"Ion Luca Caragiale" National Theatre
Modernist national playhouse fronted by a bronze cart crowded with comic stage characters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Ion Luca Caragiale National Theatre in Bucharest follows the playwright whose name is over the door, Romania's great comic dramatist, through the years when his own country kept turning on him. It touches his single season running the theatre in its old house on Calea Victoriei, a cold reception from the Romanian Academy, and a young journalist from a rival poet's circle who went to print with a charge about his tragedy Năpasta. Stand by the bronze cart of figures out front on University Square while you listen.
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