The narrator, who begins by losing everything she possesses, and thereafter staggers from one disaster to another, seems to enact the helplessness of ordinary Romanians not long after the overthrow of the brutal regime of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Caryl Churchill
The play, developed in collaboration with a student group from the Central School of Speech and Drama
in London, concerns the overthow of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
108, 113
Travel
Dervla Murphy
DM
left for Romania in the euphoria that followed the fall of its dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
, feeling impatient to share in Romania's happiness.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Murray, 1992.
xiv-xv
Timeline
April 1989: The European Economic Community finally suspended...
Building item
April 1989
The European Economic Community
finally suspended trade relations with Elena
and Nicolae Ceausescu
' Romania on account of its oppressive social and gender policies.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
xiii-xiv
Christmas Day 1989: In Romania, Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu,...
National or international item
Christmas Day 1989
In Romania, Elena
and Nicolae Ceausescu
, whose regime was hideously oppressive in social policies, particularly those of gender, were shot by army firing squad after being removed from office by popular uprising.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
