Željko Hubač, the author of the monodrama "Chucuk Stan" of the Zaječar Theater, which was invited to the Revue of the Šabac Theater, believes that one should not support a revue that is organized for lucrative reasons.
Šabac theater was left without 15 performances because the director decided so. Because of this, 80 percent of the actors of the ensemble did not step on the stage for a year and a half. However, the budget of the theater is 15 million dinars
Musically, Furtwängler's spirit is still very much alive. For the moral and political, each of us should look for our own answers, since, regardless of the state of political struggles, everyone must defend the old and build new cultural and aesthetic values. Thanks to Harwood for prompting us and not offering any definitive answers himself. And the question is - it doesn't hurt to repeat - short: is art reducible to some other dimension (political, psychoanalytic, educational, religious, moral) or does it come from a separate world and can only truly live in it
After a certain Marin Medak called on Croatian veterans and all citizens to boycott the Belgrade play "People from Above", the guest appearance in Osijek was cancelled. The reason: it stars Sergej Trifunović, who "is not welcome because of his earlier statements about Croatia."
And the Argentinian redhead Marina Otero decided not to come to Bitef with the play "Kill Me" in September. Will Bitef be able to take place with only two performances left?
The Portuguese play Žiga Divjak will not be coming to Bitef. It is assumed that there will be more. If this biggest international theater festival in Serbia does not take place this year, that will be the end of it, experts say
The first move of the new acting director of the Bitef Theater is to cancel the already arranged shows and stage new ones, according to his taste. The management board has not made a decision on this
Love, coincidence and quantum physics have been meeting on stage for a decade through the play "Constellations", which has become one of the recognizable works of the contemporary repertoire in Belgrade. The ten-year anniversary of the performance will be celebrated on April 15 in Atelier 212
"Why do we, the citizens of this undeclared dictatorship, agree to sit for months in lines of cars bypassing Xatsiland, which mocks us in the face with its senselessness and primitivism? Why do we live, make friends, talk with any member of the police and special units who mercilessly beat students and citizens? Why don't we use the endless possibilities of civil disobedience that are available to us"
Even though the season is over and the technical employees have nothing to do, the director of the Šabac Theater ordered them to come to work every day, because that's according to the law. Until now, she has not decided according to the law
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
