“SARS CoV2 has turned our lives upside down, keeping us at home and isolating us physically. In 2020, in just a few months, the theatre became unrecognizable. The provisional suspension of direct contacts, another type of collaboration in the composition process, also distanced and transferred online, a tendency towards texts open to a cinematographic approach, and reliance on the participative viewer[JCB1] : these roughly define the spirit of Romanian theatre in time of pandemic.

“This volume is the result of attempts at an analytical characterization of the explorations pursued by artists in the circumstances of this current scourge and of their aesthetic incidences. The composite structure, the range of sub-themes and perspectives, arises from the shared wish of the contributors to capture in as relevant a way as possible the crumbling of paradigms. Even if in the future new challenges will continue to arise, recording by way of theoretical investigation of events in progress is a form of archiving assumed by this volume.” (Oltița Cîntec)