Comedy in two parts by Dario Fo
Translation: Angela Ioan

Artistic direction: Sergiu Savin
Scenography: Eliza Popescu
Premiere date: March 3, 1977

In "The Seventh Commandment: Steal a Little Less", Dario Fo, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, recovers the modalities of popular farce, vaudeville and commedia dell'arte, incorporating the modern tradition of Pirandello and Brecht, as well as elements from the theater of the absurd. The action of the play written in 1964 evokes the great trials that were taking place in Italy at that time against officials who embezzled the state. The plot of the play summarizes the path of a woman - a gravedigger - from naivety and lack of experience to understanding a society in which all kinds of swindlers, dishonest businessmen, and prostitutes evolve. The action takes place in the warehouse of a cemetery and in an asylum for the insane, the latter being the only people who live happily in the surrounding reality precisely because they lack a correct understanding of it. A complex play, full of verve, a mixture of comedy, polemic and political-social satire.

Distribution:

Aeneas:  Mariana Neagu
Mr:  Laurian Jivan
The Lord's Wife:  Simona Constantinescu
The Professor and the Gravedigger I:  Ion Abrudan
The Thief and the Gravedigger II:  Radu Vaida
The Judge and the Gravedigger III:  Eugen Harizomenov, Eugen Ţugulea, Marcel Popa
The Commander and the Gravedigger IV:  Nicolae Barosan
Cocota:  Alla Tautu
Cocota I and Călugăriţa II:  Ileana Iurciuc
Cocota II and Călugăriţa I:  Mariana Vasile
The director:  Ion Tomorrow
The Commissioner:  Marcel Segărceanu
Mother Superior:  Anca Miere Chirilă
His Excellency:  Nicholas Thomas
The guard:  Grig Schiţcu 
The guard's wife:  Doina Urlățeanu

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Florence Manea
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Dorel Olea