by Guilherme Figueiredo
Translation: Miron – Lasernon – Vincze

Artistic director: Szombati Gille Otto
Assistant artistic director: Mihai Păunescu
Scenography: Eliza Popescu
Premiere date: November 11, 1971

The play by Brazilian writer Guilherme Figueiredo is not a reworking of the famous fable, but a poetic and critical reconsideration of it. Starting from the life of the fabulist Aesop and reconstructing a series of events and figures around him (master Xantos, his wife, Cleia, the slave Melita), the play turns into a subtle plea for peace and freedom. The flashes of the brilliant mind of the slave Aesop contrast with the deprivation of freedom and dignity, considered the only condition in which the human personality can fully assert itself. According to the director, the play is only apparently a comedy, being in fact permeated by a strong tragic thrill.

Distribution:

Aesop:  Eugen Harizomenov
Glue:  Simona Constantinescu
Xanthos:  Thomas Nicholas
Melita:  Virginia Rogin
Agnostic:  Eugen Tugulea
The Ethiopian:  Nicolae Barosan

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Agy Segărceanu