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" Face à Face " in Târgu-Mures
 

Over two years ago the National Theatre in Targu-Mures contacted Entr'Actes about organising the ''Face à Face'' festival. It was an ambitious project based on the idea of reciprocity that was to be composed of two parts - one devoted to contemporary French plays in Rumania, and the other to Rumanian plays in France.
Entr'Actes immediately agreed to participate in the festival - as far as its means would allow - by sending a wide selection of plays, providing financial assistance to have the plays translated and a volume including several of the translations published by Editions Lyra,
Valsul Hazardului, Dramaturgie Franceza Contemporana, as well as covering expenses for the playwrights who went to the festival in Targu-Mures in February 2001.
Entr'Actes was eager to support this programme from the start for two reasons. First, it was a way of responding to the Rumanian theatre world's strong desire for communication. Secondly, it gave contemporary French playwrights access to Rumanian stages, which censors had only allowed to produce traditional works in the years before 1989. The event was also an opportunity to reforge bonds that had linked stages in our two countries before the Second World War.
Entr'Actes also confirmed its policy of diversity through the eclecticism of the plays selected. Finally, its participation was a gesture towards this region of Europe, and the Rumanians' Francophile tradition is in great need of bolstering.
We hope that the Rumanian Theatre Week in France will receive the kind of welcome and coverage that is appropriate for what is at stake here - namely, presenting and seeing plays that French-speaking audiences have yet to discover.

Sabine Bossan, director of Entr'Actes