Matei Visniec (1956) is an author from Romania, who uses both French and Romanian expression in his plays. The coordinates of his dramatic fictional universe bring together the absurd, the symbolic, the fantastic and the conflicts in the city of men, sometimes with accurate historical and current references. Animals, present onstage in many different ways, are very common in into their symbolic aspect, which defies the imagination by means of what is his plays. They constitute a strange wildlife between animal and human, between the real and the fantas-tic.Their presence in this theatrical universe fits enigmatic and incomprehensible; but it also falls into their committed side to the extent that the relationship between humans and animals are also a way of approaching the human condition as well as the troubles affecting the city of men. Keywords: theatre; absurd; fantastic; symbolic; ... [Llegir més ...]