Ion Luca Caragiale: de la text la spectacol - ipostaze ale interpretării -
Ion Luca Caragiale: From Text to Show – Hypostases of Performance

Summary/Abstract: Caragiale continuously defends the autonomy of theatre amongst all the other arts and, most of all, he draws a boundary between theatre and writing. His notes are as ordinary today as they were important, at the beginning of the past century, for the status of theatre. Both loved and dismissed, the playwright fiercely defends his territory: “In my opinion, theatre is not a type of art, but an art in itself, as special as literature in general, and poetry in particular, just like any other art – like architecture, for instance” Today, his statement may seem obsolete, outdated, tautological even, as theatre becomes an image and all semiotic bench marks are well-established in this area. However, the period of classicism in literature influences the stage which is still under the tyranny of the text, an almost static stage where the character tells the whole story untruthfully and where the focus falls on the actor (a ham or not) instead of the conjoined theatrical signs, of that artistic synthesis that we were discussing earlier.

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