Comedy by Dimitris Psatas
Translation: Corneliu Şerban and Lambros Zogas
National premiere

Artistic direction:  Otto Szombati Gille
Scenography: Tatiana Manolescu Uleu
Premiere date: November 21, 1978

Inspired by the realities of the contemporary world, the comedy "The Little Pharisees" by the Greek playwright Dimitris Psatos places individuals who are struggling with morality under scrutiny and exposes hypocrisy, falsehood, and the thirst for enrichment. In "Familia" no. 12 of December 1978, Dumitru Chirilă gives the following succinct presentation of the plot: "A respectable gentleman, with a serious wife and a girl to marry, makes a rendezvous with a no less respectable but much younger neighbor, in an apartment they consider discreet, hidden from the eyes and ears of the world. In the way of the extramarital happiness of their two neighbors, a rather foolish young man, a "world-troublemaker", appears inopportunely. In the next act, the complications will increase, because the young man turns out to be – no more, no less – the very expected suitor for the hand of the respectable gentleman's daughter and since at the previous meeting the illegal couple had declined a false identity, it will not be easy at all to cope with the perplexity and curiosity of the legal partners, the moment they feel that "there is something". (…) Everything in an avalanche of entanglements, funny situations and well-placed punchlines, including an ending in which the hero, believing himself to be in a limit situation, makes some uncontrolled confessions. " Thus ends the parade of "honesty" and "correctness".

Distribution:

Mine:  Florence Manea
Michael:  Nicolae Barosan
Tanasis:  Marcel Popa
Deli:  Ion Tomorrow
Betty:  Mariana Neagu
Aristides:  Ion Abrudan
Apples:  Ileana Iurciuc
Lucia:  Alla Tautu
Anna:  Anca Miere Chirilă
Menelaus:  Nicholas Thomas
Hotel owner:  Laurian Jivan
His wife:  Mariana Vasile

Technical director: Marioara Goina
Prompter: Florence Manea
Lights: Emeric Kozak
Musical illustration and sound design: Dorel