IT ALL STARTED WITH TARTUFFE...

In 1994, it was a historical moment that finally, after so many years, a Hungarian actors' class with a larger number was able to graduate from the Târgu-Mureș Theatre Academy. Their iconic final exam performance was broadcast even by the public television of Hungary. The significance of this moment was highlighted by the fact that the production of Molière’s Tartuffe was directed by Gábor Tompa, already then an internationally renowned stage-director and the Director of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, who put on a few months earlier the “Best Foreign Production of 1993” of Great Britain played by his company from Romania. Tompa contracted seven of the newly graduated actors, laying the foundation for his ambitious theatre reform plans, which he had first articulated immediately after the December 1989 revolution, when he was still serving as artistic director: “The aim is to create a European theatre.