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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 2 / 2017  
         
  Article:   A THEATRE FOR THE WORKERS, PROTEST AS PERFORMANCE, AND THE POLITICAL POLICE AS (ART) HISTORIAN. A PLEA FOR THE REDISCOVERING OF INTERWAR PERIPHERIES.

Authors:  IULIA POPOVICI.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbdrama.2017.2.04

Published Online: 2017-10-31
Published Print: 2017-10-31

pp. 69-86

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The article argues the importance of a renewed approach of the proletarian and Agit-prop theatre in interwar Romania, as well as forms of political proto-performances, as sociological and political phenomena, more than as aesthetical ones, based especially on the research of primary sources. Due to the specific political context of the period and the harsh censorship, these primary sources are mainly to be represented by the files of the political police of the time, Siguranţa. Taken over by its communist successor, these files were manipulated and reinterpreted according to occasional political needs: any research of the original documents is an archaeological process dealing with both the analyzed activity per se and the politicization of archives during the 1948-1989 period.

Keywords: proletarian theatre; Agit-prop; interwar Romania; political performance; archives; Communist Party of Romania.

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