Essay

13.March 2025. Svetislav Jovanov

Games and reenactments

Should theaters be playing plays while a very different kind of theater is taking place in the squares, streets and roads of this country

Strike

10.February 2025. S.Ć.

Actors: Protest walk from theater to theater

On Tuesday, the second day of the strike, the acting ensembles will go around the theaters in Belgrade with a protest walk, and will stop in front of the Ministry of Labor.

Protest

20.January 2025. Sonja Ciric

Theaters decide on suspension of work

It is expected that representatives of the theater and the presidency of the Association of Dramatic Artists will decide tomorrow whether and in what way to suspend work

Vranje

24.December 2024. S.Ć.

Silencing the actors: The canceled play "The Seagull"

The management of the theater in Vranje canceled the performance of the play "The Seagull" allegedly due to technical reasons, as soon as it found out that the actors would publicly support the students. Before Vranje, the management of the National Theater in Belgrade did not like the fact that the actors expressed their opinion publicly

Reacting

14.December 2024. S.Ć.

Actors: Targeting is against our stance on dissent

The Association of Dramatic Actors reacted to the attack by the director Stevan Filipović on the actor Ivan Bosiljčić: the targeting is beyond the principled position of the Association that everyone has the right to a different opinion and to neutrality

The building of the National Theater in Belgrade

Protests in Serbia

13.December 2024. TS

The actors join the student protest

The Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia supported the student protests and stated that if the students' demands are not met by December 21, they will invite their colleagues to take further steps

Culture and politics

30.March 2024. Sonja Ciric

The members of the Working Group solving artists' problems are not artists

The Belgrade Philharmonic does not have a representative in the Working Group, which primarily solves the material problems of all artists in Serbia. The same goes for other artists. This is proof that the Working Group was not formed with the real intention and desire to solve the problems of artists, but only to get the job done - says Darko Tomović, president of the Actors' Union of Serbia.

Cinema: Oppenheimer

26.July 2023 Đorđe Bajić

Apocalypse at the push of a button

Oppenheimer is the story of a man who put a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of politicians, a bomb the likes of which the world had never seen before. Playing with time flows, black and white and color photography, Nolan slowly builds his story. The three-hour duration of the film should give him enough space to say and show everything he wants. However, a lot of it is just skimmed over

A strike in Hollywood

14.July 2023 MJ

Strike in Hollywood: Everything stops, screenwriters and actors have joined

Both writers and actors say technological changes in the industry are forcing them to negotiate very hard for significant changes to their contracts. The new era of digital streaming has seen their earnings drop dramatically, they say. The development of artificial intelligence only adds to existing concerns.

Threats to actors

12.June 2023 Z.S.

Miloš Biković with his colleagues: I stand in line with them

Two videos were published on Twitter under the pseudonym "Enemy of the People" in which numerous actors were "called" by their first and last names. On this occasion, their colleague Miloš Biković sent their support, and the Movement of Free Citizens called on the prosecution to act urgently