A PALIMPSESTUOUS READING OF SILVIU PURCARETE’S 2012 PRODUCTION CĂLĂTORIILE LUI GULLIVER
A PALIMPSESTUOUS READING OF SILVIU PURCARETE’S 2012 PRODUCTION CĂLĂTORIILE LUI GULLIVER

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses Silviu Purcarete’s 2012 theatrical production Călătoriile lui Gulliver/Gulliver’s Travels, staged at the “Radu Stanca” Theatre in Sibiu, Romania, as an appropriation of Swift’s famous satire, which uses fragments from it and from three other of his satirical texts, brought together in a multi-layered palimpsestic intertext. This intertext makes use of the title story as a frame narrative for a series of “scenic exercises” that deconstruct and critically as well as artistically reinterpret the writer’s misanthropic vision of the human condition, pointing to its philosophical relevance in a contemporary context and to the director’s philosophical affinity with the Anglo-Irish satirist.

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