The Sarajevo Youth Theatre ( bs, Pozorište mladih Sarajevo / Позориште младих Сарајево) is a children's and youth

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

. It was founded in 1950 under the name ''Pioneer Theatre''. It is the largest theatre of its kind in the country.

History

After the

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the new Yugoslav communist authorities started a large programme of cultural and artistic expansion. In 1950 two theatres aimed at children were established in Sarajevo: the Pioneer Theatre and the Puppet Theatre. The former did not have its own professional ensemble, but would book actors from more established Yugoslav theatres for individual productions. The latter, managed by Adolf Pomezni, mostly focused on

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-based productions. In 1961 the Pioneer Theatre, managed at the time by founder of the MESS International Theatre Festival Jurislav Korenić, formed its first professional ensemble and changed its name to the Sarajevo Youth Theatre. In 1977 the Puppet Theatre was fused with the Sarajevo Youth Theatre. At this time notable productions included J.Skupa-K.Venig's Srećko među bubama,

Josip Vandot Josip Vandot (15 January 1884 – 11 July 1944) was a Slovene writer and poet who wrote mainly for young readers. Biography Vandot was born in Kranjska Gora in Upper Carniola, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Slovenia. Under the interwar K ...

's Kekec,

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

by D.Bibanović,

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by L.Paljetka, Šimić's Palčić Dugonja and

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, D.Todorović's Na Lutkarskoj,

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's The Tempest and

The Comedy of Errors ''The Comedy of Errors'' is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It ...

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...

's The Birds,

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Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics. Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, ...

Ubu Roi ''Ubu Roi'' (; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de P ...

, Držić's Novela od Stanca,

Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...

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, Kurićeva

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' ( ...

, Lukić's I opet Nusic and Bašeskija, san o Sarajevu and many others. With the start of the

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and the

Bosnian war The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

in 1992 the theatre continued to operate and, in cooperation with the MESS International Theatre Festival and a hand full of theatre professionals that included

Haris Pašović Haris Pašović (born 16 July 1961) is a Bosnian theatre director. Over the course of his career, he has also worked as a playwright, producer, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for his productions of Wedekind's “ Spring A ...

and

Gradimir Gojer Gradimir Gojer (born 4 March 1951) is a Bosnian theater director and writer who was born in Mostar. He studied and earned a degree in directing and literature from the University of Sarajevo. He has directed in some of the largest Bosnian theater ...

, continued to host theatre productions. Numerous renowned directors, including

Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her ...

, directed productions in the theatre during the Siege. It was commercially reopened in 1997 and was rebuilt in 2016.

References

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External links

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