Fifth issue of Meeting of Romanian National Theatres inaugurated in Moldovan capital

Chisinau, 17 September /MOLDPRES/ - The fifth issue of the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres, held in Chisinau on 16-29 September, was inaugurated within the 98 season of the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre (TNME) on 16 September.      

The event is organized by TNME with the support of the Education, Culture and Research Ministry of Moldova, Culture and National Identity Ministry of Romania, Bucharest-based Romanian Cultural Institute and the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Cultural Institute from Chisinau, Chisinau city hall and the Creative Europe project.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, TNME director general Petru Hadarca said that 12 theatres from Romania, Moldova and Serbia participated in the 2019 edition of the Meeting.

„The Strija National Theatre from Serbia participates in the event for the first time ever. We will have two radio plays for the first time; the plays are made by our actors along with those from Bucharest, in the memory of soprano Anastasia Dicescu, the first director of the Chisinau-based Conservatoire. On 21 September, actors from Targu-Mures will present a literary and musical recital on the Eugen Doga pedestrian street and on 27 September, the TNME troupe, along with the theatre’s orchestra, will give a show at the National Art Museum of Moldova. We will also pay homage to actors Ninela Caranfil, Nicolae Darie and Iurie Negoita at their 50th anniversary of work,” Petru Hadarca also said.    

Attending the event, Education, Culture and Research Minister Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei stressed that the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres was an exceptional cultural event and an action bringing people together.  

For his part, the director of the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Cultural Institute from Chisinau, Valeriu Matei, said that each issue of the Meeting came with novelties and its cultural area was extended also in other halls for plays. ”I am glad that, each year, we manage to support more Romanian theatres to come with plays to Chisinau, to make happy the local audience with what the Romanian theatres from Bucharest Timisoara, Cluj, Targu-Mures, Iasi or Craiova produce. Thus, on these days, Chisinau becomes the theatre centre of the entire Romanian space,” Valeriu Matei said.

In the context, Romania’s Ambassador to Moldova Daniel Ionita said that the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres was a real “cultural feast” and those due to benefit from this cultural interaction are the consumers of art and beauty.   

The acting president of the Bucharest-based Romanian Cultural Institute, Mirel Talos, said that this important cultural event represented, in fact, ”a theatre banquet.”

A painting exhibition of fine artist Tudor Zbarnea was inaugurated at the Meeting. According to the head of the Fine Artists Union of Moldova, Dumitru Bolboceanu, said that Tudor Zbarnea had become an ambassador of culture.    

“The fifth issue of the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres was opened with a play titled Dosarele Siberiei (The Files of Siberia), scenario by Petru Hadarca and Mariana Hadarca, made according to memories by Ecaterina Chele, Margareta Camartan-Spanu and Ion Moraru. The Meeting will end with the play, The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov, stage management of Alexandru Cozub, on 29 September.     

The first meeting of the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres took place in 2014.