Odeon - Saragosa




	Co-production SMART, Odeon Theatre and “Theatre der Welt/Berlin” Festival, under the aegis of THEOREM, a programme coordinated by “Festival d’Avignon” International premiere 24th of June 1999, at Hebbel Theatre, during the “Theatre der Welt” Berlin-Festival National premiere 8th of October 1999, Odeon Theatre CAST The hermit, sheikh Masud ……………..........…….MARIN MORARU Alfons……………………………………...…….….CRISTIAN IACOB Zibelda, the whore, the gypsy woman, Camilla, the nurse, Solomon’s daughter…………....................................………….MAIA MORGENSTERN / CRINA MURESAN Emina, the whore, the gypsy woman, Inesilla, the nurse, Solomon’s daughter…………………………….........................CAMELIA MAXIM Rebecca………..………………………...…………ANA CIONTEA / MIRELA DUMITRU The Dominican monk, the wandering Jew, Zoto, Pantalone…………………………...…..……SERBAN IONESCU Enrique de Sa, Mamun, Enrique Velasquez…......CONSTANTIN COJOCARU Pacheco, young Masud………………………....…MARIUS STANESCU Velasquez, priest of the Inquisition………………..IOAN BATINAS Lopez, Momo, Felipe, The Commander, a Jew, The Pharisee………………..………...........MIRCEA CONSTANTINESCU Alfons’ father, the cabalist…………………………MARIAN GHENEA The French colonel, Monaldi, Brighella, Don Sancho, a Jew…………………………….…..IONEL MIHAILESCU The head of the gypsies, a Dominican mon…...…LIVIU TIMUS Hierro, Marquise Feltri, Carlos, The Marquise of Folencour………………………..DAN BADARAU Laetitia, the Inquisitor, the nurse……………….....VIRGINIA ROGIN Alfons’ mother, Masud’s mother………………..…OANA STEFANESCU Mosquito, duelist, Arlecchino…………………..….MARIAN LEPADATU The inkeeper, Inquisition monk……………….…...LAURENTIU LAZAR Father Velez, Cicio, Germanus…………………...DIMITRII BOGOMAZ Blanca, Inquisition monk…………………………..ELVIRA DEATCU The twins of the zodiac…................................……TOADER TOMOIOAGA, LUCIAN ALEXA Stage direction……………………..……………..ALEXANDRU DABIJA Costumes……………………………......………..JANINE FASHION DESIGN Stage designer…….............................…………...IRINA SOLOMON, DRAGOS BUHAGIAR

	Jan Potocki's "The Manuscript found in Saragosa" is written using the pattern from 1001 Nights. It's a vast history, made up of short tales. A captain in the Wallon guard, young Alfons van Worden crosses France, in order to get to the king of Spain. During an endless journey, he has numerous adventures:he is forsaken by the servants in a wild, deserted county, he finds an inn where is visited by two Musliim sisters who pretend they are his cousins, but turn out to be demons. After a love night, Alfons wakes up under two people that have been hanged. He sets out and, in his journey, meets people who had similar extraordinary experience . At the end of the second millenium, humanity's problems bear a single name: the conflict between the representatives of the three monotheistic religion:the christians, the jews and the muslims. SARAGOSA talks about hope and illusion. About the hope that life is no illusion and about the illusion that we can change reality, that man can control the world and his own destiny.