Ceausescu's final hours depicted in new play

Written by one of the institute's founders, Milo Rau, and played by Romanian actors, the show "meticulously reconstructs the events and the setting" of the trial in a military barracks in Targoviste in southern Romania.
After two performances in Bucharest on Thursday and Friday, the play is to be presented in Berlin from December 18-21. Bern and Zurich will host it in January and Lucerne in February.
Created in 2007, the institute works on the reconstruction of historical events through art.
Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were executed by firing squad following a brief trial. His communist regime was the last to crumble in Eastern Europe in 1989.
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