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The constant rewriting of mystifying utopias that belong to totalitarian era still has, today, an ethically and militant-politically role, to a certain extent expiatory, equally for historians, anthropologists, history-psychologists, specialists in imagology, sociologists and artists. The estrangement, distantiation, i.e. Verfremdungseffekt, in a post Brechtian sense, as well as the demystification done by current playwriting is an aesthetic strategy. One that bears with intended extra-aesthetic effects. A goal is that of redefining our ethnical, political and social identity, as reflected in the public conscience. The present essay advances several hypotheses on the Romanian “political” theatre and its alienation effect, taking under analytical scrutiny a few plays written after 1989 by some of the most important contemporary and present-day Romanian dramatists.

Keywords: political theatre, contemporary playwriting, totalitarism