Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill

On Christmas Day 1989 Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, the communist dictators who had transformed Romania into a police state, were ousted and executed in front of a national television audience. On the heels of the infamous Romanian Revolution in 1989, Caryl Churchill, a prolific British playwright well known for her highly satirical, political works such as Cloud 9, Top Girls, and The Skrikrer, brought a group of students from the London School of Drama with her to Bucharest. Mad Forest was the result, receiving its world premiere at Bucharest's National Theatre in 1990.

Combining the text of actual interviews telling the blow-by-blow story of the revolution, and the stories of two families, connected by the wedding engagements of their children, in the pre-and post-revolution days, Mad Forest is an incisive portrait of a society in turmoil.

Performances of Mad Forest are August 20-September 5, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 7:00 at Actors Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston conveniently located on the MBTA, one half block from the Boylston Station on the Green Line and Chinatown/Essex Station on the Orange Line. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Tickets can be purchased by calling (617) 887-2336.

Relevant Links

Romanian Revolution
Romania
Calvin Theatre: Mad Forest, A Romanian Chronology
Mad Forest notes from Wake Forest University

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