BOTTOM-DRAWER DRAMA. VICTOR CILINCĂ
BOTTOM-DRAWER DRAMA. VICTOR CILINCĂ

Summary/Abstract: In the post December 1989 Romanian cultural space, the critical views on thewritings secretly created and/ or circulated during the communist regime haveconstantly emphasised their limited amount. This reference also includes the socalledbottom-drawer drama, which was, more often than not, considered downrightnonexistent as a literary category.The present paper aims at succinctly outlining the critical reception of this “creativereality”, and at “recording the statements” of playwrights such as Horia Gârbea andVictor Cilincă, whose confessions seem to subvert such considerations, but also atdiscussing the “bottom-drawer drama” Polonius. Written in 1983 and published andstaged at the Dramatic Theatre of Galati in 1999, the dramatic text by Victor Cilincăis inscribed in a series of similar plays, yet unpublished, such as Revoluția pisicilor[Cats’ Revolution], Căsătorie în stil latin [A Latin-type Wedding],Dispariția doamnei Warren [Mrs Warren’s Vanishing], etc.The approach to Hamlet’s “rewriting” attempts to underline the connection betweenthe socio-political context and the birth and fate of the dramatic text, with theirstrong implications over the creator’s condition

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