On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the declaration of Moldova’s Independence, IPN News Agency decided to depict the portrait of the current Republic of Moldova. For the purpose, it provoked a number of people, including state officials, politicians, businessmen, civil rights activists and persons without posts and titles, but who have what to say. The generic picture is called “Thoughts about and for Moldova”.
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Ghenadie Galca, an actor of the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu”: the Republic of Moldova is a small country that managed to keep a nuance of naturalness possibly because it is not ‘absorbed’ too much by the European Union.
The Republic of Moldova is like a miss who came from countryside and realized at a certain moment that she is in a big town and is fully unprepared for urban life and for the challenges that she can face. Evidently, it is hard. Actor Ghenadie Galca hopes that this ‘miss’ will grow up at a certain moment and will learn from this experience so that she is not overwhelmed by the urban tumult and whirlpool.
When the Independence was proclaimed, Ghenadie Galca was 11. “I do not remember very well what happened before... I remember being a pioneer for a month or two. One day I realized that only I was wearing that cravat at the neck. When I approached a mate and asked him where his cravat was, he told me that the cravats should no longer be worn and I then realized that something changed,” said the actor.
Independence is Moldova’s biggest accomplishment so far. With the rapprochement with the European Union, the row of accomplishments ends, considers the actor. “There are yet more failures regretfully. First of all, we haven’t yet defined the national idea of our state, the Republic of Moldova. We do not have a common thing that would define us as a nation,” stated Ghenadie Galca.
Another problem is the fact that the Moldovan people haven’t yet decided which the country’s language is. “We have a national anthem dedicated to our language, but couldn’t yet decide how our language is called. These are the big questions to which we should find answers first of all,” said the actor.
Ghenadie Galca wasn’t at the theater before the Independence, but from what his colleagues told him he understood that this area now enjoys much greater openness. However, the actors are now freer to express themselves only apparently. Apparently because a kind of censorship continues to exist and this is probably more perverse. Until 1991, most of the artists understood the subtext of particular things said on the stage. Now we are a much more divided society and therefore the nuances take different shapes depending on who is in power too, and things deviate somehow.
According to the actor, the spectators are divided into two categories – spectators who come after amusement and spectators who come out of necessity. The first come to forget about particular political and social problems witnessed in the county. The others feel that particular themes are discussed here and come to take part in the artistic moment of that show, which offers them satisfaction.
The actor considers that some of people of Moldova remained dependent on the nostalgia for the Soviet Union. “If we do not continue to invest in education, we risk remaining so for a long time,” said Ghenadie Galca. In this regard, the actor gave a positive example – the example of the Baltic States that do much better because they assumed the fact that they were in the Soviet Union, but managed to go on separately. There, they analyze things in perspective and thus succeed.
Ghenadie Galca wants the next generations to live in a country where there are no questions without answers. “I see the Republic of Moldova as a small, but consolidated state. If we speak about an ideal country, I think it will be closer to the Estonian model – people who accepted the conditions because they realized the accomplishments and problems of their country and tried to find solutions. I would like Moldova to also reach such a kind of maturity,” he stated.
In 10-15 years, the Republic of Moldova should be a country where the law is law for everyone, not only for a particular section of the population, where the artists have what to say by what they do, where the children are brought up in safety and enjoy correct education, where our grandparents and parents have their brothers, sisters, children and grandchildren near.
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Ghenadie Galca graduated from the State University of Arts, the specialty of theater and film acting. He has worked at the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu” since 2001.
Anastasia Rusu, IPN
The articles of the series “Thoughts about and for Moldova” started to be published on July 18. Among the protagonists are: Dumitru Alaiba, Iurie Ciocan, Ana-Maria Tulea, Ion Manole,Olga Gagauz, Stella Ciobanu, Iurie Leanca, Victor Parlicov, Doru Curoşu, Igor Meriacre, Valeria Seican, Ciprian Raetski, Andrei Nastase Arcadie BarbroAie, Nicolae Botgros, Igor Dodon, Eugen Doga, Iulia Iabanji, Petru Macovei, Mariana Onceanu Hadarca, Maia Sandu etc.
