Comedy by Mircea Ştefănescu

Artistic direction: Sică Alexandrescu, People's Artist (National Theatre "ILCaragiale" Bucharest)
Assistant director: Valentin Avrigeanu
Musical illustration: Oradea Garrison Fanfare, conductor: Corneliu Săndulescu
Decor: Maria Hateganu
Costumes: Gabriela Nazarie
Premiere date: May 4, 1969

„"The Little Inferno" was considered a "dramatic novel" because its action takes place over forty years; each of the three acts corresponds to a stage in human life, from youth to old age. The play depicts the "little inferno" of a marriage that, knowing how to defend itself from temptations, always saves the marital edifice. The first two acts abound in situations that are not devoid of humor, which stem from the tricks invented by both husband and wife to ensure their marital fidelity endangered by the seductions specific to each age. The third act recapitulates the truths related to a lasting marriage, a mixture of love, hate and violent sensuality. However, without being a thesis play, "The Little Inferno" is a work dedicated to consecrated love and lasting marriage. "The little inferno... a story about the ages, miseries and happiness of man in the domestic environment, has the scent of lavender and the durable stitching of the whites kept in the old chest" (Valentin Silvestru, "Contemporanul", November 22, 1968).

Distribution:

Husband:  Nicholas Thomas
The doctor:  Marcel Anghelescu people's artist (National Theatre "ILCaragiale" Bucharest), Radu Voicescu
The courtier:  George Pintilescu
Orderly:  Ion Martin, Radu Voicescu
Wife:  Simona Constantinescu
Mother-in-law:  Lili Mihailescu Vladimir
Secretary:  Gina Nicolae

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Sofica Spoiala
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Dorel Olea