Subversive Stages : : Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria / / Ileana Alexandra Orlich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Orlich, Ileana Alexandra,
• MitwirkendeR: Komporaly, Josefina,; Komporaly, Jozefina,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Pl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Foreword. The Ghosts of History Redux: Intertextuality, Rewriting, Adaptation
• Introduction
• Part 1 THE RUSSIAN AND FRENCH MASTERS
• I. The Political Ghosts and Ideological Phantasms of Nic Ularu’s The Cherry Orchard, A Sequel
• II. Adapting Molière and Jules Verne to Soviet Censorship: The Alchemical Politics of Bulgakov’s A Cabal of Hypocrites and The Crimson Island
• III. György Spiró’s The Impostor: Rethinking Molière’s Tartuffe for Communist Hungary
• Part 2 SHAKESPEARE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
• IV. Stalinist “Traitors” and “Saboteurs”: Matéi Vișniec’s Richard III Will Not Take Place or Scenes from the Life of Meyerhold
• V. Staging Hamlet as Political No Exit in Géza Bereményi’s Halmi
• VI. Nedyalko Yordanov’s The Murder of Gonzago: Reading Bulgaria’s Communist Political Culture through Shakespeare’s Hamlet
• Part 3 INSERTING GOD INTO POLITICS
• VII. Specters of State Power, History, and Politics of the Stage: Vlad Zografi’s Peter or The Sun Spots
• VIII. Inserting God into the Communist Personality Cult: Stefan Tsanev’s The Other Death of Joan of Arc
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index