Theatre
Sfântul Mitică Blajinul
Not translated into English
Aurel Baranga · 1965
Synopsis
On 21 June, Mitică Blajinul, an employee in the documentation and archives department of a state institution, celebrates his sixtieth birthday and his twenty years with the firm; his colleague Adela Cosâmbescu, a typist born on the same day, has worked there just as long. The director, Ion Cristea, wants to retire Mitică and transfer Adela to a school thirty kilometres from Bucharest, in order to put two protégés in their places. With the help of kindly colleagues, the two employees devise a plan to frighten their superiors, according to the Târgu-Mureș National Theatre.
Context
The play was premiered in 1966 (in 1965 according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica); it is placed among those in which its author's own recurring characters return. Like his other comedies, it mocks bureaucracy, inertia and insincerity, and the party allowed these satires to be performed and published. In 1982 Nae Cosmescu made from it a filmed show for television, with Petre Gheorghiu, Stela Popescu and Amza Pellea, whose cast the critic Doina Papp praised; a Transylvanian stage revived it in 2022.
Who it is for
An office comedy in Romanian, still in copyright; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
According to Dumitru Stoica, a satire of the incompetence and indifference of civil servants that has kept its relevance.
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