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How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients
by Matei Vişniec
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients
by Matei Vişniec
Director:
Florin Fătulescu
Music:
Rodica Fătulescu
Costumes:
Liliana Cenean
Decor:
Puiu Antemir
Literary Secretary:
Anita Neagu
Premiere: 29.09.2007
Last performance: 12.04.2009
Duration: 1 h 40 min / Pause: No
A bitter comedy about the frenzy of a totalitarian society. A play dealing with the failed experiment of "the best of all possible worlds" - communism - as reflected by the metaphor of a hospital for the mentally ill, a place where the mad people are free and the normal people are losing their minds.
A virulent satire about the ideological oppression and the absurdity of the notion of "utopia". A play by Matei Vişniec, one of the most renowned contemporary Romanian playwrights.
