Personality Transfer

Antologia cuprinde sase piese de referinta pentru dramaturgia contemporana din Romania, traduse in limba engleza: Gluga pe ochi de Iosif Naghiu, Transfer de personalitate de Dumitru Solomon, Acesti ingeri tristi de D. R. Popescu, Iona de Marin Sorescu, Gertrude de Radu F. Alexandru si Istoria comunismului povestita pentru bolnavii mintal de Matei Visniec. Selectia, introducerea si notele bio-bibliografice au fost realizate de criticul de teatru Alice Georgescu. Traducerile sunt semnate de Irina Dubsky (The Hood over the Eyes, Personality Transfer, These Sad Angels, Jonah), Adrian G. Sahlean (Gertrude), Jeremy Lawrence si Catherine Popescu (How To Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients).„The absurd that defines (in a tragic or comic key, but most often in a tragi-comic one) the relationship between the individual and the others, be they society and its institutions (the legal system, the police, the medical establishment and so on), family members and acquintances, or even God Himself, stands out as the dominant feature of these dramatic writings, both in vision and expression.”– Alice Georgescu