A two-part play by Gabriel García Márquez
Translation: Darie Novaceanu

Dramatization, artistic direction and soundtrack: Ion Sapdaru
Assistant director: Elvira Platon Rîmbu
Scenography: Vioara Bara
Set design assistants: Oana Cernea and Csaba Baican
Choreography: Victoria Bucun
Premiere date: September 12, 2000

„"The story of the "ruthless" grandmother who forces her beautiful and immature granddaughter Erendira to prostitute herself in order to compensate her for the damage caused in a fire that consumed her house and for which she holds her own granddaughter responsible is skillfully dramatized by director Ion Sapdaru. He borrows from another Marquesan story an angel [...] to whom he gives a role of raisonné, as the narrator of the whole plot, an angel who descends God from the machine with the chaos in the heavens and which, in the end, will ascend to the kingdoms the heroine of the show, Erendira. A suffering and humiliation on earth rewarded with a rapture between the Lord.

The juxtaposition of moral monstrosity and senile cupidity (the grandmother) and virginal beauty (Erendira) creates a picture of extraordinary strength and drama. Bought for a hundred or so pessos by a "widower", deflowered and then abandoned to the pleasures of soldiers and smugglers, Erendira has, however, the chance to discover her love in a client who has never made love again and who is also an angel (whose wings were cut off by life). In order to snatch her away from the debauchery imposed by the old woman, the monks of an order kidnap Erendira and lock her up in a monastery, preparing her for an ascetic life or a forced marriage to an oligophrenic in a cell. Erendira, however, escapes, in order to seek her true love in freedom. Which, however, can only be fulfilled through a crime. Because she still had two years to serve in prostitution, in order to compensate her grandmother, Erendira's lover poisons the old pimp […]. The old woman, instead of dying, dances with Ulise, in the last gasp of her life, so that the lovers believe that the poison had no effect. In the end, Erendira's lover stabs her several times with a knife, not expecting the effect of the poison.„ (Pașcu Balaci, ”Crișana”, October 2, 2000).

Distribution:

Grandmother:  Mariana Vasile
Erendira:  Angela Tanko
Rafaelo and the Fair Host:  Petre Panait
Ulysses:  Serban Borda
The Photographer and the Fair Man:  Ion Abrudan
The smugglers' boss:  Tiberiu Covaci
The widower:  Ion Tomorrow
The Driver, Blacaman, The First Monk:  Dorin Presecan
The Postman, The Second Soldier, The Second Monk, A Man at the Fair, The Second Groom:  Sebastian Wolf 
The Uruk Soldier, A Smuggler, The Third Monk, A Fair Man, The Third Groom, The First Indian, A Soldier:  Andrian Locovei
A smuggler, The fifth monk, The fifth groom, A fairground man, The second Indian:  Igor Lungu
The fourth soldier, The fourth monk, A man from the fair, The fourth groom:  Romeo Romitan
The Truck Driver, A Man from the Fair:  George Voinese
The groom with the horse's lip, the Drummer:  Ion Ruscut
The First Nun, The First Bride, A Prostitute, Death:  Mona Erhan
The second nun, The second bride, A prostitute:  Simona Nica
The Third Nun, The Third Bride, The Spider Woman:  Mariana Presecan
A woman at the fair:  Ileana Iurciuc
The adulterous husband:  Marcel Popa
The Circar:  Mircea Cosma
A child:  Tiberiu Covaci Jr.
In other roles:  Sorin Ciofu, Richard Balint, Pavel Sarghi, Alexandru Rusu, Oana Cernea, Zoltán Rézműves, Florian Chelu, Levente Movik, Noémi Buda, Florin Popescu, Gabriela Mariţan, Gheorghe Iernea, Alexandru Luca, Nicolae Segărceanu, Cristian Segărceanu, Adrian Pintea, Alexandru Rois, Florica Cighir

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