Comedy by Dumitru Solomon

Artistic director: Victor Ioan Frunză
Scenography: Adriana Grand
Premiere date: February 26, 1985

„"The Baccalaureate Exam" is a fake detective story, devoid of sensational crimes, but populated by "moral assassins" (Ileana Berlogea, "Contemporanul", June 21, 1985) and animated by an investigation in which, paradoxically, naivety and innocence prove to be the most effective factors for discovering the truth.

On the eve of the baccalaureate exam held in a provincial town, the chairman of the committee, Professor Cantemir, mysteriously disappears. Murder? Escape? Those charged with investigating this situation are Teo, a recent law graduate, a trainee prosecutor on the first case, and Fifi, a young representative of public order, specialized in punishing the perpetrators of breaking windows in schools. They discover the spectacle of intellectual precariousness, mediocrity and imposture played by those who assault Professor Cantemir in order to obtain, through onerous means – blackmail, bribery, influence peddling – a baccalaureate diploma: the Director, Castor and Polux, Pscpsc, Diana and the Athlete. Beyond the moral charge, the play "Examen de bacalaureat" combines the proven means of comedy - the comic crescendo, the qui-pro-quo, the travesty, the puns and those of modern farce: the transition from the realistic to the absurd register, the combination of lyricism and prosaic into a whole that makes a special note in the ensemble of Dumitru Solomon's creation.

Distribution:

Fifi:  Dan Badarau
Theo:  Ileana Iurciuc
Cantemir:  Marcel Popa
Wife:  Simona Constantinescu
The director:  Nicolae Barosan
Castor and Pollux:  Daniel Vulcu
Lucretia Borgia:  Mariana Neagu
Pscpsc:  Nicholas Thomas
Diana:  Mariana Vasile 
The athlete:  Ion Ruscut
Voices: special effects:  Florence Manea

Technical direction and prompter: Florence Szabo
Lights: Iosif Balogh
Sound and special sound effects: Valentin Bodonea