Sarajevski Ratni Teatar
The Sarajevski Ratni Teatar (abbreviated: SARTR, Sarajevo War Theater ) is a theater in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
history
It opened on May 17, 1992 during the siege of Sarajevo (April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996) on the initiative of Gradimir Gojer , Đorđe Mačkić , Dubravka Bibanović and Safet Plakalo .
Actors, theater workers and many theater fans support the SARTR. There were over 2,000 performances in the four years of the siege. In January 1993 the Sarajevo city administration recognized the theater as a public institution with special significance for the defense of the city. The Bosnian playwright Safet Plakalo , the longtime director of the Sarajevski Ratni Teatar, spoke of the SARTR as Sarajevo's spiritual weapon against the surrealism of war. The theater was still very popular after the war, so there were produced shows such as Dijalog u paklu , (directed by Aleš Kurt) and Ay, Carmela , (directed by Robert Raponja).
Web links
- Homepage of the Sarajevski Ratni Teatar (Bosnian)