Comedy in three acts by Andrei Uspenski
Translation: Sonia Filip

Artistic direction: Valeriu Grama
Decor: Nagy Sándor
Costumes: Eliza Popescu
Premiere date: December 16, 1961

The main heroine of the play "The Girl with Freckles", Glasha Ivanovna, has recently finished her studies and, instead of leaving for the Siberian taiga with the Komsomol brigade to which she belongs, she stays in Moscow and gets involved in the control team of the new apartment blocks put into use. In Moscow she meets Alexei, whom she truly loves and with whom she understands how to forge her happiness. The moments of affirmation and fulfillment of this love give rise to pages of emotional lyrical vibration. The conflict of the play is not limited to a simple love story, however. Glasha's team in the taiga tends to consider her a deserter who has sought a better life. Her husband Alexei is tempted to see a whim in the insistence with which she stands up against the engineer Ivan Stepanovich Rubtsov, a skilled builder but less attentive to the quality of the works.

The freckle-faced girl does not perform heroic deeds and her struggle has no serious or rhetorical accents. Her actions are simple, and her gestures acquire symbolic value in a warm, enthusiastic and authentic comedy.

Distribution:

Alexei:  George Pintilescu
Roscina:  Lili Mihailescu
Rubtsov:  Octavian Uleu
Voice:  Anca Rosu
Zoya:  Simona Constantinescu
Misha:  John Martin

Prompter: Sofica Spoiala