Comedy in three acts by Tudor Muşatescu

Artistic director: Valentin Avrigeanu
Decor: Gheorghe Oriold
Premiere date: December 31, 1956

The action of the play "Titanic Waltz" takes place in a provincial town where Spirache, a clerk at the prefecture, leads a modest life with his family, consisting of his wife (Dacia), two sons (Traian and Decebal), two daughters (Miza and Gena, from a previous marriage) and his mother-in-law (Chiriachiţa). The family's only hope of enrichment is represented by the death of Uncle Tache, Spirache's brother. As Laura Pavel observes, the metaphorical title refers to the reversal of the situation that triggers the "waltz" of the play's family, love and political tribulations: the shipwreck of the ship Tracia (a parodic local version of the Titanic), in which Uncle Tache dies. As a result of the inheritance, the family rises in the social ladder, becomes wealthy, adopts aristocratic habits, and the women aspire to a deputy position for Spirache, being even ready to secretly buy this position.

A belatedly discovered testamentary clause mentions that Tache's fortune was not directed correctly, but that it should have been granted to the first heir, that is, Miza's newborn child, taken over by Gena, in order to save her sister's honor. The end of the play presents, in a mirror, the love stories of the two girls: Miza will marry Lieutenant Stamate, and Gena with Petru Dinu. It is also revealed that Spirache had known from the first moment about his daughters' loves and that he had arranged things in the happiest way possible (including inserting a false clause in the will). Thus, the character who is apparently the most erased and oppressed by the family turns out to be the most influential, and the play ends in the most perfect happy ending, with a photograph of the now happy family.

Distribution:

Spiracles:  Dorel Urlăţeanu, Aurel Decu
Dacia:  Lili Mihailescu
Chiriachiţa:  Stefania Popescu
Stake:  Alla Tautu, Lucy Chevalier
Gene:  Cristina Tacoi
Trajan:  Andrei Bursaci 
Decebal: the student Traian Ilie
Peter Dinu:  Eugen Nagy
Captain Stamatescu:  Septimiu Pop, Jean Sandulescu
Radulescu-Nercea:  Valentin Avrigeanu, Gheorghe V. Gheorghe
Emilian Procopiu:  Misu Vladimir 
Neighbor:  Eugen Tugulea
A photographer:  Radu Reisel
Maid:  Elena Drozd, Rodica Schuller
Nurse:  Doina Ioja Vasiu, Cornelia Brezeanu

Technical direction: Al.Mitea
Prompter: Cornelia Brezeanu