by Mihaela MICHAILOV Each time I write an article dedicated to the theatre for children and teenagers, I inevitably ask myself a few questions: whose is the theatre addressing the youths? does it take into consideration the structural changes of childhood? does it know its children and teens? how aware is this theatre of the fundamental role it could take in forming the children and teens, in the spirit of attachment to emancipatory, liberating stories? how eager is this theatre to diversify the children’s experiential horizon, to deconstruct the stereotypes they borrow, to show them the possibility of change they…

Dinu Gutu A couple of months ago, Sleaford Mods front man Jason Williamson announced he was no longer allowed to vote in the UK Labor leadership election, after he called Dan Jarvis, one of the candidates for Parliament, a “posing cunt” in a public post. Williamson sings about the condition of the working classes and social inequality in England. He joined Labor to support Jeremy Corbyn. He remained involved in politics from the stage and not from any party. This is why I chose to write from a political perspective about the Sleaford Mods’ latest album, Key Markets. The recipe…

Interview with David Schwartz Independent Moldova. Erratum By: Ion Borș, David Schwartz, Dumitru Stegărescu, Doriana Talmazan, Irina Vacarciuc Production: Teatrul-Spălătorie in Kishinev, Moldova The performance constructs a subjective history of the Republic of Moldova which functions as an addendum and a correction of official history. It is the unwritten, untaught history of the perspectives of ordinary people on the political and economic changes. The performance combines the anti-heroic representation of the main public events with the voices of those who never make it into the history textbooks except as statistics. In a context where political leaders, agents of capital and…

On March 24th, 2017, on a Friday night, I was talking to my comrade and we both got angry at the anti-abortion rally which had been authorized by the City Hall, and was to take place the next day, at noon. It’s the first time that the Orthodox Romanian Church (ORC or BOR – the Romanian acronym – as it will be called from now on in this text) itself takes the official initiative to organize an anti-abortion march. Not Provita, not some other “pro life” NGO, but BOR itself, as an institution. This happens right after the Coalition for…