by AJCronin
Translation: Silvia Cucu
National premiere

Artistic direction: Corneliu Zdrehuş
Decor:  sandals Nagy  and Tatiana Manolescu Oil
Costumes: Tatiana Manolescu Uleu
Premiere date: February 4, 1966

The action of the play "Jupiter is Amused" takes place in England at the beginning of the 20th century and addresses the moral condition of the intellectual in a society that does not always understand him or is favorable to him. Doctor Venner, a man with great intellectual resources and passionate about his profession, wants to continue his research into a very important medical problem. To succeed, he has to fight with the management and most of the staff of a private sanatorium. The confrontation between the camps is dramatic and uncompromising, signifying the opposition between the generosity and humanism of the scientist and the rapacity, the mercantilistism of those who want to transform science and its discoveries into a profitable industry and a way of making a living.

The heroes begin their evolution firmly in their conceptions, to gradually change along the way, as if abandoning masks. Doctor Venner, blasé, cynical and misogynistic at first, later proves capable of great sensitivities and passionate love. Mary Murray, who has a missionary duty to fulfill in the Far East, abandons her calling to remain with the man she loves with a very earthly love. Old Doctor Drewett, hides under the mask of indifference and selfishness a warm soul, capable of deep attachment.

The value of the play lies in its human, tonic and optimistic meanings. The show is constructed as a scenic dialogue of ideas, of life and professional conceptions, as a struggle of the characters through attitudes and beliefs, as an intellectual conflict in a world of intellectuals.

Distribution:

Edgar Bragg:  Jean Sandulescu
Gladys Bragg:  Simona Constantinescu
Paul Venner:  Vasile Constantinescu
Richard Drewett:  Dorel Urlățeanu 
George Thorogood:  Frigid Palóczy  
Mary Murray:  Gina Nicolae
Fanny Leeming:  Alla Tautu
Jenny:  Ana Popa
Albert Chivers:  John the Baptist
Martha Foster:  Anca Miere Chirilă

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Sofica Spoiala