SubPământ de Mihaela Michailov. Efectele postindustrializării în societatea românească de tranziție

Abstract

Mihaela Michailov, playwright and theatre critic, develops through her artistic projects, plays and theatre shows that have as their main focus the issues of romanian contemporary society (rasism, discrimination, postindustrialization and other issues related to disadvantaged social categories) issues that seem to be related to the indiference of the government and the authorities that do not take responsability for them, as the playwright observes in her plays. The play SubPământ was developed starting from a series of workshops and interviews with real characters who live in the cities of Valea Jiului (miners,their wives and their children, mine gatekeepers, or people who live of stealing from the mins)- characters who were deeply affected by the changes that came with the Romanian Revolution. The play looks at the life, economic and professional situation of miners in the postindustrial era and discovers a strongly disadvantaged social category whose problems are ignored and no one responsable is trying to find any solution. Using „verbatim” as a way of creation, the actors of the show speak the exact words of the real characters . The play „SubPământ” chatches a glimpse of a world in which involution, uprooting, failure and political manipulation build an image of a world on the brink of dezaster.