by Ana Blandiana
Adaptation: Stanca Ponta
National premiere

Artistic director: Zoe Anghel-Stanca 
Scenography: Epaminonda Tiotiu 
Music: Erasmus Minchevici
Premiere date: 30.06.1982.

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)

by AEGreidanus
Translation and adaptation: Antoaneta Ralianu and Stanca Ponta

„[…] The show proposed by Muşata Mucenic, based on this medieval-looking text by the Dutch playwright, has coherence and its own, convincing life. This Hocus-Pocus, a character who confuses and straightens out the relationships between his peers – a kind of Păcală from another time and another space – has not only charm, but also an educational and formative function that should not be neglected in a show for children. An existing function, perceptible in the Oradea show. The staging also provided a useful exercise for the troupe, many of its members being on their first appearance «in flesh and blood», in front of the audience, and yet giving certain evidence of interpretative talent. In the title role, loan Moldovan stands out, a mobile and expressive actor; alongside him, Rodica Suplăcan (Sandra), Marlena Prigoreanu (Simplina) and loan Oros (Dofilius) contribute to the success of the show in particular.” (Dinu Kiva, Theater, (No. 6, June 1982)