by Adrian Dohotaru

Artistic direction and soundtrack: Zoe Anghel Sanca
Scenography: Maria Haţeganu
Premiere date: June 14, 1983

„"The Lovers at 9 PM" is the play of a life experience that marks a person until old age: the first love, experienced when leaving adolescence and entering young adulthood. The author focuses on a pair of pure, beautiful, good-natured and "home early" lovers: Radu and Ana, students on the verge of their baccalaureate exams. The love story is invested with absolute credit: there is no shadow of doubt or unhappiness that could affect the harmony within. "As long as love remains a solitude between two, it is less exposed to corrosion, contacts with the environment can, however, generate errors, some serious, that "turn life inside out", requiring an immense dose of generosity and (despite the young age) mature thoughtfulness so that the broken thread can be retied. Under the overwhelming pressure from the outside (made up of vulgarity, wickedness related to delinquency, opacity in the face of pure feelings), the heroes of the play reach an intensely dramatic realm, but the author (…) loves them so much that he does not let them suffer, he takes them by the hand and puts them on the right path.” (Dumitru Chirilă, „Familia”, July 1983).

Distribution:

Anna:  Tania Filip
Radu:  Emil Sauciuc
Parent:  Simona Constantinescu
Father:  Marcel Popa
Ali, the Student and the Black Man:  Tiberiu Covaci
Colleague:  Mirela Corbeanu
Jimmy:  George Voinese
Gigi:  John Martin

Technical director: Mărioara Goina
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Musical illustration and sound design: Dorel Olea