Comedy in three acts by Tudor Muşatescu

Artistic director: Ion Cojar
Assistant director: Eugen Harizomenov
Scenography: Camelia Micu
Musical illustration: Romeo Chelaru
Premiere date: March 1, 1983

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 on 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 states 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:

Spirache Necsulescu:  Nicholas Thomas 
Dacia:  Alla Tautu
Chiriachiţa:  Anca Miere Chirilă
Sarmisegetusa:  Mariana Neagu
Gene:  Cristina Schiopu
Trajan:  Nicolae Barosan
Decebalus:  Emil Sauciuc
Peter Dinu:  Ion Abrudan
Gigi Stamatescu:  Tiberiu Covaci
Radulescu Nercea:  Eugen Harizomenov
Procopius:  Marcel Segărceanu
Neighbor:  Valentin Avrigeanu
The photographer:  Laurian Jivan
Nurse:  Mariana Vasile
The maid:  Florence Manea

Technical director: Elena Varlam
Prompter: Florence Szabo
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Dorel Olea