Comedy in three acts, ten scenes by Carlo Goldoni
Translation: Polixenia Karambi

Artistic director: Vasile Pop
Sets: Horia Popescu and George Oriold
Fencing Master: János Szántay
Premiere date: June 8, 1957

Two pairs of lovers and a quick and resourceful but always hungry servant, for whom an extra master means an extra dinner. But what if one of the masters is a woman?

Related to commedia dell'arte through situations and plot, the play "The Servant of Two Masters" proposes better individualized and more diversified types, the most colorful of which is Truffaldino, the one who knots and unties the tangled threads of the action.

Two Venetian noblemen, Doctor Lombardo and the merchant Pantalone de Bisognosi, plan the marriage of their children, Clarice and Silvio. Before the wedding, however, Clarice's former fiancé appears, who was thought to have died in a fight. In reality, the fiancé is Beatrice who, in disguise, is desperately searching for her lover, Florindo Aretusi from Turin. Between the two fiancés, Truffaldino will deploy his ingenious stratagems. Throughout the 10 paintings, he manages to complete the tasks imposed by the two masters, being a master in the art of interpreting what is wanted and what is not wanted. The action, which unfolds at a dizzying pace, with lively dialogues, qui-pro-quos and lots of humor, culminates with a perfect happy ending, which foreshadows no less than three weddings, as each has (re)found their soul mate: Clarice-Silvio, Beatrice-Florindo, Truffaldino-Smeraldina.

Distribution:

Truffaldino:  Jean Sandulescu
Trousers:  Constantin Simionescu
Clarice:  Doina Urlățeanu
Emerald:  Doina Ioja Vasiu
The doctor:  Radu Reisel
Silvio:  Eugen Nagy
Florindo:  Serban Bogdan, Ricardo Colberti
Beatrice:  Sanda Ghiculescu Pena, Cristina Tacoi
Brighella:  Aurel Decu, Grig Schiţcu
The waiter:  Grig Schitcu, Gheorghe V. Gheorghe
The porter:  Al.Mitea
A gondolier:  Francisc Belényi
A servant:  Marcel Segărceanu
Gondoliers, servants, etc.
The action takes place in Venice.

Technical direction: Al.Mitea
Prompter: Cornelia Brezeanu