Theater/comedy
- PREMIERE „The Perfect System"-
28 October 2024, 19:00
National Theatre "Marin Sorescu" Craiova
Our late artist and director Ion Caramitru wanted to direct this play and, coincidentally, another director with Aromanian roots, Toma Enache, staged the work of Georges Feydeau, who is very well known in our country for another masterpiece „La puce à l'oreille – A Flea in Her Ear".
Georges Feydeau (1862 - 1921) was a French playwright from the period known as La Belle Époque, known for his farces and vaudevilles.
Cast :
Angèle – Monica Davidescu
Ribadier – Aurelian Temisan
Thommereux – Silviu Biris
Savinet (Sauvignion) – Ovidiu Cuncea
Gusman – Cosmin Vîjeu / Vasile Revnic
Sophie – Kira Hagi
Directed by — Toma Enache
The critic from the newspaper Le Figaro (from the time of its premiere in 1892), Henry Fouquier, considered the play „perhaps the most solidly constructed and with the most ingenious plot of all the plays Maurice Feydeau has given us" and that Feydeau wove a farce with comedy and fantasy. A comment from the same newspaper said: „We saw, from the beginning to the end of the evening, only bright faces, beautiful eyes wet with tears of joy, shoulders shaking with so much laughter, and many applauses".
After Feydeau's death in 1921, his plays suffered years of neglect until interest in them revived in the 1940s. Le Système Ribadier was restaged in 1963 in a production directed by Jacques François. The online magazine „Les Archives du Spectacle" notes that up to now, 15 different productions of the play have been performed in Paris and other cities in France, including a 2007 production at the Théâtre Montparnasse, which was filmed for television, and dozens of adaptations around the world.
Over time, the play has been adopted and successfully presented at the most successful theaters worldwide. First in Berlin in 1893. An English adaptation, „His Little Dodge" was presented in London in 1896, running for 81 performances. The same version played in New York the following year by Edward E. Rice's company. An adaptation called „Monsieur Ribadier's System" was offered to the American public in 1979, starring Roderick Cook as Ribadier. A 2009 version titled „Where There's a Will", was presented on a British tour directed by the renowned British director Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall, receiving very warm reviews. To date, the play has been successfully performed on all meridians of the world.
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