Comedy by Carlo Goldoni
Translation: N.Al.Toscani
Co-produced show with the Northern Theater in Satu Mare

Stage adaptation and artistic direction: Cristian Ioan
Scenography: Dan Jitianu
Music: Anamaria Manfredi
Premiere date: April 2, 1994

The aspiration to rival the aristocracy, through expensive pleasures, can bring serious harm to the bourgeoisie in the midst of a crisis of values. Two families ardently engage in preparations to spend a few months in the country, even at the cost of enormous debts ("The Mania of the Holiday"). The bucolic life is the setting in which loves flourish, but also rivalries, while the precarious fortune is squandered ("The Adventures of the Holiday"). Upon returning to Livorno, reality regains its rights to govern reason and feelings ("The Return from the Holiday"). Material ruin rhymes with sentimental and moral ruin in this world in which everything - from love to social relationships - is only appearance, and the only way to maintain appearances is well-being, also chimerical. Everything is an unsuccessful copy of the aristocratic way of life: concerned only with the frivolous aspects of life and forgetting the essentials, the traveling bourgeois are never in the right place or at the right time, so the only ones who truly enjoy the vacation are the servants...

Distribution:

Performers from the Oradea State Theater:
Jacinta:  Mariana Presecan
Ferdinand:  Daniel Vulcu
William:  Ion Abrudan
Rosina:  Ileana Iurciuc
Tognino:  Petre Panait

Performers from the Satu Mare Northern Theatre:
Philip:  Ion Tifor
Leonardo:  Carol Erdos
Victory:  Adriana Vaida
Fulgence:  Marcel Mirea
Paul:  Vasile Blaga
Bridget:  Ortanza Codreanu
Sabina:  Viorica Suciu
Constance:  Livia Ungureanu
Bernardino:  Constantin Dumitra
A lover:  Aurora Demeter
An angel:  Christian Dan
Statue of the Goddess Athena:  Carmen Fratilă
The Nevermore Corps:  Radu Cioara

Technical director: Eugenia Popa
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Balogh Iosif, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide

AWARDS:
-Grand Prize at the International Theatre-Image Festival, 3rd edition, Satu Mare, 1994 (tied with the show The game of slaughter directed by Beatrice Bleonţ)