Comedy by Paul Everac
National premiere

Artistic director: Szombati Gille
Scenography: I. Géza Bíró
Premiere date: September 15, 1977

Director Farfuz in the comedy "Kidney Stone" by Paul Everac embodies that boss accustomed to deciding alone and abusively who will be promoted, demoted or fired, transforming the sector he leads into a personal feud. He is seconded by an accomplice chief of staff and a union president lacking energy and will. The mechanism is perpetuated until Vigil Urechiatu, under the impulse of a kidney crisis, rises up against this state of affairs, affirming some truths that others did not dare to say. He denounces the lie, the imposture, the greed, the scam, the dishonesty that infiltrates society like kidney stones in a healthy body. The kidney crisis becomes the crisis of truth that scares the leaders, especially since it is contagious, encompassing all the employees.

Written in the hope of correcting some of the flaws of contemporary society, the play benefits from a filmic structure, with rapid transitions from one scene to another. "Stone in the Kidney" is an exhortation to a firm attitude, to disapprove of situations similar to those in the play, and advocates the rejection of comfort, indifference, and blindly passing by reprehensible deeds and fellow human beings worthy of all contempt.

Distribution:

Virgil Urecheatu:  Ion Abrudan
Farfuz:  Ion Tomorrow 
Mess:  Nicholas Thomas
Lathe:  Grig Schiţcu
Dr. Ranchiş:  Marcel Segărceanu
Carob:  Marcel Popa
Viorel Scurtulet:  Ion Martin, Mircea Constantinescu
Camelia Stracsineanu:  Mariana Vasile
Pride:  Olympia Tomorrow
Doctor Odobica:  Alla Tautu, Simona Constantinescu
Nurse:  Doina Urlățeanu
Spade:  Anca Miere Chirilă
Geta Pie:  Mariana Neagu, Florence Manea

Technical director: Mărioara Goina
Prompter: Florence Manea
Lights: Emeric Kozák, Mihai Farkas
Sound: Dorel Olea, Iosif Balogh