Train de vie. Il miraggio proibito dell’Occidente nel teatro di Matei Vișniec

Abstract

"The subversive spirit of Matei Vișniec moves around the land of the forbidden and the censored. In Occidental Express (2009) the revolutionary idea takes the shape of a train of hope, heading to Paris, a heavenly mirage for migrants blinded by the lights on the horizon. Starting from the analysis of this sequence of tableaux vivants, this paper aims to reflect on the relationships that binds Utopia to postdramatic writing methods. Utopia is to be understood as a possibility for the intellectual to defeat the power relationships linking the consumerist West and the austerity of the communist regime, but also as a check suffered by the intellectual himself when he tries to overstep the laws of the system."