Bitter comedy in three acts by G.M.Zamfirescu

Artistic director: Dan Alecsandrescu
Sets: Radu Penciulescu
Costumes: Eliza Popescu
Premiere date: April 25, 1958

Subtitled "bitter comedy", the play "Ion Anapoda" presents a perennial theme: the search for happiness. Each character in the play fights to achieve this ideal through their own means, characteristic of their way of being. Stăvăroaia searches for it in the memories of her past, always invoking the name of her late husband, a major of reds; Mioara and Valter seek happiness through success. Ion and Frosa are exceptions in this landscape. Ion is a clerk at a bank in Bucharest; for the others, he is an "anapoda" man, who does not use deceptions and subtleties and who does not even have a name: he is "he". Frosa is a maid in the house of the widow Străvăroaia and is forced by her masters and others to wear a mask, not to be herself. Through Ion, she begins to understand herself and to seek beauty. Together, the two find the path to achieving happiness through love, honor, and humanity.

Distribution:

Stavaroaia:  Lili Mihailescu
Little girl:  Cristina Tacoi
Frog:  Natalia Lefescu
Ion:  Marcel Segărceanu
Walter:  Andrei Bursaci, Valentin Avrigeanu
Aristotle:  Constantin Simionescu 
Icu Danicel:  Al.Mitea, Gheorghe V. Gheorghe

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Agy Segărceanu/Cornelia Brezeanu