Comedy in three acts by Alexei Arbuzov
Translation: Margareta Bărbuţă

Artistic direction: Corneliu Zdrehuş
Scenography: Francisc Tóth
Premiere date: December 25, 1956

The poetic story of the comedy "Meeting with Youth" takes place at the headquarters of an experimental vegetable resort on the Kama River in the Soviet Union. The resort's director, Maxim Golubchin, has turned forty, leaving behind the enthusiasm of youth, when the whole world seemed to have opened its doors to him. From that creative impulse, Maxim slowly descended to the level of an idealless existence, to an attitude of self-sufficiency.

The events of the play demonstrate how Maxim rediscovers the true meaning of existence and regains his spiritual youth, but not alone; he finds his dreams and his old love, Mașa, and by his side are the young Alenca, Colea and Tosea Cijova, as well as his father, elderly but endowed with great spiritual freshness, Chiril Ivanovici.

Distribution:

Maxim Golubkin:  Zacharias Volbea
Kirill Ivanovich:  Constantin Simionescu
Kolea:  Marcel Segărceanu 
Sasha:  Lulu Popescu
Alenka:  Doina Urlățeanu
Tosia Cijova:  Doina Ioja Vasiu

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Agy Segărceanu