Comedy with music in two parts by H. Nicolaide and I. Berg

Artistic direction: Corneliu Zdrehuş
Scenography:  sandals Nagy
Music: George Grigoriu
Musical direction: Mihai Vasilescu
Choreography:  Eve Ombodi
Premiere date: December 31, 1964

The two scenes of Act I of the song comedy "Love, a New Story" are constructed as an alternation between past and present. The foray into the past is made through Tincuța's sketchbook, which presents the librarian Gina with snapshots from the period of the idyll that led to her marriage to the mechanic Ieremia Ionescu.

The play takes place within the brigade led by Tudor, from the "Caroseria" factories. During a trip to the seaside, carried out with the aim of testing a new ventilation system for the bus engine, developed by Tudor's team, they are joined by the motorcyclist Ioana, an engineer at the "Automobilul" factories in Brașov and Ieremia's sister. Not knowing her true identity, but still being attracted to her, Tudor treats her with superiority, taking her for a writer on a documentary mission. Ioana assumes this identity to teach the infatuated Tudor a lesson, who is not indifferent to her either.

The coast is the setting in which the controversial idylls between Ioana and Tudor, and between Tincuța and Ieremia, evolve, punctuated by funny entanglements, mostly caused by the Petrache-Iordache tandem, inseparable and, as naive as they are comical.

The finale of the play unfolds in a new test mission of the fan, this time in Predeal. Tudor's innovation proves to be non-functional, the team risking being stuck on the mountain indefinitely, due to cracks. The situation is saved by an efficient backup fan, secretly produced by the mechanics, during their free hours following Ieremia's guidance.

Joy once again becomes all-consuming in the small group, which can dedicate itself entirely to writing the new novel "with other heroes, other voices, another echo / Old song / And yet new" - love.

Distribution:

Tudor:  Liviu Martinus
Joanna:  Simona Constantinescu
Jeremiah:  Ion Abrudan
Tincuţa:  Marilena Black
Iordache:  John the Baptist
Petrache:  Boris Petroff
Gina:  Doina Ioja
Pandelescu:  Marcel Segărceanu
The waiter:  Nicholas Thomas
Picoliţa:  Olga the Serb

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Agy Segărceanu
Sound: Dorel Olea