Almost a farce by Mircea Radu Iacoban

Artistic director: Dan Alecsandrescu
Scenography: Adriana Grand
Premiere date: October 7, 1986

« …an old mechanic was hammering the wheels. „Why are you hammering, father?„ I asked him. ”Besides, I’ve been hammering them for four years. And I forgot why» » (Grandfather).

„"It's Raining in Sovata" is a sad comedy that focuses on a group of petty officials, routined to the point of losing their identity, bored, robotic and terrorized by their boss. Their entire youth died in the suffocating office, their entire life passed in procrastination, demoralization and apathy. A window located too high, which everyone wants to open and which always closes by itself announces the breaking of conventionalism and freezing in patterns. The event that takes them out of their deadly routine is the arrival of the Citizen (an anonymous one, because they cannot see him through the small windows of the counters). Regaining their humanity, they realize that life has flown by while they have endlessly collected numbers and formulas. It is the moment when all the pains, unfulfillments, secret dreams come to light. Like Gogol or Dostoevsky, behind insignificant people lies subtlety, depth, tenderness, but also destructive anger.

Ultimately, the play does not lament individual destinies, but man's alienation from his essence in an increasingly hurried, superficial world, man's loneliness among his peers who have forgotten to listen to him.

Distribution:

Date:  Marcel Segărceanu
Nectar:  Mariana Neagu
Severina:  Mariana Vasile
Valenţica:  Ileana Iurciuc
Theophilus:  Emil Sauciuc
The boss:  Nicolae Barosan
Feather:  Eugen Tugulea
The waiter:  Ion Ruscut
The citizen:  Tiberiu Covaci
Mr. X:  Marcel Popa

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lights: Emeric Kozák, Iosif Balogh
Musical illustration and sound design: Valentin Bodonea