1. Heroic-comic-satirical epic of communism and the new man

A performance with a performance Rhubarb, actually a dramatic script composed by Aleksandr Dabija based on texts by Aleksandr Monchiu-Sudinski, begins with a scene from a rehearsal. We are somewhere in the 70s, and on the stage of some theater they are rehearsing the upcoming play with Sunset. On the stage, deliberately left bare, without any trace of decor (Andrada Kyriac is responsible for this bareness), we see blond, not white-haired Stephen the Great (Mihai Smarandake), soldiers, boyars, courtiers. But also a director (imitating) with high consciousness, a professional and a revolutionary, who was impeccably played by Antoinette Zacharia. Could this be a caricature of poor Marieta Sadova, who, after the unexpected death of Sike Alexandrescu, took over the management of the play that inaugurated the new building of the Bucharest National Theater in 1973, an event that also formalized the personality cult of Nicolae Ceaușescu?

To the dismay of both the director and the technical director (even the technical director of the play, Dan Yosif, a consummate professional known as such in the theater world, has an amazing artistic presence throughout the act), everything resembles the facts described by Kostake Karaghiali in Moldavian rehearsal.

Actors address each other with the help of appeals Comrade (in 1977-1978, the same Nicolae Ceausescu issued a decree on establishing rules of address between citizens of the SSR), but no one cares about it. Some actors shout, another, played by Caesar Antal, continues to complain that his wife died four days ago and that he was saved from suicide by his great passion for the theater, we also see teachers and masters (Marius Damian).

Unexpectedly, everything stops, the actor César Antal takes a few steps forward and announces that we will see a play with a mysterious name Rhubarbinspired by texts from three volumes (Rhubarb, characters, general biographies) with Monchu-Sudinsky’s signature.

The show was conceived by Aleksandr Dabija, as the author of the dramatic script and director, as a tribute to Aleksandr Monchiu-Sudinski. Whose texts sounded on the stage of the Theater named after Juleshti, Odeum-today, in 1976. In the show called CHARACTERS, written and directed by George Benica. The show, in which the following actors performed: Dorina Lazar, Rodica Mandake, Constantin Cojocaru, George Voicu, Florin Zamfirescu, Ion Angel, Geo Costiniu and George Banica. We are also given some information about Monchu-Sudinsky. The debut volume was even called Rhubarb (a word that means nothing, invented as such by Monchiu-Sudinski) appeared in the fateful year of 1971. Theses from July. It was pulled from bookstores and melted down. It was republished by the publisher some time after 1990.

Friendship with a philosopher oral, an anti-communist, a certain Caesar Mititelu, became fatal for the writer. What became a The goal of security. Tired of the writer’s disobedience and dissent, the party-state bodies and the Security Service offered Monchu-Sudinsky a passport only with an exit visa, where he was supposed to be in Sweden. Here the story stops due to the simple fact that no one knows exactly what happened next to the writer.

The show was created by Alexander Dabija in 12 episodes. Exactly how many songs does the epic have. So I think I have good reason to believe that the writer and director constructed the A scene heroic-comic-satirical epic commune and its constant desire to build a new person. The concept is borrowed from the arsenal of Nazi propaganda.

Where was the man in question? More everywhere. In television reports (Antoineta Zacharia, Elvira Deatsu, Alina Berzunceanu play three reporters), among interviewees (a peasant with a developed conscience, played by Cesar Antal, a worker who is now retired, Marius Damian plays him just perfectly on Vasile Chiresi, and a peasant worker origin – again Antoinette Zacharia – who knows that some names cannot be pronounced out loud) in educational parts and in correctional schools (students or teachers there are played by Matei Arvunescu, respectively Mihai Smarandake), in literary prices (in the fact that with skepticism is called Stefan Petika he reads and hysterically defends his poems by Elvira Deatsu, which we see in several contre-emplois great time), in musical moments. Played live, as in nameless starthe most famous People, Willow and I was not lucky. But and Balalaul seemingly banned in the era of Dolanescu, now sung with pathos by Mihai Smarandache. Read the whole article and comment on Contribuotrs.ro