Comedy in two parts by Leonard Gershe
Translation: Elisabeta Pop, Teodor Crişan and Otto Szombati Gille

Artistic director: Otto Szombati Gille
Scenography: Gyöngyi Újvárossy Kerekes
Premiere date: March 24, 1992

A tender, moving play, "Butterflies Are Free" was one of the most successful performances on Broadway, and also enjoyed a cinematic adaptation to match this success. Born blind, Don lived his entire life with his mother, almost tyrannical in her affection. In his early youth and in full expansion of the flower-power movement, Don decides to break away from his mother's tutelage, in search of freedom and his own identity. Soon, he knows a different meaning of love than the maternal one, through Jill, an actress at the beginning of her career and already gone through a divorce. A woman-child, irresponsible, playful, Jill fascinates Don with her exuberance, just as Don conquers Jill with his culture and lifestyle that makes him different from all her lovers up to that point. Beyond melodrama and sentimentality, the show captures situations that remain essentially the same despite the passage of time, with young adults being shaken by the same small dramas, equivocal situations and uncertainties.

Distribution:

Don Baker:   Doru Firte
Jill Tanner:  Elvira Plato
Mrs. Baker:  Alla Tautu
Ralph Austin:  Petre Panait, Dorin Presecan

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Vasile Blejan, Iosif Balogh, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Stelian Panea