Comedy by Carlo Goldoni
Translation: Polixenia Karambi

Artistic director: Alina Hiristea
Scenography: Camelia Panait
Stage movement: Rodica Dunca
Soundtrack: Florian Chelu
Premiere date: May 17, 2001

Two pairs of lovers and a quick and resourceful but always hungry servant, for whom an extra master means an extra dinner. But what if one of the masters is a woman?

Related to commedia dell'arte through situations and plot, the play "The Servant of Two Masters" proposes better individualized and more diversified types, the most colorful of which is Truffaldino, the one who knots and unties the tangled threads of the action.

Two Venetian noblemen, Doctor Lombardo and the merchant Pantalone de Bisognosi, plan the marriage of their children, Clarice and Silvio. Before the wedding, however, Clarice's former fiancé appears, who was thought to have died in a fight. In reality, the fiancé is Beatrice who, in disguise, is desperately searching for her lover, Florindo Aretusi from Turin. Between the two fiancés, Truffaldino will deploy his ingenious stratagems. Throughout the 10 paintings, he manages to complete the tasks imposed by the two masters, being a master in the art of interpreting what is wanted and what is not wanted. The action, which unfolds at a dizzying pace, with lively dialogues, qui-pro-quos and lots of humor, culminates with a perfect happy ending, which foreshadows no less than three weddings, as each has (re)found their soul mate: Clarice-Silvio, Beatrice-Florindo, Truffaldino-Smeraldina.

Distribution:

Pants of Need:  George Voinese
Clarice:  Angela Tanko
Doctor Lombardo:  Ion Abrudan
Silvio:  Serban Borda, Sorin Ciofu
Beatrice:  Mona Erhan
Florindo Aretusi:  Romeo Romitan
Brighella:  Alexander Rusu
Emerald:  Mirela Nita Lupu
Truffaldino:  Richard Balint
Gondoliers:  Gheorghe Iernea, Alexandru Luca, Nicolae Segărceanu, Cristian Segărceanu, István Kovács, Adrian Pintea, Alexandru Rois

Technical director: Ofelia Fîrte
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lights: Iosif Balogh, Sorin Precup, László Attila Oláh
Sound: Sorin Domide