East of Eden

CONTENTS: Lia Bugnar: Bones for Otto - Mimi Branescu: Insomniacs: The Far Side of the Accordion - Petre Barbu: Our Father Who Art in the Supermarket - Gianina Carbunariu: Stop the Tempo!

Petre Barbu: Born in Galati in 1962. He graduated from Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Galati. Senior Editor of Capital magazine. He made his literary debut in 1993, with a volume of short stories The Orange Shirt (Cartea Romaneasca Publishing House). He also published two novels, God Bless America and The Last Outbreak of the Legionary Submarine (both for Nemira Publishing House, 1995 and 1998). For his first play, God Bless America, he received the Camil Petrescu Award in 1997. Two other plays, Left of the Father and The Duellist, were nominated for Best New Play at the Uniter Gala, in 1998 and 2000. He finally received the prize in 2002 for Our Father Who Art in the Supermarket. Mimi Branescu: Born in 1974 in Lehliu, in the Calarasi region of Romania. He studied acting at the Bucharest Theatre and Film Academy. As an actor, his most important creations include Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (Bulandra Theatre); Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Resita Theatre); Jerry in Zoo Story by Edward Albee (Targoviste Theatre); Valerio in Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner (Targoviste Theatre). His first play, The Garbage Man, was produced in 2003 by the Act Theatre in Bucharest and by the Fanny Tardini Theatre in Galati. Other plays he has written include Hair Curlers (produced by the Nottara Theatre in Bucharest), The Dragons and The Panel at the End of the Bed (produced by the Maria Filotti Theatre in Braila). He also worked as a film actor in A Pack of Kent and a Pack of Coffee, directed by Cristi Puiu (Golden Bear in Berlin, 2004), and in Filantropica, directed by Nae Caranfil. Lia Bugnar: Born in 1969. She studied acting at the Bucharest Theatre and Film Academy. She has played numerous characters in theatre and cinema. Her most successful plays include You Can't Feel It Here and Bones for Otto, both of them produced by Green Hours Theatre in Bucharest. The two productions were invited to be performed at the Dublin Fringe