by Matei Visniec

Artistic director: Petru Vutcărău
Scenography: Sergiu Savin
Premiere date: December 19, 1995

In a waiting room, where we do not know what awaits, three people try to cope with the lack of occupation, boredom and the passage of time. The fourth plays the cello, unperturbed, without stopping. If at first, his music arouses the interest of the others, this gradually turns into indifference, then even into exasperation, into the refusal to listen to the unknown singer shrouded in mystery. In the end, the instrumentalist will be forcibly evacuated, leaving behind the cello, awkward and useless. From here is born the leitmotif that will give the title of the play: "And what do we do with the cello?" enunciated almost obsessively towards the end. If at a first level, the theme of the incompatibility between art and the obtuseness of some individuals is approached, at another level, derived from the theater of the absurd, the play can be interpreted as a metaphor for the installation of a symptomatic state for contemporary man.

Distribution:

The man with the cello:  Stefan Rado
The man with the newspaper:  Doru Firte
The man with the stick:  Petre Panait
The veiled woman:  Elvira Platon Rîmbu

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lights: Iosif Balogh
Sound: Sorin Domide

AWARDS:
-Award for the best performance at the National Drama Festival, Timişoara, 1996
-Best Actor Award: Petre Panait
-Directing Award: Petru Vutcărău
-Scenography Award: Sergiu Savin
-Male Performance Award: Petre Panait, at the Târgu-Mureş Festival, 1996