<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The raw material of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest was extracted from the 1989 Revolution in Romania and chiselled to the essence. The play bridges reality and fiction through a cross-cultural perspective, which implies documentation, collaborative work and emotional detachment. The British playwright used innovative devices and adapted pictorial techniques to turn the Romanian Revolution into a work of art, to preserve what she considered particular and also connect the event to several of the cultural symbols Romania is associated with.</p></abstract>

The raw material of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest was extracted from the 1989 Revolution in Romania and chiselled to the essence. The play bridges reality and fiction through a cross-cultural perspective, which implies documentation, collaborative work and emotional detachment. The British playwright used innovative devices and adapted pictorial techniques to turn the Romanian Revolution into a work of art, to preserve what she considered particular and also connect the event to several of the cultural symbols Romania is associated with.

A Revolution for the Stage – Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The raw material of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest was extracted from the 1989 Revolution in Romania and chiselled to the essence. The play bridges reality and...

A Revolution for the Stage – Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0001

Keywords
British drama, cross-cultural perspective, dramatic devices, reality and fiction

© 2019 Florentina Anghel, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A Revolution for the Stage – Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0001

KeywordsBritish drama, cross-cultural perspective, dramatic devices, reality and fiction

© 2019 Florentina Anghel, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
British drama, cross-cultural perspective, dramatic devices, reality and fiction