Introduction. Reinstating Culture both as a Common Good and as a Public Service: Towards Raising Awareness

ŞTEFANA POP-CURŞEU, Ph.D. at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Theatre and Scenic Arts, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Film of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, where she teaches antique and medieval theatre history and modern theory of theatre. She published many articles in the domain of Theatre, in France and Romania. She translated alone or in collaboration with Ioan Pop-Curşeu a dozen of books from French to Romanian, such as Samuel Beckett, Sfârșit de partidă, 2000, L.-F. Céline, Convorbiri cu Profesorul Y, 2006, Pascal Vrebos, Avarul II, 2010, Gilles Deleuze, Imaginea-mişcare, 2012), and is author of the book: Pour une théâtralité picturale. Bruegel et Ghelderode en jeux de miroirs, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, Cluj-Napoca, coll. Teatru-Eseuri, 2012. She wrote in collaboration with Ioan Pop-Curșeu two theatre scripts and directed two performances  based on these scripts (Killed by Friendly Fire, 2014 and Every Tzara has his Dada; 2016). She is also, since 2011, the artistic director of The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca.