New Dramatic Structures, Negotiable Imaginary Spaces. On Assuming the Experimental Condition Theatre review of “M.I.S.A. PĂRUT”, by Alexa Bacanu, a production of Reactor, Cluj, directed by Dragoș Alexandru Muşoiu and Reacting Chernobyl, based on texts b

Abstract

I believe that, nowadays, too little is written about assuming the experimental condition of a performance, in a self-standing niche of Romanian theatre, whether subsidised or independent. Because, we must admit, the last two or three seasons have shown a healthy (though still fragile) interconnection, both from the viewpoint of aesthetics and of the programme, between the two types of theatrical productions, as much as independent directors and even entire teams were invited to develop their personal projects on state theatres’ (mostly studio, but not only) stages, without cutting back on their own long-term programmes. For understandable economic reasons, a reverse movement is more difficult, at least for now, but I’m sure that the osmosis process will continue...