Open AccessA Revolution for the Stage – Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill
Author(s) -
Florentina Anghel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
romanian journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2286-0428
pISSN - 1584-3734
DOI - 10.1515/rjes-2018-0001
Subject(s) - cultural revolution , documentation , germanic languages , perspective (graphical) , romanian , work (physics) , history , event (particle physics) , literature , aesthetics , sociology , art , art history , visual arts , archaeology , philosophy , engineering , computer science , linguistics , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , china , programming language , german
The raw material of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest was extracted from the 1989 Revolution in Romania and chiselled to the essence. The play bridges reality and fiction through a cross-cultural perspective, which implies documentation, collaborative work and emotional detachment. The British playwright used innovative devices and adapted pictorial techniques to turn the Romanian Revolution into a work of art, to preserve what she considered particular and also connect the event to several of the cultural symbols Romania is associated with.