by Plautus
Translation: Nicolae Teica

Stage adaptation and artistic direction: Tudor Chirilă
Scenography: Cristian Rusu
Premiere date: April 5, 1997

A Macedonian captain has bought the Phoenician slave from Ballio, the woman-dealer, for 2000 drachmas, paying 1500 on the spot. The girl will be sent to him by his messenger, Harpax, who brings Ballio the missing 500 drachmas. Calidorus, the son of an Athenian nobleman, is in love with the girl and laments to his slave, Pseudolus. Next, the inventive slave, playful, sarcastic, ready to deceive everyone with ease, intercepts the captain's message and, after some clever stratagems, takes Phoenicia to his young master, allowing the fulfillment of the love of the two.

The postmodern stage version, signed by Tudor Chirilă after Plaut's text, brings this plot to the present day, in a twilight world, slightly promiscuous, lacking horizon, a kind of ghetto that finds its only refuge in the existence of the God and the Goddess (characters imagined by the director). But even these are not authentic mythological beings, their presence, which evolves from elegance to irony and mockery, suggesting precisely the impossibility of any salvation.

Distribution:

Pseudolus:  John Coman
Calidorus:  Alexander Cornea
Ballio:  Doru Firte
Simon:  Tiberiu Covaci
Callipho:  George Voinese
Harpax:  Andra Tudor
Charinus:  Monalisa Basarab
The chef:  Loredana Iuga
Feeling:  Ilie Turcu
Phoenicia:  Roxana Ivanciu
Hedylia:  Ofelia Fîrte
The boy:  Alexandru Firte
God:  Dorin Presecan
Deity:  Mariana Presecan

Technical director: Eugenia Popa
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Iosif Balogh, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide