by Iuliu Ratiu
„[…] The director from Iași, Constantin Brehnescu, responded to the invitation, coming up with a short version of the play (just a script) that did not even reach 10 pages (enough for a performance). And convinced that in the puppet theater the fairy tale must live (and does live) its «youth without old age», he began working with the actors-handlers, the result being a representation – a world of metaphor and symbol, with well-defined characters, who embody (with more or less artistic success) the notions without which the fairy tale would no longer exist – good and evil, the ideal of moral (and physical) beauty and the forces of evil. […]
C.Brehnescu is the author of a show in Iași with the same play, which was awarded the First Prize at the national final of the last edition of the national festival "Singing of Romania". The show in Oradea seems to us better from the point of view of direction, of deciphering the text. But even without this comparison, "Who is the Handsome Prince?" remains, for the people of Oradea, a reference show. Director C.Brehnescu must be recalled to this theater." (Cornel Banu, Family, (June 1982)
