Prose and theatre. A stage vision of director Alexandru Cozub

Abstract

Th e interference of the arts, respectively the inter- and trans-disciplinary methods, constitute the perspectives of approaching the show “Frunze de dor”/”Leaves of Longing” based on the novel of the same name by Ion Druță. Th e stage adaptation and direction belong to Alexandru Cozub, artistic director and fi rst director of “Mihai Eminescu” National Th eater from Chisinau. Th e object of research is the relationship between prose and theater, the forms of theatricality in the narrative literary text and the artistic ways of their scenic realization in the show. In this context, the specifi cs of the artistic vision of the prose writer I. Druță, his style and the way of reception and creation of the scenario by the director A. Cozub, as well as the artistic realization of the show, are highlighted. Th e director preserved the consecutiveness of the development of the action, the main scenes from the lyrical Druțian novel, creating a theatrical discourse in which the transition from epic to dramatic is fully manifested, the authorship and orality being, for the most part, transmitted to the choir or to specifi c characters, thus demonstrating that the voice of the author in the epic work acquires a certain dramatic intensity in the stage action