The beginnings of romanian dramaturgy. Alecsandri and the interactive theater

Vasile Alecsandri is rightly considered the founder of the Romanian dramatic literature. Until the defining moment represented by the great writer, Romanian theatre had a history of almost a century: the plays made up of several scenes are compositions with topics and themes influenced by the ancient dramatic literature, plays from French, and German or Italian literature, adaptations of foreign dramatic texts or even original writings of some Romanian authors, but transposed in Greek. Alecsandri has the exceptional merit to have understood the role modelled by the stage performances in educating the audience, but he also brings the stage representations to another level, intuiting the positive influence of the pedagogy in attracting the people. Thus, Vasile Alecsandri becomes not only a precursor of the aesthetics of ugliness, using Mircea Ghitulescu’s expression, but also a precursor of the interactive theatre through the use of numerous specialities.