After the political changes of 1989, cultural life in Eastern Europe found itself in a particularly difficult situation; this did not escape the performing arts institutions in Târgu Mureș. The causes and consequences are diverse, but the essence of the process is undoubtedly a kind of discouragement of the audience. The continuous decline in the number of spectators also characterized the Studio Theatre, which had a slightly different status during this period, because it operated within the framework of higher education. The management at the time was particularly concerned with how to maintain the number of spectators. The university’s production tenders depended almost entirely on the Hungarian cultural support system. It was in this context that the decision was made to establish the Academic Workshop-Project as a creative research center within the institution (unnamed at the time); its first performance was the Arabian Night. The new dramaturgy practiced by Schimmelfennig had a fruitful effect not only on German theater directors, but also everywhere, including in theaters in the Hungarian-speaking area. Máté Szabó, invited from Budapest, threw himself into the screening of the stifling German night with all his young talent within the framework of the Academic Workshop, with the undisguised hope that this novelty would be the basic solution to the problem. The aim of the Academic Workshop-Project is to provide, in addition to the exam performances of the graduating students, continuous opportunities for the creative activity and experimentation of the teaching acting teachers and the artists working at the Târgu Mureș theatre company’s. The continuous operation of the scientific and artistic creative group of the Academic Workshop – officially recognized by the Romanian Accreditation Council – is an important indicator of the university’s financing; one performance per season created from independent sources was considered a novelty at the national level at that time.