BOOK REVIEW: RĂDULESCU, DOMNICA. THEATRE OF WAR AND EXILE: TWELVE PLAYWRIGHTS, DIRECTORS AND PERFORMERS FROM EASTERN EUROPE AND ISRAEL. JEFFERSON, NORTH CAROLINA: MCFARLAND & COMPANY, INC., 2015.
BOOK REVIEW: RĂDULESCU, DOMNICA. THEATRE OF WAR AND EXILE: TWELVE PLAYWRIGHTS, DIRECTORS AND PERFORMERS FROM EASTERN EUROPE AND ISRAEL. JEFFERSON, NORTH CAROLINA: MCFARLAND & COMPANY, INC., 2015.

Summary/Abstract: Theatre of War and Exile (hereafter, Theatre) asks the counter-intuitive question not of what theatre says about war and its aftermath (a philosophical and political question) but how theatre says (an aesthetic and performance question). It probes with a surgeon’s scalpel and artist’s flair into the ontological shortcomings of and seeming absurdity in writing about theatre – which comes and goes before one’s eyes like an explosion. Without pretense and with the resilience vested within its post-modern framework, Theatre recaptures both the fragile memories of these manifold traumas and the theatre’s daring aesthetics which create a space-time for these memories to harbor.

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