Meeting of Romanian National Theatres in Chisinau ends with play by theatre from Constanta

Chisinau, 29 September /MOLDPRES/ - The sixth issue of the Meeting of Romanian National Theatres, held in Chisinau on 15-28 September, within the 100th season of the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre (TNME), ended with a play titled, Maria Tanase. A Tale, by Carmen Lidia Vidu from the State Theatre of Constanta, Romania, on 28 September evening. On the same day, the concerned theatre also presented a play titled, Games in the back yard, stage management by Diana Mititelu.       

Contacted by MOLDPRES, a theatre critic, literary secretary of TNME  Larisa Turea said that the play, Maria Tanase. A Tale, was a one woman show presenting a version about the life of the famous singer Maria Tanase, with aspects of her personality, which are less known.  

According to the director of the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre Petru Hadarca, the 2021 year issue of the theatres’ meeting was under the spiritual aura of the former culture minister of Romania, Ion Caramitru, who has recently passed away. ‘’This theatre feast, generously backed by the Romanian Cultural Institute, turned into a true platform of the cultural dialogue, giving artists and the audience chances to integrate and connect to the creating and innovating flows of the Romanian and European theatrical art,’’ Petru Hadarca also said.    

The sixth issue of the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres was inaugurated on 15 September with the first performance of a play titled, The History of Communism Told to Mentally Sick, by Matei Visniec, stage management of Cristian Hadji-Culea.   

The first issue of the Meeting of the Romanian National Theatres took place in 2014 and the project’s initiator is Petru Hadarca.