Între ideologie și identitate culturală (Piese cu tematică istorică la Teatrul de Stat din Sfântu Gheorghe, în anii 1960-1970)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46522/CT.2023.02.05Keywords:
theatre, communism, ideology, identity, cultural policyAbstract
Between Ideology and Cultural Identity (Plays with Historical Themes at the State Theater in Sfântu Gheorghe, in the 1960s and 1970s
In the context of political liberalization in the 1960s, Hungarians in Romania, taking advantage of new cultural opportunities, quickly adapted to the new conditions. After the administrative reform, following cultural concessions, a phenomenon similar to that in Romania of reinventing and reproducing the historical past took place in Hungarian cultural institutions. Theatre played an important role in this cultural phenomenon. The State Theatre of Sfântu Gheorghe participated very actively in all the cultural initiatives to promote ethnocultural identity and local values initiated by the new political and cultural elite in Covasna County, founded in 1968. The main aim was therefore to rediscover, care for and promote the local historical past (Transylvanian and Szekler) in the context of the cultural policy of the time and the communist ideology through historical plays. The success, or lack thereof, of these plays should be sought in this context rather than in their literary and dramatic value. The theatre of Sfântu Gheorghe, in search of new forms after 1968, took up, accepted these plays, these historical themes, managed to slip them through the institutions of censorship and put them on stage. These plays are characterized by a lack of professional maturity, by ideological clichés. They are telling examples of how and to what extent the local Hungarian intelligentsia tried and failed to adapt to the new cultural conditions in the country, in these political-ideological conditions, how it tried to find Hungarian cultural alternatives and to what extent it managed to process and stage these themes.
References
***, Congresul al IX-lea al PCR, 19-14 iulie 1965, București, Editura Politică, 1965, p. 92.
Bottoni, Stefano, Transilvania roșie. Comunismul român și problema națională 1944-1965, Cluj-Napoca, Editura ISPMN, 2010.
Dávid László, „Székelyföldi műemlékek“ („Monumente în Ținutul Secuiesc“), Korunk, nr. 4, 1969, pp. 543-547.
Grancea, Mihaela: „Filmul românesc în procesul construcției «națiunii socialiste»: 1965-1989“, Romanian Political Science Review, nr. 3, vol. VI, 2006, pp. 684-709.
Kötő József, „Politikum és esztétikum. Színház a totalitarizmus markában (1945-1989)“ („Politicul și estetica. Teatrul în mâinile totalitarismului“), în Lengyel György (coord.), Színház és diktatúra a 20. században (Teatru și dictatură), Budapesta, CorvinaOSZMI, 2011, pp. 278-301.
Nagy Mihály Zoltán, Olti Ágoston, Érdekképviselet vagy pártpolitika?, Miercurea Ciuc, Editura Pro-Print, 2009.
Novák Csaba Zoltán, Tóth Bartos András, Kelemen Kálmán, Újjászületés. Háromszékből Kovászna (Renaștere. Covasna din Trei Scaune), Miercurea Ciuc, Editura Pro-Print, 2013.
Novák Csaba Zoltán, Epoca de aur? Ceaușescu și maghiarii, Târgoviște, Editura Cetatea de Scaun, 2020.
Novák Csaba Zoltán, „Considerații privind cadrul politic și ideologic în primul deceniu al regimului Ceaușescu din perspectiva vieții teatrale maghiare“, Cercetări teatrale, nr. 2, 2020, pp. 46-47.