Good Evening, Mr Wilde!

"Good Evening, Mr Wilde! is a perfect example of a well-made comedy. Built on the action of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the musical devised by Henry Mălineanu and Eugen Mirea drew large audiences in every one of its stagings. Its return to the attention of the Romanian theatre world, in this production at the State Jewish Theatre, calls for an aesthetic revisiting of the Victorian world the play mocks; the direction plays a second game, reading the subtleties of this comedy of manners and adding something of its own. A society this full of self-importance can only be shown by reaction - a detail easy enough to recognise today, for what the production will talk to us about is our own countless masks. And all of it carried by the most infectious music." (Andrei Măjeri, director)