Studio show

Screenplay: Mircea Constantinescu, based on texts by: Aeschylus, William Shakespeare, Mihai Eminescu, Ben Jonson, IL Caragiale, Goethe, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ilf and Petrov

Conceived as a kind of balance sheet of the acting means and skills acquired in the first five years of activity after graduating from the faculty, the show proposed by Mircea Constantinescu – „Gathering the Labor of Time in an Hour” grouped twenty-five fragments from various works that link antiquity to the present, including: „Prometheus” by Aeschylus, „Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand, „Volpone” by Ben Jonson, „Hamlet”, „As You Like It”, „Twelfth Night”, „Romeo and Juliet” and „A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare, „Letter I” by Mihai Eminescu, „Night Asylum” by Maxim Gorky, „Danton” by Camil Petrescu, „Master Manole” by Lucian Blaga. The guiding ideas of the show were the following: art does not copy, does not imitate, but creates life; theater is even more than life itself; The themes of meditation were numerous and varied: cosmogony, truth, human revolt, the purposes of art and the artist, intelligence, freedom, falsehood, happiness, love, sacrifice, balance, history, optimism, loneliness, struggle. The show questioned trust in man and the values he embodies, raising the ultimate question: what are the meanings of our passage through the world?

Artistic direction and performance: Mircea Constantinescu
Scenography:  Zoltan Zsako
Music: Marian Boboia
Musical direction: LOUIS Boross
Premiere date: June 20, 1980