Play in two parts by Paul Everac

Artistic director: Dan Alecsandrescu
Scenography: Maria Haţeganu
Premiere date: March 17, 1981

The title of the song refers to the "Book of Job" in the Bible, which depicts exemplary events from the life of the wise man Job, whom God tests by allowing Satan to bring all kinds of obstacles, pains and catastrophes in his path. Job overcomes all the trials, helped by patience and immense faith in God.

Lacking effective dramatic action, the play "Ioviţă's Book" is made up of a series of dialogues that are unified in theme, but varied in terms of the typologies involved. Engineer Ioviţă is possessed by an ideal that is difficult to understand for those around him: the belief in socialism. His wife, friends and colleagues try to make him open his eyes to reality, to see that the facts around him are not at all as they were prophesied. Scene by scene, Ioviţă is confronted with very concrete truths of life, which seem to knock him down through immediate material or spiritual arguments. Although the distance between doctrine and reality is quite large, his convictions remain unshaken. "Engineer Ioviță believes that he must defeat inertia, break down conformism and routine. Discovering forms of progress, even in sectors of activity as humble or ordinary as they may seem, seems to him to be part of the elementary duty of life and the human condition. He is convinced that the difficulties or various setbacks that may arise cannot prevent everything. Above all, he needs to feel at the service of the people; this is not necessarily by climbing the barricades, or displaying inspiring airs, but by proceeding with simple, natural, humane and good-faith measures." (Prof. Ion Zamfirescu)

Distribution:

Iovita:  Eugen Tugulea
Delifăzeanu:  Marcel Segărceanu
Bertha:  Simona Constantinescu
Ghermanescu:  Dan Glasu, Tiberiu Covaci
Dido:  Cristina Schiopu
Baltatu:  John Martin
Bush:  Ion Tomorrow
Ilihoi:  Jean Sandulescu, Petru Diaconu, Marcel Popa

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Valentin Bodonea

AWARDS:
-3rd Prize at the National Festival "Singing Romania"„