The one-winged man
The One-Winged Man, starts out as a realist play, with a subject vaguely inspired by the French Resistance, but step by step, the realistic background fades away and everything takes on an abstract, poetic and philosophical air. In Nazi-occupied France, a baby is born with one wing, half man, half bird. He will be pursued by the authorities to be turned into a national symbol of Jeanne d'Arc, but will grow old in a group of hens, and the wing, the gorgeous white wing, takes on the repulsive smell of a chicken coop
Watchman Don't Be a Snail vs. Guffy Country
It's a Guffy country from which the infantile packaging has been removed. If Guffy's Land seemed like a children's fairy tale, being, at heart, not just a political parable but a philosophical one, Seeker Don't Be a Snail is completely devoid of cutesy accoutrements. That meeting of the Independent Blind Association has a well-crafted evil presence, the play more appealing as a state of danger than as a meaningful narrative. The avenues of immediate access to actuality, so generous in Guffy land, are closed here, and the outlook, pessimistic. The serving boy replaces Robderouă, but he will not discover the spell of the colours with Princess Iola but will be murdered. The blind men here are pretending, those in Gufi's land are happy.
About feeling springy when we step over corpses
"At the time I was discovering Ionesco's plays in a communist Romania where the everyday absurd rivalled the theatre of the absurd, I found in them, in fact, an expression of absolute freedom and an extremely effective weapon in the fight against oppression, stupidity and ideological dogmatism. After reading Ionesco's plays I was never afraid of anything in my life. More than any philosophical system or book of wisdom, it was Ionesco who helped me to understand man and his contradictions, the disfigurements of the human soul, as well as life and the world in general." -Matei Visniec
The Time Keeper
The adventure of Liviu Dorneanu, who sold two weeks of his life without knowing they were his last, gives the impression of an epic. A bizarre Galbinski invites him to witness "a shower of stars", tantamount to a collapse of time - because stars are great reservoirs of time. Dorneanu unwittingly becomes involved in the magical atmosphere Galbinski creates, moreover, he is convinced that a falling star is a message that burns out before it reaches its recipient. He senses a message, which is why his life will take a strange turn and his acts will be those of a possessed person. He experiences simultaneous actions and magical experiences, so one might say he begins to die. For a moment only, as long as the play lives simultaneously in both worlds. But Dorneanu doesn't die, he is contacted by a time-buying firm, an agency ostensibly run by a certain Helffer, in reality, an absolute conspiracy whose ultimate goal is passage to the afterlife
Women as a battlefield
Women as a Battlefield is inspired by the horrors faced by Bosnian women during the war in Yugoslavia. Kate, a specialist in obsessional neurosis and psychoanalytic treatment, studies interethnic violence, nationalism from a Freudian perspective, the mechanisms by which women were weaponized in Balkan patriarchal society, and the process of selling a woman in this situation: The journalist in me was beginning to lose confidence in the meaning of the job he was doing, and that's when the writer in me stepped in with the idea of writing a play about modern barbarism, about the toxicity of nationalistic impulses, about the mechanism by which normal people turn overnight into beasts.
