Vol. 63 No. 2 (2018): Romanian Theatre Seen from Outside the Borders: Artistic and Critical Perspectives. Celebrating the Centenary of Modern Romania (1918-2018)

This second issue of our journal, dedicated in 2018 to the Romanian Theatre on the occasion of the Centenary of the Great Union, aims to reconstruct a kaleidoscopic image of the Romanian theatre seen from abroad, by foreigners, as well as of the Romanian theatre exported and seen abroad. Over the last two centuries, a great number of Romanian actors, singers and performers have been admired on the stages of the Comédie Française, of many theatres and operas in Paris, Vienna and New York. Since the very first avant-gardes, many playwrights have begun to write in Romanian and have continued their careers as theatre makers, writers or critics in France, in other European countries or in the United States. What shall we say about the numerous theatre schools and troupes founded by Romanian directors and theatre people abroad? About festivals that brought Romanian directors, dancers, actors, texts and performances everywhere, especially after the fall of communism? How is Romanian theatre seen from abroad? What were and are its echoes and reverberations, how was it and is it received? What is considered today "exportable" to other neighbouring or more distant cultures?