Balkan Plots: New Plays from Central and Eastern Europe : The Body of a Woman As a Battlefield in the Bosnian War/Cordon/When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle.../Soap o: 1 - Brossura

Visniec, Matei; Romcevic, Nebojsa; Valean, Andreea

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ISBN 10: 0953675734 ISBN 13: 9780953675739

Casa editrice: Aurora Metro Pubns, 2000

Riassunto

Includes: The Body of a Woman by Matei Visniec, Cordon by Nebojsa Romcevic, When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle... by Andreea Valean, and Soap Opera by Gyorgy Spiro.

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Recensione:

Incontestably one of the best, the most powerful plays of the Avignon Festival. (re: The Body of a Woman) --La Gazette Provencale

It is rare on a British stage to find a play dealing with contemporary Europe. But this work by Matei Visniec, the exiled Romanian writer, is an impassioned two-hander that encompasses the Bosnian war, victimised women, Balkan man and the Freudian nature of resurgent nationalism. Even if you can sense Visniec ticking off his list of chosen topics, you emerge both intellectually informed and emotionally moved. Visniec's central idea, however, is the one contained in his title: that, in the Balkans, rape is a form of military strategy and that resurgent nationalism is often a form of infantile sadism. Given the horror-stories that came out of Bosnia, it is a perfectly tenable thesis. My only cavil is that Visniec announces it journalistically and then proceeds to illustrate it dramatically. It starts as a thesis-play but it ends by showing theatre's rare capacity to give emotional reality to reported fact. (re: The Body of a Woman) -- --Michael Billington, The Guardian

'I m not politically correct,' opines the artistic director of Q Art Theatre, currently presenting Soap Opera, by Hungarian Gyorgy Spiro at the DuMaurier theatre in the Monument-National. 'But the first time I saw this play, even I was kind of, You can t do that. You can t say that.' Zsigovics is explaining that his countryman's play is likely to be controversial, 'not because of anything I m doing with it, but just because it was controversial wherever they showed it.' The play, in an English translation by Andrew Bock, is about the concept of monetary 'reparations' for victims of the Holocaust and their families. A woman is approached and told she is entitled to a piece of the pie because her name appears on a list. Her immediate response: how come they' re still keeping lists of Jews? Soap Opera asks whether there can ever be reparation for such suffering and whether these schemes aren t just a way for people to assuage their guilty consciences. It presents a debate, according to Zsigovics, but doesn t take sides. Nevertheless, this is a sensitive topic, and not just within the Jewish community. There have been calls for reparations to numerous groups, including native peoples, the descendants of American slaves and victims of the atomic bomb... -- --The Mirror - Theatre this week

L'autore:

Matei Visniec is Romania's most performed playwright after Ionesco. Andrea Vallean is one of the most promising female playwrights of the younger generation. Gyorgy Spiro is one of the most acclaimed Hungarian playwrights to be performed internationally. Nebojsa Romcevic had his work banned under Milosovic. His play 'Cordon' was made into a film that won the 2003 Montreal film festival.

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• Editore: Aurora Metro Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0953675734
• ISBN 13: 9780953675739
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 188