Ana-Magdalena Petraru1; 1 Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
Discussion
This paper will discuss the recent war in Ukraine as reflected in the disrupting events recorded by the media and used as material by emerging playwrights. We refer to Erica Moldovan’s Manicura rosie/ Red Manicure which does not account for the conflict from a military or political perspective but grasps the collision between two different human lives separated by age, gender, education and faith, the only characters in the play. The work was inspired by a 2022 article in which the dead body of a woman named Iryna lied unidentified on the streets of Bucha without anyone claiming it and which was only identified after 30 days due to her painted nails by her manicurist based on a picture seen on the internet.
