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Saviana Stanescu
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Born in Romania, Saviana Stanescu emigrated to the USA as a young woman. Her extended poem ‘GOOGLE ME!’ invokes Ovid as part of her meditation on fame, and one’s ability to control the boundaries of the self, in a virtual world. In a connected play For a Barbarian Woman Stanescu reimagines Ovid’s exile in Tomis (now Constanţa in modern Romania), and uses his plight to think about the relationship between colonizer and colonized. The play moves back and forth between the ancient and modern world, establishing echoes between Rome and Tomis, and the USA and Iraq. Furthermore, as its two pairs of lovers (one from the ancient world, and one from the contemporary world) struggle with their fraught relationships, they threaten to play out one of the most doomed literary partnerships of recent years—the story of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Title: Saviana Stanescu
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Born in Romania, Saviana Stanescu emigrated to the USA as a young woman.
Her extended poem ‘GOOGLE ME!’ invokes Ovid as part of her meditation on fame, and one’s ability to control the boundaries of the self, in a virtual world.
In a connected play For a Barbarian Woman Stanescu reimagines Ovid’s exile in Tomis (now Constanţa in modern Romania), and uses his plight to think about the relationship between colonizer and colonized.
The play moves back and forth between the ancient and modern world, establishing echoes between Rome and Tomis, and the USA and Iraq.
Furthermore, as its two pairs of lovers (one from the ancient world, and one from the contemporary world) struggle with their fraught relationships, they threaten to play out one of the most doomed literary partnerships of recent years—the story of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.