- Victor Ion Popa
Victor Ion Popa (born July 29th, 1895 in
Călmăţui , a village in the Griviţa commune, in the former county ofTutova (Griviţa is now inGalaţi county ), inMoldavia ,Romania ---died March 30th, 1946 inBucharest ) was a Romanian dramatist.He went to
primary school in the village ofCălmăţui where his father was a teacher. AtIasi he finished his first five years of junior high/high school (Costache Negruzzi) and his last two years of high school at the National high school of Iasi, graduating in 1914. He enrolled in the Iasi Conservatory and for a time in theFacultatea de Drept .One of his most famous plays is "
Take , Ianke şi Cadâr " (1933), about a Romanian, a Romanian Jew, and a Turk, respectively. The play was set in Podeni, one of the neighborhoods ofBarlad .Plays:
*Muşcata din fereastră, 1928
*Take, Ianke şi Cadâr, 1933
*Acord familiar
*Cuiul lui Pepelea
*Razbunarea sufleurului
*Raspantia cea mareTeatrul Victor Ion Popa (the Victor Ion Popa Theatre) in Barlad was dedicated in his honor.
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