Imagine the moment when the Ceaușescu regime fell and suddenly people were in charge of their own lives for the first time. There was no road map, nor was it possible to call on l
In the foreword to Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion, a collection of six translations by Jozefina Komporaly, theatre director Faynia Williams points out that ‘[t]he
The festival’s very own author Andreea Scridon observes festival events Elif Shafak and Matei Vișniec are both authors who today enjoy huge critical acclaim around the worl
Find out what happens when two successful writers and public figures meet for the first time: Turkish-British novelist, academic and activist meets the French-Romanian novelist, pl
On the Feeling of Elasticity When Walking Over Dead Bodies is a landmark play by Matéi Vişniec and is representative of the playwright’s major thematic and stylistic concerns.
