Mad Forest
1990 play by Caryl Churchill / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mad Forest: A Play from Romania is a play by English playwright Caryl Churchill. It was developed in 1990 through collaboration with students from Romania. The three acts occur, respectively, shortly before, during, and shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. The play is mostly written in English, but has several passages in Romanian, including having the cast sing Romania's national anthem, "Deşteaptă-te, române!".
The title alludes to a passage in A Concise History of Romania by Andrei Oţetea and Andrew MacKenzie that says that Bucharest stands on land that used to be an impenetrable forest "impenetrable by the foreigner who did not know the paths", known to "the horsemen of the steppe" as "Teleorman — Mad Forest" (see Codrii Vlăsiei).[1]