Victor Ion Popa

Victor Ion Popa (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈviktor iˈon ˈpopa]; July 29, 1895 in Călmăţui, a village in the Griviţa commune, in the former Tutova County (Griviţa is now in Galați County), in Moldavia, Romania – March 30, 1946 in Bucharest) was a Romanian dramatist.

He went to primary school in the village of Călmăţui where his father was a teacher. At Iaşi 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 Iaşi, graduating in 1914. He enrolled in the Iaşi Conservatory and for a time in the Law faculty.

One of his most famous plays is Take, Ianke şi Cadîr (1933), about a Romanian, a Romanian Jew, and a Turk, respectively. The play was set in Podeni, one of the neighborhoods of Bârlad.

Plays:

Ciuta, 1922
Muşcata din fereastră, 1928
Take, Ianke şi Cadîr, 1933
Acord familiar
Cuiul lui Pepelea
Răzbunarea sufleurului
Răspântia cea mare

Teatrul Victor Ion Popa (the Victor Ion Popa Theatre) in Bârlad was dedicated in his honor.

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