Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais
Translation: I.Stroescu and Anda Boldur

Artistic director: Dan Alecsandrescu
Scenography: Eliza Popescu
Premiere date: July 14, 1961

The most famous play in the trilogy created by Beaumarchais at the end of the 18th century, "The Marriage of Figaro", unfolds at a brisk pace the new adventures of the scoundrel Figaro, a character who had made his entrance on the literary scene through the comedy "The Barber of Seville", more than ten years earlier.

Figaro, Count Almaviva's valet, wants to marry Suzane, Countess Almaviva's first maid. The Count, who is not indifferent to the young maid's daughter-in-law and claims his "right as a lord", seeks to prevent this marriage with the help of Marceline, who tries to force Figaro to marry her in exchange for old debts. Cherubin, the Count's page, a teenager in the early stages of sentimental love, courts Fanchette, the gardener's daughter, but at the same time is interested in Countess Almaviva herself. She learns that her husband tried to seduce Suzane and devises a plan of revenge.

On this canvas of sentimental intrigue, the French playwright imagines an entire avalanche of tricks, transvestites, confusions, anonymous notes and crossed meetings so that, at a certain point, the Count strives to seduce his own wife, while Figaro believes himself deceived from the first day of their marriage.

In the end, all the confusions are cleared up, and Figaro discovers his true parents in the persons of Marcelline and Bartholo. Everyone is finally reconciled with everyone else, and even if the reconciliation is a formal one, the play ends with a cheerful vaudeville of the nuptial ceremony.

Distribution:

Count Almaviva:  Ricardo Colbert
Countess:  Simona Constantinescu
Figaro:  Jean Sandulescu
Susanne:  Geta Iancu, Sofica Albu
Marceline:  Maud Mary
Antonio:  Constantin Adamovici, Valentin Avrigeanu
Fanchette:  Doina Ioja Vasiu
Cherub:  Oana Diamandi
Bartholomew:  John the Baptist
Bases:  Constantin Simionescu
Don Gusman Brid'Oison:  Marcel Segărceanu
Double Main:  George V. George
The product:  Gheorghe Angheluta
A young shepherdess:  Anca Miere Chirilă
Pedrille:  Gelu Ivascu, Grig Schitcu

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Elena Varlam Pintilescu