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Saviana Stanescu @ the Accidental Festival

Saviana Stanescu takes part in the fourth edition of the Accidental Festival this year at the Roundhouse in Camden. The acclaimed Romanian-born playwright will present (R)Evolution or Flagstories - an autobiographical performative lecture including music by Lucian Ban, drawings by Dan Perjovschi and photos by the author herself.

Saviana was a college student in 1989 when she participated in the Romanian 'revolution' and the so-called 'end of communism'. Now she witnesses the so-called 'end of capitalism' in New York. (R)Evolution or Flagstories explores her immigrant experience in New York through the lens of a personal dichotomy East-West.

Saviana Stanescu is one of the most astounding Eastern European writers, a distinctive voice on the drama scene. She lives in New York City and teaches at the Drama Department at the New York University. Her plays have been widely presented internationally and in the US.
Her work includes: Aliens With Extraordinary Skills, Waxing West (2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script), Diary of a Clone and GOOGLE ME! (poetry), Black Milk (4 plays), Final Countdown, Aurolac Blues (published in Plays and Playwrights 2006). In 2007, Saviana Stanescu won the Maluric Prize for Best European Radio-drama for Bucharest Underground. The Inflatable Apocalypse received the Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award, in 2000.

The Accidental Festival was founded in 2006 and includes collaboration across a wide range of disciplines: stage and play readings, theatre, dance/movement, comedy, music, film, photography, lectures, workshops and panel discussions.

When: 23 May 2009, 8.30-10.00 pm
Where: FreeDM Studio, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8 EH
Admission: £10, £8 concessions. Box office: www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/book-tickets/saviana-stanescu-3219 or 0844 482 8008.