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A diverse, potent collection of play texts that reveal some of the more complex and lesser-known facets of Romanian theatre culture and recent history ... These playwrights have loud, interesting voices. Now that their intense, funny, bleak and thoughtful plays are accessible to Anglophone theatre makers, readers and audiences - in a series of sharp, versatile translations that range in tone and register from furiously hard-nosed to softly lyrical - I hope they are heard. * European Literature Network: Riveting Reviews * Acts as a manifesto volume of sorts - it offers various forms of dramatic expression hailing from Romania and admirably includes texts by ethnic Hungarian and Roma authors, two minorities that have played and continue to play an important role in local history ... This volume is an important work of reference for anyone interested in theatre arts, and those studying contemporary performance will do well if they rely on this impressive publication. * BookHub Romania (Bloomsbury Translation) * The plays offer an impressive thematic and formal range, including verse and chorus-based works, and works that speak to their immediate contexts, as well as to broader human experiences ... This is accomplished and important work. It will appeal to practitioners and scholars of theatre, and it will enrich courses on dramaturgy, directing, theatre translation and European theatre and culture. * Theatre Research International * Not only a literary, cultural, and critical tour de force, but also a collection in which every single piece - every single page really - represents an exquisite instance of playwriting in splendid English translation ... An irresistible, must-have page-turner. * Asymptote Journal *

A diverse, potent collection of play texts that reveal some of the more complex and lesser-known facets of Romanian theatre culture and recent history ... These playwrights have loud, interesting voices. Now that their intense, funny, bleak and thoughtful plays are accessible to Anglophone theatre makers, readers and audiences - in a series of sharp, versatile translations that range in tone and register from furiously hard-nosed to softly lyrical - I hope they are heard. * European Literature Network: Riveting Reviews *

A diverse, potent collection of play texts that reveal some of the more complex and lesser-known facets of Romanian theatre culture and recent history ... These playwrights have loud, interesting voices. Now that their intense, funny, bleak and thoughtful plays are accessible to Anglophone theatre makers, readers and audiences - in a series of sharp, versatile translations that range in tone and register from furiously hard-nosed to softly lyrical - I hope they are heard. * European Literature Network: Riveting Reviews * Acts as a manifesto volume of sorts - it offers various forms of dramatic expression hailing from Romania and admirably includes texts by ethnic Hungarian and Roma authors, two minorities that have played and continue to play an important role in local history ... This volume is an important work of reference for anyone interested in theatre arts, and those studying contemporary performance will do well if they rely on this impressive publication. * BookHub Romania (Bloomsbury Translation) *

A diverse, potent collection of play texts that reveal some of the more complex and lesser-known facets of Romanian theatre culture and recent history ... These playwrights have loud, interesting voices. Now that their intense, funny, bleak and thoughtful plays are accessible to Anglophone theatre makers, readers and audiences - in a series of sharp, versatile translations that range in tone and register from furiously hard-nosed to softly lyrical - I hope they are heard. * European Literature Network: Riveting Reviews * Acts as a manifesto volume of sorts - it offers various forms of dramatic expression hailing from Romania and admirably includes texts by ethnic Hungarian and Roma authors, two minorities that have played and continue to play an important role in local history ... This volume is an important work of reference for anyone interested in theatre arts, and those studying contemporary performance will do well if they rely on this impressive publication. * BookHub Romania (Bloomsbury Translation) * Not only a literary, cultural, and critical tour de force, but also a collection in which every single piece - every single page really - represents an exquisite instance of playwriting in splendid English translation ... An irresistible, must-have page-turner. * Asymptote Journal *

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Jozefina Komporaly is a London-based academic and translator. She has published two monographs on contemporary theatre, and edited and co-translated the drama anthologies How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays (2015) and András Visky’s Barrack Dramaturgy (2017). She has published translations in Words without Borders, Asymptote, World Literature Today, and had work staged by Foreign Affairs and Theater Y Chicago.

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