Identități bricolate – identități șterse: „supraviețuiri” în teatrul lui Matei Vișniec și al lui Vlad Zografi

From individual to cultural representations present in their plays, Matei Vișniec and Vlad Zografi reframe stereotypes or decontextualise meanings. On one hand, they enter into the territory of a burlesque history, and on the other hand, they explore the area of parody and livresque. This paper depicts several hypostases of patchworked, simulated identities in plays such as Regele și cadavrul (The King and the Corpse), or the characters’ attempts to “survive” in Cu sufletul în roabă (With the Soul in the Wheelbarrow) or Așteptați să se mai potolească această caniculă (Wait for the Heat to die down). The “decomposition” is not only pursued at the level of the individual, as both authors resort to playing with levels or textual constructions in Crima din strada Uranus (Murder on Uranus Street), Atelier (Workshop), Spectatorul condamnat la moarte (The Spectator Condemned to Death). The mirrors and reflections, but also the identity gaps in the relationship between the West and the East will be followed in plays such as Petru sau Petele din soare (Peter or the Sun Spots), Viitorul e maculatură (The Future is Rubbish) and Occident Express.