According to research by the Center for Empirical Studies of the Culture of Southeast Europe, 70 to 90 percent of the population of Serbia did not go to cinemas, theaters, classical and rock music concerts, and exhibitions for half a year.
Bulgarian nationalist organizations and the Union of Bulgarian Writers clashed with the world-famous actor and director John Malkovich, who is currently staging Bernard Shaw's "Arms and Man" in Sofia. They claim that the 120-year-old play is "anti-Bulgarian" and want it removed from the repertoire
As the family stories grew into each other, so did the material for the play. The structure of that play was organically linked to the process of its creation. The overall impression of the play has something of the structure of a novel One hundred years of solitude - the individual stories intersect in such a way that the reader in the novel, and the viewer in the play, can hardly "grasp" all its branches, but feels the whole very well
"I don't think women can threaten men in any segment of life. What can happen is a change in the relationship of power in a marriage or relationship, today when women are economically independent"
A man's tear,
based on motifs from AP Chekhov's one-act plays
directed by Aleksandar Popovski
Yugoslav Drama Theater
Neva Lukić and Viktor Radonjić: P(j)eschanik
directed by Jasmina Večanski Kujundžić
Free tickets for the 52nd "Ex Teatar" Fest" in Pančevo sold out in the blink of an eye, which shows for the umpteenth time that the people of Pančevo need a theater
This year's Bitef began very dynamically from the very opening and was what we think Bitef should be - a festival that brings together creative, innovative and socially aware artists who reflect on the relationship between theater and contemporary society.
Sofia Dimitrijević: rake
director Dajana Josipović
Belgrade Drama Theatre, Summer Scene
One of the greatest actors of all time lost his balance during an intense fight scene between his character John Falstaff and the Prince of Wales and Henry Percy
"In all the choices I make, the theater always wins." I turn for the theater, at every crossroads. Everything is subordinated to him, that's why I say I hate him. I hate that it is always more important to me than myself" says Minja Bogavac on the occasion of her autobiographical performance/lecture "I hate the theater"
Director Marina Kovačević has been preparing plays for years - in prisons. What does it look like when convicts become actors and why does it somehow bring them back into society
The crew of the play "The Book of Milutin" of the Zvezdara Theater was not allowed to cross the Jarinje administrative crossing, the theater's management announced. Actor Nenad Jezdić points out that this is an uncivilized, anti-cultural and anti-theatrical act, but that this decision does not surprise him.
Director Sanja Mitrović introduces a new metaphor that is compatible with the metaphor of the land, which is the forest, in her staging of the play at Atelier 212. The forest grows out of the ground, and the roots of the trees hold the ground and prevent landslides. The forest is also a complex ecosystem full of predators and their victims, which is being destroyed by the biggest predator on Earth - man himself. Symbolically speaking, the forest also represents our subconscious, everything that is threatened and dangerous
"New Narrative", a theater study by Marina Milivojević Madjarev, examines how playwrights, writing about the past, influence the change of its perception in the present, and thereby indirectly the present itself, creating a new narrative
Today, when socialism has been put to rest for a long time and when the public media space insists on bizarre things and scandals Ljubinko and Desanka Aleksandar Popović, directed by Milan Nešković, which is played on the stage of NP "Toša Jovanović" in Zrenjanin, act as a strange and gentle theater play
Can we talk about the suffering of women while completely excluding men except as a bully (who is eaten by pigs)? If we insist that women talk about women's suffering to women (in the audience), we end up in a situation where the problem of violence against women concerns only one social "niche", i.e. becomes the so-called minority issue
Unlike the previous two plays, which were based on dramatic works by foreign award-winning authors, the play symptoms in Atelier 212 was inspired by our author's novel. Director Iva Milošević dramatized the novel of blogger and writer Milica Sniva
Interest in the theater is considered to be the highest in March. For example, on Tuesday, in just one day, there will be two premieres, last week there were three in Belgrade alone, two of which were again on the same day...
All property and legal relations have been resolved, the tender was completed, the contractor was selected, and a week ago everything became legally binding because the contract with the contractor was signed, said Maša Mihailović, the director of the "Boška Buhe" theater, which has been waiting nine years for reconstruction to begin. buildings
Through this performance, the director and the actors provoke the audience to think about what theater is, what theater means to the actors, what theater means to the audience and what is the position of theater in contemporary Serbian society. The play begins and ends with a question about the relationship between the audience and the actors on stage. How the actors and how the audience experience the convention of modern Western theater such as the famous "fourth wall"
"Judging by myself, for example, do I know who wrote some of my favorite songs? Well, I have no idea. At the end of the day, when the music is good, it doesn't really matter. The film and the song breathed together and an unplanned success happened. Somehow it played itself out. I was the last to realize that it is performed everywhere. And I'm glad. The song is so much bigger than me that I now have the feeling that it is a folk song"
"The possibility of a normal, dignified life, above all for my child, is reason enough for me to feel better in Sweden, at least at this moment. Why I am no longer in Serbia is not a question for me. There is exactly as much of me as the Serbian theater needs me. And how much I need it"
Due to the dynamics of the work process and money, most Belgrade theaters have two premieres in December. For some, these are the only new plays this season
Kieran Lynn: Incident at the border; directed by Stefan Gajić; Yugoslav Drama Theater
"I have always liked digressions, it seems to me that we are mature, especially the young generation, at least for this you open a lot of windows, you come to some code, you search further, then you return to the basic narrative. Since life is chaotic, there is a need for calmness that would give (and hence the desire in the theater) clean storytelling. It seems to me that purer forms are on the rise - the story, the return to realism, we put the microphones away, we build, in fact, a scenography that evokes, closes, does what a film does for us"
For the first time, the annual gathering of world theaters for children was held in Serbia, and that is important news. It was called "Prekretnica", which corresponds to one of the questions discussed - whether today's children, especially in Serbia, are denied/neglected the rights to culture and art
