The theater is often tempted to tame and adapt the classics, and the Regina Maria Theater, together with director Vlad Trifaș, takes on the courage to stage a Authentic Caragiale, which pulsates with the energy of the southern slum, where passions burst forth "fast forward", and the grotesque and humor naturally follow each other. For the Transylvanian audience, this incursion into the Caragiale universe acquires the force of a revelation: a lively, intense show, which refuses cosmeticization and brings to the surface both the fragility and the vitality of human typologies.

"Carnival's gentlemen", whose premiere will take place on September 24 and 25, 2025, at the Great Hall, bears his signature Vlad Trifas – direction, adaptation of the text and original music – and confirms once again the fruitful collaboration between him and the Iosif Vulcan Troupe. If in 2022 the show Tartuffe brought them international awards, now the team aims to bring Caragiale's comedy back to the stage in all its complexity: a farce of love entanglements, but also an x-ray of our contradictory nature.

The cast brings together famous names from the troupe, including Petre Ghimbășan and Șerban Borda, actors who also starred in the 2002 production, along with Ioana Dragoș Gajdo, Sorin Ionescu, Pavel Sîrghi, David Constantinescu, Adela Lazăr and Alina Leonte. The creative team is completed by Oana Cernea (scenography), Ionuț Aldea (light design) and Carina Bunea (assistant director).

Symbolically, the show also marks 70 years since the first performance of the permanent Romanian troupe in Oradea: A lost letter (1955). Then the actor Eugen Țugulea made his debut on stage, to whom the Regina Maria Theater would award a Diploma of Excellence for seven decades of theater.

Thus, between the memory of the institution and the energy of a contemporary staging, Carnival's gentlemen becomes a double act of courage: of a manager who reinforces the theater's connection with the classical repertoire and of a director who has the audacity to offer it to the Oradea audience in its unadorned, intense, southern form.