Disrupted Lives in Romanian Drama on the Recent War ofUkraine. Erica Moldovan’s Manichiura rosie/ Red Manicureas a Case in Point

This paper will discuss the recent war in Ukraine as reflected in the disrupting events recorded by the media and used as material by emerging playwrights. We refer to Erica Moldovan’s Manichiura ro?ie/ Red Manicure which does not account for the conflict from a military or political perspective but grasps the collision between two different human lives separated by age, gender, education and faith, the only characters in the play. The work was inspired by a 2022 article in which the dead body of a woman named Iryna lied unidentified on the streets of Bucha without anyone claiming it. Only after 30 days did her manicurist realize it was someone she knew due to the painted nails seen in a picture from the internet.