The Festival as an Interconnected Network

Authors

  • Mihaela Michailov I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37130/gdr4ek80

Keywords:

theatre festival, network, curator, cultural policy values, advocacy, National Theatre Festival (FNT)

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the relevance of the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Festival and its turning points since 2022. The reflection is meant to contextualize the festival within the landscape of Romanian performing arts, emphasizing the educational dimension, which is viewed as a significant link between theatre and new categories of audiences, thus reshaping the role of theatre nowadays. The text explores the curatorial strategies that connect the selection of shows with a more complex repertoire of cultural gestures that define a festival as a social and cultural network.

Author Biography

  • Mihaela Michailov, I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest

    Mihaela Michailov is a playwright, performing arts critic, coordinator of the Playwriting MA at I.L. Caragiale UNATC Bucharest. She is one of the co-founders of the independent space Replika Centre for Educational Theatre, based in Bucharest. She has written more than 25 plays focused on social and political themes: work force migration, power dynamics in the educational system, marginalization of vulnerable categories in post-socialist times, history of LGBTQ+ communities before and after 1989. Her plays have been translated to Bulgarian, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, German, Greek, Macedonian, Portuguese, Spanish. She has received several national prizes for playwriting.

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Published

2025-09-30

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (2025): The Theatre, Film and New Media Festival Today. Specifics. Role Models. Challenges. Perspectives / A Dialogue Across Centuries: Greek Theatre Then and Now / Film and Theatre Pedagogy

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Michailov, M. (2025). The Festival as an Interconnected Network. CONCEPT, 30(1), 32-40. https://doi.org/10.37130/gdr4ek80