Нова румънска драма в България
Romanian new drama in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the presence of Romanian new drama in Bulgaria. To this end it specifies the meaning of the term ‘Romanian new drama’ presenting its advent and development ever since 2002 when the DramAcum (Drama Now) movement was launched in Bucharest by young playwrights and directors as a platform for new Romanian playwriting. Over the years, the platform has established itself as a major space for salient and inventive plays in various aesthetics, invariably and closely scrutinising the problems and dilemmas of the contemporary society and young people. Outlining the profile of the Romanian new drama, the paper proceeds with specifying how and how much it is present in and familiar to Bulgaria’s cultural domain. Over the last decade, Bulgarian theatre companies and audiences got widely and profoundly familiarised with the Romanian new drama due mostly to the activities of 36 monkeys Organization for Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture, which launched its ProText project in 2007. The initiative was meant to mount site-specific new European and Bulgarian theatre in unconventional environments. Two of the project’s editions, in 2009 and 2015, were entirely devoted to the Romanian new drama and implemented in close cooperation with DramAcum. The outcome was staging two plays and publishing a collection of a total of 25 Romanian drama texts by over 15 authors. These major displays of interest in the Romania new drama and its reception by contemporary Bulgarian theatre are analysed. The paper presents also the performance read-throughs of two works by Gianina Cărbunariu: The Day After Tomorrow, the Day Before Yesterday (2009), and Mihaela, the Tiger of Our Town (2015), and two collections of works by young playwrights, published by Panorama+: New Romanian Drama and The Green Cat. Contemporary Romanian Drama.

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