by Ayn Rand
Translation: Horia Gârbea

Artistic direction: Alexandru Hausvater
Scenography: Vioara Bara
Choreography: Hugo Wolff
Music: Mircea Kiraly
Assistant director: Corina Cernea
Set design assistant: Oana Cernea
Premiere date: 29.06.2004

„"The Night of January 16" is a musical full of suspense and mystery, dynamism and color, based on a real case that took place in America in the 1930s. Young Karen Andre is accused of having killed her lover, one of the richest American businessmen, nicknamed the prince of the first financial empire in the world. The show captures three major dimensions: the trial with the hearing of witnesses and the pleadings of lawyers; the cabaret and the courtroom transformed into a cabaret; a reporter's story. Compared to the real world represented by the trial, the cabaret symbolizes the private life of each person, the doubling of personality, the falling of the mask. The elements related to the media plan refer to the distortion of reality by the press, which is always in search of the sensational, of explosive situations.

Although the businessman Faulkner is an absent character, the whole process actually tells his story, the story of a conqueror, a man of perfect inner freedom, who lives his life on the edge, ready at any moment to abandon his financial empire in order to live his love. By outlining such a character, "The Night of January 16th" also becomes an apology to America, which offers the space conducive to the development of such a modern romantic hero, ensuring freedom and the open path to the affirmation of the individual.

Distribution:

Karen Andre:  Mariana Presecan
Prosecutor Flint:  Elvira Platon Rîmbu
Stevens, defense attorney:  Suzana Macovei
Faulkner:  Andras Csaba MOLN
Judge Heath:  George Voinese
Reporter:  Marius Damian
Dr. Kirkland:  Petre Ghimbasan
John Hutchins:  Andrian Locovei
Homer van Fleet:  Daniel Vulcu
Elmer Sweeney:  Serban Borda
Magda Svenson:  Ileana Iurciuc
Nancy Lee Faulkner:  Angela Tanko
John Graham Whitfield:  Ion Abrudan
Jane Chandler:  Oana Rusu
Siegfried Jungquist:  Emil Sauciuc
Lawrence Regan:  Richard Balint
The cameraman:  Alexander Rusu