MONODRAMA ȘI TEATRUL EXPERIMENTAL
MONODRAMA AND EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE

Summary/Abstract: The article highlights that throughout the 20th century and up to the present day, monodrama has evolved into a privileged space for theatrical experimentation. By focusing on a single actor and a single perspective, monodrama becomes an ideal medium for testing the aesthetic limits of theatre and for reinventing the scenic language. Its connection with experimental theatre has its roots in early 20th-century modernism, when artists began to challenge the conventions of realism, and the European avant-garde transformed monodrama into an exploration of interiority. During the interwar and postwar periods, monodrama became a scenic laboratory for the Theatre of the Absurd, for happenings, and for Grotowski’s experiments, in which the actor - alone on stage - becomes both author and object of creation. In the postdramatic era, monodrama is redefined as a hybrid form between fiction and confession, incorporating performative technologies. In Eastern Europe, after 1989, monodrama offered independent artists the freedom to address political and social themes. In the Romanian–Moldovan cultural space, institutions such as the “Coliseum” Arts Center, ART Theatre (Angelina Roșca), FoosBook, and Teatrul-Spălătorie (The Laundry Theater), and in Romania, platforms like Reactor of Creation and Experiment (Cluj-Napoca) and The Replika (Reply) Educational Theatre Center (Bucharest), promote monodrama as an artistic and civic form. Thus, monodrama becomes a performative practice of authenticity and an instrument of ethical engagement.

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