Liviu Ciulei – WANTED At Home and Abroad. Florica Ichim, Anca Mocanu (eds.), “Liviu Ciulei acasă și-n lume [Liviu Ciulei Home and Abroad”], vol. I-III, Bucharest: Fundația Culturală “Camil Petrescu”, Revista “Teatrul azi”, 2016

Abstract

The release of the trilogy Liviu Ciulei acasă și-n lume was a veritable editorial and theatrical event in the Romanian cultural environment. The book was put together by Florica Ichim and Anca Mocanu (Bucharest, Fundația Culturală „Camil Petrescu”, Revista „Teatrul azi”). A multi-talented artist and an encyclopaedic personality, Liviu Ciulei (1923-2011) was an actor, architect, stage-designer, screenwriter, teacher and theatre theorist, but he is best known for his work as a theatre and movie director. He was a pioneer of theatre in Romania during the ‘70s and ‘80s, until he went into exile because of the increasingly severe censorship of art during communism. Occasionally, he would go back to Romania after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime in 1989 and direct several plays at the “Bulandra” Theatre in Bucharest – in which he had a special interest.