Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The play Lexiconul amar proposes an oblique thematic connection between a well-known tale and an innovative and stimulating staging that frames the strands of the mythical characters and storyline. The alternative artistic vision of the play incorporates the separation of time and space, of youth and old age, of grotesque female monsters and enchanting realms inhabited by fair maidens, and of the dramatic dialogue and an elaborate linguistic register. The lexicon brings into relief the story’s mystical content as well as the apprehension of an inner fantastic world that parallels the real and the immediate seen as counterpoints to the tale. Skillfully interwoven, vision and reality ballance against each other with undercutting irony that results in spontaneous stage combustion enriched by Gothic paraphernalia, riddles, apparitions, the inadequacy of language to express a deeper reality and abrupt switches to hypochritical current verbosity.
Source: Romanian Studies Today
DOI: 10.62229/rst/8.1/14
Author: Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4405580240