Theatre for Young Audience. A Romanian Cultural Landscape

Abstract

Offering an overview of the Romanian theatre for children and teenagers, the present paper is mapping the existing public or private institutions and theatre companies that function in Romania. The main points of interest presented and discussed are: the question of the audience (age, social milieu, the means this young audience comes or is brought to the theatre, the marketing strategies elaborated by the companies); the theatre men and women (stage directors, set designers, puppeteers and playwrights or dramaturges) specialized in performances for youngsters, as well as the tendency of well-known artists to try their hand in this specific direction; the important number of festivals and theatrical encounters that appeared after the communist period and in the last years, revealing an increasing interest for this kind of theatre, coming from the professional artistic field as well as from the young and adult Romanian audience.