The Festival as an Interconnected Network

The article aims to analyze the relevance of the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Festival and its turning points since 2022. The reflection is meant to contextualize the festival within the landscape of Romanian performing arts, emphasizing the educational dimension, which is viewed as a significant link between theatre and new categories of audiences, thus reshaping the role of theatre nowadays. The text explores the curatorial strategies that connect the selection of shows with a more complex repertoire of cultural gestures that define a festival as a social and cultural network.