Comedy by Rudi Strahl
Translation: Aneta Dobre
National premiere

Artistic direction:  Otto Szombati Gille
Scenography: Tatiana Manolescu Uleu
Music illustration: Adi Braun
Premiere date: February 12, 1972

„"The Adam and Eve Trial" is a debate - literally and figuratively - about an essential issue in human life: the founding of a family, a home. The young Adam Schmitt, a car mechanic and footballer, and Eva Muller, a future midwife, looking for the Civil Registry Office, instead find themselves in the courtroom of a separate court, a kind of "pre-civil registry" that is intended to decide whether or not the future bride and groom are allowed to marry. The court is composed of a judge in the process of divorcing, a divorced prosecutor, a convinced single lawyer and a widowed clerk.

The play pleads against the ease with which marriages are sometimes concluded. It is intended to be an alarm signal addressed especially to young people in love, containing some incursions into the past, but also into the probable future of the candidates for marriage, discussing a series of moral, but also material problems of the future marriage. The play defends lasting marriage, based on sincere love, on a good prior knowledge of the partner, on a spirit of responsibility, thus becoming the sine-qua-non element of a fulfilled life.

Distribution:

Adam:  Nicolae Barosan
Eve:  Ana Popa 
The judge:  Dorel Urlățeanu  emeritus artist
The lawyer:  Ion Abrudan
The prosecutor:  Alla Tautu
The clerk:  Marcel Segărceanu 
Hans:  Mihai Paunescu
Hella:  Marlena Prigoreanu

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Agy Segărceanu