The National Library of the Republic of Moldova is hosting an exhibition entitled “Contemporary Bessarabian Playwrights”. The exhibit marks the path of dramaturgy in the period from the end of the twentieth century up to today and reflects a more complete picture of the literary phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.
The exhibition includes books, serial publications from the National Library’s collections and presents biographies and works of playwrights whose works were dramatized. The publications are systematized into several sections. The first section is “The Golden Generation in Contemporary Bessarabian Dramaturgy”, which includes the works of great spiritual energy of Ion Druță, who was one of the most prolific playwrights, with the plays “The Birds of Our Youth”, “Doina”, “The Big House” etc. and also Dumitru Matcovschi and Aureliu Busuioc with the plays “Tree of Life”, “Lullaby for Grandparents”, “Radu Ștefan, the First and the Last”, “And Under that Sky”. Here are also presented the well-known plays “Minodora”, “Oltea”, “Wine, women and everything you want” by Andrei Strâmbeanu, plays by playwrights Andrei Burac, Gheorghe Calamanciuc, Nicolae Esinencu.
The dramaturgy for children is represented by Iulian Filip with the plays “The Robber’s Treasure and the Orange Hat”, “The Pie Mill”, and Gheorghe Calamanciuc with the collection “Children’s Theatre”.
Another section is entitled “Postmodernist Local Dramaturgy” which brings a breath of fresh air through plays that reflect the Bessarabian reality. The vivid dialogue of contemporary dramaturgy with tradition and innovation stimulated the functioning of heterogeneity. The amalgam of genres and literary species is thus one of the characteristics of these dramatic authors. Here are the postmodernist authors who have anchored themselves in the dramaturgical process, such as: Constantin Cheianu with the anthology “Theater”, which includes the most valuable plays, Val Butnaru with the anthology “How Ecclesiastes talks with Proverbs”, Dumitru Crudu with the plays “People of Nobody”, “Save Boston” and “Bloody Crime from Violets’ Resort”. Irina Nechit’s books “The Project of a Tragedy” and “The Monkey in the Bathroom” by Maria Shlyahtitski and Nicolae Leahu’s “Quartet for a Voice and All Words” are displayed in the “Bald She-Singer” collection. In the same collection, there are presented Nicolae Black’s books “The Violet Reality”, “The Sarmatian Sea Returns and We Return to the Carpathians”, “Lie to Me, Lie to Me...” etc.
The section “Bessarabian dramaturgy in literary criticism in the Republic of Moldova” brings into focus Anatol Moraru’s works about playwrights Ion Druță and Dumitru Matcovschi, Mircea V. Ciobanu’s works about Aureliu Busuioc. According to writer Irina Nechit, their plays caused a shockwave in Bessarabian drama because they highlight the man, not the party, and the man’s struggle to find God. Theatre critic Valentina Tăzlăuanu and writer Irina Nechit sign analysis and criticism articles in the collections ”Dramaturgy of the 20th century” and “Dramaturgy of the 21st century".
The exhibition is open to the public from April 10 until June 10, 2024.
