Comedy in three acts by Tudor Muşatescu

Directed by: Dorel Urlăţeanu
Scenography: François Pamfil
Premiere date: January 15, 1965

The comedy "…Escu" resumes part of the gallery of characters that populate the famous play "Titanic Waltz": Decebal Necșulescu, the youngest son of Spirache, strives to reach the Government, like his father, using the successive move from one party to another as a political strategy. Unlike his father, who looks at the electoral mechanism with coldness and distance, Decebal is integrated into the political life of Bucharest of his own free will, he gladly plunges into the whirlpool of confrontations, without sparing any effort to become a deputy, even a minister. When he is beaten by mistake, he understands with the help of Nina Damian (his secret lover) that a man victimized for his ideas has a great chance of getting where he wants to go. This is where the title of the play comes from: when Nina accuses him of being "a random, ambitious and arivist "Escu", who has been through all the parties, been immersed in all the doctrines and entered parliament by mistake", Decebal retaliates, making this appellation almost an honorary title: "I live in a huge family of "Eşti": "Popești", "Vasilești", "Ionești", "Dumitrești", "Georgești", "Necțulești" and other "Eşti" kept without bread by the political mores of an eminently agricultural country (...) I am not interested in the means by which I got there and I want to get there!... I only know that within me I feel the unclear call of greatness, and this is the strength that helps me to overcome all obstacles, to overcome all difficulties." However, the author insists on the positive spiritual reserves of the hero, who "has established himself and created immense popularity, precisely through an unparalleled integrity and outrageous honesty". These qualities do not apply to his family life, which seems on the verge of disintegration: while Decebal is Nina's lover, her husband, Bébé, insistently courts Amélie, Decebal's wife, even trying to direct amorous encounters for him in order to convince Amélie to give in to him. In the end, Amélie appears as the character who is most in control of the situation, the owner of all the threads of the plot and the one who masterfully unfolds them. The dramatic coup that concludes the play depicts the fall of the government on the very evening when Decebal celebrates his appointment as minister and his decision to establish his own party - a national liberal-peasant one.

Distribution:

Decebal Sp Necsulescu:  George Pintilescu
George Langada:  Misu Vladimir
Traian Necsulescu:  Vasile Constantinescu
General Stamatescu:  Constantin Simionescu
Platon Stamatescu:  Valeriu Grama
Baby Damian:  Jean Sandulescu
Amelie:  Doina Urlățeanu
General Stamatescu's stake:  Lili Mihailescu Vladimir
Nina Damian:  Mia Popescu
A commissioner:  Grig Schiţcu
Fans:  Valentin Avrigeanu
Pashlica:  Octavian Uleu
Myths:  Ana Popa, Anamaria Biluska, Olga Sîrbul
Manole:  John Martin
Anna:  Anca Miere Chirilă
First voter:  Eugen Tugulea
Second voter:  Ilie Iliescu

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Sofica Spoiala
Sound: Dorel Olea