Four-part play by Jozef Hen
Translation: Eva Colpacci
National premiere

Artistic director: Tadeusz Pliszkiewicz (Poland)
Scenography: Tatiana Manolescu Uleu
Artistic consultant: Alexandru Colpacci
Premiere date: May 28, 1981

A detective story, "Hostage Z" starts from the ever-present theme of terrorism embodied in violence, kidnappings and attacks. The psychological charge of the play arises both from the tension between the victim and the villains, and from the conflicts that arise in the group of five kidnappers. The kidnapping victim, Herbert, is a modest character, full of morbid tics. The five aggressors make up a gallery of diverse characters, in which the tendencies towards robbery and violence are unexpectedly mitigated by inclinations towards humanity and compassion: doctor Carlo (the leader of the group), Otto – petty and ferocious, the gravedigger Pietro, the young Paul and Ilza – a tough, degraded woman. The message of the play is that, despite the alienation of the being under the influence of complexes or obsessions generated by the social environment, salvation, humanism and normality remain possible.

Distribution:

Otto:  Ion Tomorrow
Peter:  Marcel Segărceanu
Herbert:  Nicolae Barosan
Paul:  Dan Glasu
Ilsa:  Cristina Schiopu
Carlo:  Eugen Tugulea

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Vasile Blejan, Iosif Balogh
Sound: Dorel Olea