The project aims to research a lesser-known period of the history of the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj, the 1950s, through the analysis of previously unresearched sources, focusing both on local initiatives and practices as well as the strategies of the sovietization of culture on a state level. Besides understanding the case of the theatre of Cluj in the context of the network of theatres in Romania, I attempt a comparison with the practices of theatres in Hungary from the same period.