Theater Criticism in Search of Lost Identity. Stories of Professionalization. Miruna Runcan, “Teatrul în diorame. Discursul criticii teatrale în comunism. Fluctuantul dezgheț 1956-1964 [Theater in dioramas. The discourse of theater criticism in the communist era. The fluctuant thaw 1956-1964]” (București: Tracus Arte, 2019)

Abstract

Miruna Runcan's book, Teatrul în diorame. Discursul criticii teatrale în comunism, subtitled Fluctuantul dezgheț 1956-1964, joins the recent attempts to explore, from a rhetorical and ideological perspective, the discourses of Romanian criticism that coagulated during the communist decades. What distinguishes this volume, however, from similar endeavors, most focused on literary criticism, is precisely its focus on theatrical criticism, in the wake of an older preoccupation of the author both with regard to the particularities of the critical phenomenon in the performing arts in our country (materialized in the volume Critica de teatru: încotro?), as well as facing the evolution of the theater during the communist period (see Teatralizare și reteatralizare în România).