Maria Vodă Căpușan – Critica de teatru care refuză cronica de spectacol
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Maria Vodă Căpușan – Theatre Criticism Without Theatre Reviewing
Abstract: Maria Vodă Căpușan was a Romanian scholar specializing in French contemporary literature who worked all her life at Babes-Bolyai University Cluj. Between 1980-1990 she held the office of Head of French Department of BBU Cluj, but also that of Secretary of the Communist Party at Universities’ Center Cluj – an important political position, considering that the Center was the nucleus of ideological control for all the academic institutions of Cluj County. Furthermore, she was an original and peculiar theatre critic: she systematically refused to review theatre performances, offering instead a large horizon of research, articles and books dedicated to theatre theory, comparative studies, and the history of drama. Remarkably, nothing of this professional heritage is tainted by her political activities, even though the press archives reveal many of her occasional propagandistic/opportunistic contributions – in other words, she tried to keep her two social roles completely separate. This paper, a fragment of a larger collection of case studies dedicated to Romanian female theatre critics, tries to offer a fresh image of Maria Vodă Căpușan’s writings in the complex political, intellectual, and theatrical context of the last decades of the Romanian socialist era.
Keywords: 20th century theatre, theatre theory, drama, theatre criticism, Maria Vodă Căpușan
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Acknowledgment: This paper is a sample of the ARPAS and UBB Cluj Project of research & creation FEM 100, financed by AFCN 2024.
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