Edited by Saviana Stanescu and Daniel Gerould Translation editors: Saviana Stanescu and Ruth Margraff Stop The Tempo by Gianina Cărbunariu Romania. Kiss Me! by Bogdan Georgescu Vitamins by Vera Ion Romania 21 by Peca Ştefan Waxing West by Saviana Stanescu
roMANIA after 2000-Five New Romanian Plays represents the first anthology of new Romanian drama published in the United States. It introduces American readers to five important emerging playwrights and their plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. All playwrights in the anthology have already been involved in projects of Romanian-American exchange supported by RCINY's New Drama Program.
The anthology is a joint initiative of the Martin E. Segal Theater Centre, The Graduate Center, CUNY and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, with support from RCI's Translation and Publication Program.
The Romanian anthology launch is in good company: BAiT-Buenos Aires in Translation (also published by MESTC) is the result of a collaboration between four of the most important contemporary playwrights from Buenos Aires, pairing them with four cutting-edge US based directors and their ensembles.
A discussion focusing on the translation process will follow the book launch – with Jean Graham-Jones, Daniel Gerould, Saviana Stanescu and Ruth Margraff.
To convey a sense of lived experience, colored by irony and mockery, but not devoid of compassion, the new generation of Romanian playwrights has created a fresh theatrical language and forged a new relation to a young audience into whose lives it has entered and whose fears, frustrations, and desires it expresses. This is a drama fraught with risks but full of possibilities. – Daniel Gerould, New York
Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
FREE ADMISSION
Building upon their previous visits in the US in the framework of RCINY's New Drama Support Program (artistic director: Saviana Stanescu), the three Romanian playwrights will also present their most recent work in a reading performance at the LARK Development Play Center.
The readings of Gianina Cărbunariu and Peca Ştefan are a result of the Artslink Residencies they have been awarded this year, benefiting also from the support of RCINY. The two playwrights work in collaboration with the LARK Play Development Center, and the Long Wharf Theatre, respectively.
A panel discussion will follow the readings:
"Play Development in Romania and the U.S. – Deepening the Relationship between Artists and Institutions".
Panelists:
Beatrice Basso (Long Wharf Theatre) John Clinton Eisner (LARK Play Development Center) Fritzie Brown (CEC ArtsLink) Oana Radu (Romanian Cultural Institute) & the playwrights
WED, November 7, 7 pm
LARK Play Development Center 939 Eighth Avenue, Suite 301
(between 55th and 56th)
New York, NY 10019
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP: www.larktheatre.org, 212-246-2676 x24
