Comedy in three acts by Victor Ion Popa

Artistic direction: Mihai Fotino
Assistant director: Mariana Neagu
Scenography: Bölöni Vilmos
Premiere date: December 12, 1995

In a small town in the Moldavian province, three small merchants of different ethnicities live a quiet life: Take-Romanian, Ianke-Jewish and Cadîr-Turk. Each of them runs a modest shop on the outskirts of the town, covering the small needs of the inhabitants. The life of the three unfolds according to some seemingly ancestral rhythms, slowly, without major events, in a kind of pleasant torpor. It is based on a long-established friendship (approximately thirty years) and reconfirmed daily through meaningful gestures. This perfect balance is interrupted by the arrival of Ana (Ianke's daughter) and Ionel (Take's son), who were studying in Bucharest, at the Commercial Academy. They announce their decision to get married. The loving parents would accept the marriage if they were not afraid of the public, which would condemn a relationship between two different ethnicities. All their spiritual turmoil is finally resolved by Cadîr, who helps the young people open a shop "in association". The new shop will be called "In Jerusalem", because "there we are both Turkish and Jewish and Christian".

Distribution:

Taches:  Ion Tomorrow
Yankee:  Eugen Harizomenov
Frame:  Eugen Tugulea
Elijah:  Nicholas Thomas
Baba Safta:  Simona Constantinescu
John:  Marius Costea
Anna:  Monalisa Basarab (debut)

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Vasile Blejan, Iosif Balogh, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide