The Living Corpse
The company also registered success when, in late 1925, it decided to reinstate "The Deluge" as its headliner. Apparently, the production was the work of several directors, and underwent significant changes from one staging to another, in both direction and assignment of roles. It earned further praise from critics, especially after Luba Kadison replaced Orleska in the play's sole female role. (Buloff and Leib Kadison, who had been assigned the title roles in the original variant, had by then withdrawn.) "Der zinger fun zayn troyer" and "The Deluge" were followed by successful Bucharest productions of David Pinsky's "Melech David un zaine Froien" ("King David and His Women") and Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse". Pressured, in part, by a 32% tax on performances by foreign troupes, by the end of 1925, the troupe had decided to reconstitute themselves as a Bucharest-based troupe, taking the Romanian-language name "Dramă şi Comedie".