National Theatre

The first attempt in founding The National Theatre in Moldavia dates only since 1816, when Gheorghe Asachi, still young than and with a special culture, which he had aquired in most foreign cities, by fighting against the landowner's prejudices, he was the first one to organise theatrical performances in Romanian. He first translated and found a few foreign plays, some of the best at that time. Than with great insistence he persuaded more nobles to allow their sons to perform in his plays.Asachi, with his expenses, founded a society theatre, in hetman's Costachi Ghica houses, across the Metropholitan church, which later on became Nagroponti and Paltisanschi's estates. He, who was not only a scene painter but also a mechanic he turned his house into a factory. The main curtain was whitewashed after a patern from Rome and presented the image of Apolon with the Muses, who stretched his hand to raise Moldavia.Therefore, at 27 december in the same year, was performed the first theatre play in Romanian: Mirtil and Hloe, a pastorel in one act, processed by Asachi himself, after Gessner and Florin. The children of nobles Ghica and Sturza played the roles in this play, who were: madam Subin, born Ghica, in the role of Hloe, the prince Ghica in the role of Mirtil and Costachi Sturza in the role of Lizis, reverer to Amor.