Eladó

Gianina Cărbunariu’s For Sale premiered in 2014, directed by the author within the international project Hunger For Trade, in a co-production between Odeon Theatre from Bucharest and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Similarly to her other performance-texts, For Sale deals with social issues: it presents the conflict of interests between big Romanian and international investors in large-scale agricultural production and small farmers, through cases of shady land acquisitions. At the starting point of the story are interviews and discussions with the inhabitants of villages from the counties Cluj, Ialomița and Călărași, with anthropologists, sociologists and activists. The documentary material is built around a conflict between an anonymous international company, which tricks the selling rights of rented plots and the inhabitants of a village, the rightful landowners. The ending is a ballad-like story, which shows the impact of the conflict at the level of ordinary people. The state or the laws seem unable to protect the farmers exploited by the market strategies of globalized production, but it also looks as if such an action would not even serve their interests. The text was translated to Hungarian by Éva Patkó. Patkó’s Cărbunariu-translation will be published in a volume in 2019.