Mihai Eminescu National Theatre of Moldova: 100th anniversary of foundation

Chisinau, 24 May /MOLDPRES/ - The 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre (TNME) with status of national theatre will be marked on 6 October. The institution’s foundation was influenced by more initiatives coming from personalities of the Romanian culture and culture institutions. 

Contacted by MOLDPRES, TNME director Petru Hadarca said that, while the residents from the region between the Prut and Dniester rivers had been gradually integrating in a European pace of living, through Romanian economic, social and cultural processes, the communism was being edified with class hatred and revolutionary enthusiasm and the world revolution was forcibly prepared to the east of Dniester. While the Bolshevik police commissioners were using the red tactics and were urging to fiery hatred against rich men and against people educated in bourgeois universities, young people were seduced by the illusion of a new life and world.     

”In 1928, a group of 18 young people, animated by revolutionary enthusiasm and passion for theatre, founded a troupe of theatre of amateurs in the Ukrainian settlement of Balta, which became the capital of the newly-created Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist republic (RASSM). In autumn of 1933, after one year and a half of training at the Institute of Music and Drama from Odessa, the graduates founded the Moldovan Theatre from Tiraspol. The Bolshevik authorities called it the First Moldovan Theatre. The event took place on the period when the theory with two distinct languages, Moldovan and Romanian, was not still worked out and the Bolshevik commissioners adopted the strategy of switch to the Latin script, so that through this script, and with bayonets, to start the revolution in Romania too. The theatre was part of this strategy,’’ the TNME director noted.         

In 1940, after following the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, the territory between the Dniester and Prut river was ceded to the Soviet empire, some of the actors from Tiraspol were brought to Chisinau.

The schedule of the 2021 Centenary Year of the Chisinau-based Mihai Eminescu Theatre is carried out under the high patronage of President Maia Sandu and the one of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.