Play in two parts by Alexandr Ghelman
Translation: Tudor Steriade

Artistic direction and soundtrack: Cornel Mihalache
Scenography: Gyöngyi Újvárossy Kerekes
Premiere date: December 17, 1991

With a specific acuity of vision, playwright Alexandr Ghelman captures a family drama "at a moment when the emotional tensions - the accumulation of dissatisfaction and cowardice hidden under the masks of convenience, of suppressed vanities - are discharged in a furious quarrel between the spouses, triggered by a work accident in which the son lost his arms.

Andrei Golubev had an unhappy family life, Natasha also had an unhappy life, alongside the man she loved and from whom she gradually became estranged, as he climbed, step by step, in the hierarchy of a large construction trust. We, the viewers, are presented not with the moments of disintegration, of the tearing apart of this life; these moments had taken place in the hidden folds of each person's soul, when they had betrayed each other and each of them themselves, out of the desire to succeed in social life (…) The law of compensation, an economic law, says that there is no gain without loss; Golubev won, he finally became the director of the trust, an important link in the endless chain of production relations, but at the cost of his son's physical infirmity and at the cost, more bitterly, of his own spiritual infirmity (…).

Engineer Golubev is guilty of the loss of authenticity, Natasha is also guilty of complicity, but the names of other culprits are also mentioned: Goncearov, the director of the trust, the one who distorted Golubev in the sense of "necessary" social hypocrisy, and others, who are in more or less personal relationships with the Golubevs. A whole vicious circle of lies and fear is guilty, in which the fear of lies is prevented by the lies arising from fear. (…)„ (Constantin Radu-Maria, in the magazine "Teatrul", no. 12/1983)

Distribution:

Andrew:  Ion Tomorrow
Natasha:  Oana Mereuta

Technical director: Eugenia Popa
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Vasile Blejan, Balogh Iosif, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide