How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays

This is the first English language critical anthology of internationally renowned French-Romanian playwright, Matéi Visniec. The collection, introduced, co-translated and edited by Komporaly, includes seven critically acclaimed plays from the dramatist's over twenty-year career.

About the anthology of plays:

How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients is the central piece of the collection and is a satire of Stalinism that unmasks limitless political power, the fascination with utopias, and the perils of personality cults. Other plays in the anthology include Decomposed Theater, or The Human Trashcan', which explores forms of brainwashing and alienation both in totalitarian and consumerist societies; The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War, which addresses witnessing trauma and the complicated relationship between East and West; and Richard III Will Not Take Place, or Scenes from the Life of Meyerhold; which speaks to political censorship and cultural resistance under totalitarianism, focusing on the social role and responsibility of the artist.

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