The play "Mr & Mrs Smith" is one of the events in this, for the UK "Parobrod", a celebratory year, in which it marks 15 years since its foundation, and 100 years since the construction of its building and the former representative office of the First Danube Steamship Company
All theaters in Belgrade, Sombor and the Serbian National Theater canceled performances on Thursday as a sign of protest over the attempted murder of a female student during a fifteen-minute delivery of mail to the victims in Novi Sad. The continuation of the protest is being considered
Katarina Mitrović: All good Barbies; directed by Đorđe Nešović; Artifact
How do we remember some theater performances? These are the five best in 2024, as chosen by Marina Madjarev Milivojević, critic of "Vremena"
The almost unknown poem by Aleksandar Vuč and Dušan Matić, once banned because it called for rebellion, became a performance of the "Bread Theater" and part of the celebration of the century of surrealism. It can be seen on Saturday at the Museum of Applied Arts
The Homeland Movement asks the Croatian National Theater in Split to remove from the repertoire the play based on the columns of Viktor Ivančić, directed by the Belgrade director Kokan Mladenović.
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
A man's tear,
based on motifs from AP Chekhov's one-act plays
directed by Aleksandar Popovski
Yugoslav Drama Theater
Sofia Dimitrijević: rake
director Dajana Josipović
Belgrade Drama Theatre, Summer Scene
The play "Finist, bisti soko" based on the text by Svetlana Petrijchuk and directed by Zhenya Berkovic is about Russian women who married Islamists. It received four nominations for the main Russian theater award and won two, and the authors were condemned even though the text is based on real materials
"There's a mutation going on into insensitivity, numbness and powerlessness." And at the same time, we are comfortable enough to change and risk this existing state of affairs. It's a strange combination of inertia, passivity, fear, selfishness and conformism, both in personal and collective social relations," says Snežana Trišić, director of the play "Love Mode" of the Kruševac Theatre, which will have its Belgrade premiere tomorrow.
If in righteous anger we return evil to evil, if we ourselves accept violent methods understandable to the ruling power, it seems that we will only harm the previous villains, but not evil itself - this is one of the many topics you think about after the play "Michael Koolhaas".
"The impossibility to change the existing state of affairs breeds hopelessness and apathy." Hopelessness and apathy have been a constant for decades. Especially now, when the modern world really shows its incredible face of destruction, destruction," says the director of "Ivanova", a play about a defeated intellectual, which will be performed tomorrow for the 50th time at the National Theater
Gorica Popović and Gordan Kičić about the play "Love Letter" which, due to frequent applause and laughter, lasts three hours instead of two, as it did at the premiere thirty years ago in "Atelier 212"
Which plays from 2023 brought aesthetic innovations in terms of direction, which had significant acting achievements and which have something new and important to tell us, as chosen by the critic "Vremena"
For those who are looking forward to the New Year, i.e. children, theaters have provided optimism and Santa Claus. For adults, only the National Theater has a New Year's program
#RTF is the first festival of the Reflektor Theater, a regional festival of socially engaged theatrical expression, and marking the 11th year of this theater
Overcome wildernesses, bypass traps, break through fears, and find strength again - this is the message that unites the performances of this year's "Polyphony", the traditional accompanying program of Bitef.
On Wednesday, the 57th Bitef begins with the German play "Children of the Sun", respecting the continuity with the previous concepts of the festival
The one who has a heart of stone actually doesn't have one and can do the most terrible things in the world - this is one of the messages of tomorrow's premiere of the "Sterija" theater in Vršac
After the start of the war in Ukraine, many Russian artists with exceptional biographies moved to Belgrade to continue what they were doing in their country with their Serbian colleagues.
"For my taste, so-called current plays often have a kind of superficial didacticism. When I say that, I mean a certain imposition of ideas on the viewer, what he should think and the like. In the theater, I'm not so interested in someone's intelligence, what remains hidden, inferred, is always much more important to me than what is said directly."
A diverse artistic, debating and entertainment program has been announced, in which the theater stands out with relevant and exciting performances about diversity, prejudices and social values.
In "Vila Stanković" in Čortanovci until the end of August, open-air performances will be shown, as in the previous ten years of this festival. The ones that will delight the audience were chosen, said Vida Ognjenović, the selector
