Theatres

Theatrum was established on December 8, 1994 by the students and lecturers of the Chair of Theatre of the Estonian Institute of Humanities (Lembit Peterson, Juhan Viiding) and the participants of the theatre programme of the Old Town Education College. The substantive activities of the non-profit association Studio THEATRUM, which has ended its activities today, are continued by the Theatrum Foundation, which was founded on September 8, 2005.

The main aim of Theatrum are:

• to support and continue the creative and methodological research of the most important theatre-makers of this century in the field of directing and acting techniques, which would help to find tools and playful forms that are comprehensible to today's spectators for the performance of classical dramaturgy and the transmission of its values;
• to immerse oneself, through dramatic and other texts, in the spiritual, intellectual and emotional worlds of different eras, and to preserve their spiritual values through educational and cultural activities;
• to learn about and creatively develop the early theatrical tradition of the Occident, linking it to what is valuable and understandable in the world's theatrical tradition as a whole, searching for cross-cultural connections.

The artistic manager of Theatrum is Lembit Peterson, the theatre is led by Tarmo Song and Katrin Raie.