Sergiu Viorel Urma’s stage play “Chessgame,” touching on the Romanian events of December ’87, is an ingenious parable of a mechanical, on-command murder.
The icons of the communist religion were often the butt of this obscene language..
The proletarian expletives and laughter were necessary for the mental health of the masses, offering a chance to escape from the tyrannical, one-party reality.
Communism was, essentially, rationing of food, medicine, gasoline, toilet paper, and rationing of everything, except of f-words, political jokes and cynicism.
As it progresses in the epic and historical matter, it becomes a violent indictment of totalitarianisms of any kind through grotesque, stylized, and shocking formulas.
Sergiu Viorel Urma’s stage play “Chessgame,” touching on the Romanian events of December ’87, is an ingenious parable of a mechanical, on-command murder
