thorough historical analysis and displays a profound knowledge of the political role of theater history. In the Soviet bloc the theater of the absurd, experimentation, irony, and intertextual distancing (estrangement) are not seen as mere aesthetic language games but as political strategies that use indirection to say what cannot be said directly

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