 
                            
                    “Mad Forest” distills 1989 Romania into anecdotes
        Like a talisman, theater has that magical quality of transforming, in a mere gesture, families or friend groups into single representative images of entire civilizations, nations and colleges. Oedipus, for example, might sleep with Hamlet’s mother on stage. Hamlet’s mother might move    
        
    
        
    
 
             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                            