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…
by Irina Costache After Trajan and Decebalus. (From the Pages of Gay History in Romania) By/With: Paul Dunca, Mihaela Michailov Scenography: Andrei Dinu How would one live a “gay lifestyle” in Romania before 1989? What where the meeting points? What were the rituals for socializing and how did the oppressive structures work? What were the outcomes of article 200, whose provisions punished sexual relations between persons of the same sex by 1 to 5 years in prison? How could you be yourself by avoiding your identity, yet still live in a regime of passive acceptance? How did the abuses against…
by Simina Guga Born in the Wrong Place By: Alice Monica Marinescu and David Schwartz Cast: Alexandru Fifea, Katia Pascariu, Mihaela Rădescu, Andrei Șerban, Silviana Vișan Scenography: Adrian Cristea Music: Cătălin Rulea Special thanks: Bashar Al-Kishawi, Margareta Eschenazy, Valentina Ivanov, Ahmad Marwi, Sana Rahimo, Simina Guga The performance Born in the Wrong Place is based on the documentary theater text written by Alice Monica Marinescu and David Schwartz in 2011 using the verbatim method. The text intertwines the life stories of 5 people who have gone through the experience of seeking asylum with fragments from The Guide to Obtaining…
by Stelian Iuga […] Before I turned ten, my folks were already divorced, split the family assets and went their separate ways. They divided, in as civilized a way as they could, the house, the car and whatever cash or personal expenses they might have had. Again, it might seem hard to believe, but the toughest negotiations concerned the truckload of books they had put up all along the inside walls. They eventually reached an agreement: after each of them kept the volumes relating to their fields of activity, mom took the art albums, several foreign authors, the new books…
by Ana-Maria Murg Underground. The Jiu Valley after 1989 By: Mihaela Michailov and David Schwartz Cast: Alice Monica Marinescu, Katia Pascariu, Alexandru Potocean, Andrei Șerban Scenography: Adrian Cristea Music: Bobo Burlăcianu Video and Photo Documentation: Vlad Petri Theater Underground. The Jiu Valley after 1989 is a project of observation and analysis of the everyday life of those communities decisively affected by the social and political changes which began in the early 1990s. The project aims to document the economic situation, life and work of the miners during post-Socialism. Theater Underground is a project of performative reconstruction of the document-stories which…
by Marius Bogdan Tudor […] Interpretation is key to any historical narrative. This is because official records are both sufficient and insufficient. On the one hand, there are always more data in the records than the historian can include in his representation of a certain part of the historical process. The historian must therefore “interpret” the data by deeming some of the information irrelevant for his account and excluding them from the narrative. On the other hand, in his effort to reconstruct a certain historical period “as it was”, the historian cannot exclude from his narrative an account of an…
