Mai este Ibsen contemporanul nostru?
Is Ibsen Still Contemporaneous with Us?

Summary/Abstract: Our article is born by a notice that turned into a real convulsion, namely that Ibsen’s theatre, in Romania and, especially for the new generations, has arrived into a shadow zone. Enjoying a propagandistic interpretation before the 90s, his texts were translated, published, commented, the television adapted them for the T.V. screen, and the theatrical scene promoted them, too. Today, the phenomenon seems to be reversed. On the one hand, due to the lack of attention from the publishing houses, that have not re-released the texts and neither released new translations, but also from an aridity that defines the Ibsenian dramatic work, an aridity which is hardly exceeded even by the directors themselves, our present scene, with little exceptions, does not succeed to revive the name of the most famous Norwegian dramatist. Therefore we have considered as absolutely necessary to see if Ibsen is so obsolete as it seems to be treated now by our theatre and if we do not remain, in this respect, more deficient next to the European phenomenon which has not give up and, moreover, has found the latent energy from the Ibsenian texts, to speculate upon and to build up bridges across the times and geographical areas.

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