by Mihail Sebastian

Artistic director: Radu Nichifor
Scenography: Vioara Bara
Premiere date: April 19, 2003

The play "The Holiday Game" brings to the stage six ordinary characters, who spend their "month of freedom", that is, their vacation, at the Weber villa, located somewhere in the Ciuc Mountains. They embody types and characters of everyday life from anywhere and at any time: the young woman (Corina), the cowherd woman, at a critical age (Madame Vintilă), the teenager (Jeff), the small clerk (Bogoiu), the military man (Major). The peaceful, idyllic atmosphere of mutual tolerance is disturbed by the appearance of Ștefan Valeriu, who plays the "ferocious", the "mitocan", not greeting or answering when spoken to, doing everything to seem unpleasant. He also breaks the telephone and the radio, hides the sign of the guesthouse so that the bus will not stop, destroying all the gates of communication with the outside world. In this newly established framework, "lessons in laziness" are carried out, with a visible therapeutic purpose: tired of life and daily routine, man must follow an unusual spiritual detoxification cure, a game of reverie, a detachment from immediate circumstances. The heroes escape from the world of immediate conventions to another world, where mystery, oblivion, magic and dreams await them.

Distribution:

Mr. Bogoiu:  Ion Abrudan
Stefan Valeriu:   Dorin Presecan
Madame Vintila:   Elvira Platon Rîmbu
The Major:   Doru Firte
Corina:  Angela Tanko
Jeff:   Richard Balint
Agnes:  Codruta Ureche
A mechanic:   Petre Ghimbasan
A traveler:  George Voinese
His wife:   Mariana Vasile
Miss Weber:  Geo Dinescu

Technical director: Ofelia Fîrte
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lights: Sorin Precup, Sándor Attila Nagy
Sound: Sorin Domide