Play in two parts by Mircea Bradu
Absolute premiere

Artistic direction: Sergiu Savin
Scenography: T.Th.Ciupe
Musical illustration: Erasmus Minchevici
Premiere date: December 17, 1985

"A man who many years ago left not only his family, but also his country, returns among his own, trying to tie the long-severed threads. In place of the children of the past, he is greeted by mature people who have made or are trying to make a point in life, invested not only with the right, but also with the ability to judge and choose. The wife, who waited for him with love, despite a fictitious marriage of convenience, made to shelter her children from the inconveniences caused by a defector father, does not understand how to abandon her beliefs or cut ties with what was the very reason for her existence. This is how it happens that after the euphoria of the reunion, after the decantation of what is authentic and what is just hypertrophied kindness in the relations between the returnee and those at home, it begins to be seen that over the chasm created by time, distance, but especially by different ways of seeing the world, they fail to to build lasting bridges, with only temporary ones that will give way at the first more serious demands. In the end, Alexandru (the "prodigal father") will return to his own, older with experience and weaker from a disappointment, that of not having managed to convince any of his loved ones to follow him, they remaining insensitive to the temptations offered and steadfast in the belief that happiness cannot be achieved with the roots cut off." (Dumitru Chirilă, "Familia", December 1985).

Distribution:

Alexander:  Ion Tomorrow
Mary:  Simona Constantinescu
Anda:  Cristina Schiopu
Ovid:  Ion Abrudan
Tudor:  Dan Badarau
Michael:  Daniel Vulcu
Matthew:  Eugen Harizomenov
Age:  Anca Miere Chirilă
Christina:  Juliana Chelu

Technical director: Mărioara Goina
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Valentin Bodonea