Sarajevo War Theatre

Sarajevo War Theatre (SARTR)

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Address	Gabelina 16, 71000 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates	43°51′48.78″N 18°24′54.86″E / 43.8635500°N 18.4152389°E / 43.8635500; 18.4152389
Opened	17 May 1992
Website
www.sartr.ba

The Sarajevo War Theatre (

In January 1993, SARTR was officially recognised by the Sarajevo City Assembly as a public institution of special significance for the defence of Sarajevo.[11] SARTR's founding director, Safet Plakalo, has often spoken of SARTR as Sarajevo's spiritual weapon against the surrealism of war, summarising its charter in the catch-cry Theatre Against Death.^[12] The theatre's first war-time production The Shelter (Bosnian: Sklonište), written by Safet Plakalo and Dubravko Bibanović, premiered on September 6, 1992. Headlined by the acclaimed Bosnian actors Jasna Diklić, Zoran Bečić, Miodrag Trifunov, Senad Bašić, Nebojša Veljović, Branko Ličen, Irena Mulamuhić, Alija Aljović and Nisveta Omerbašić, it was performed 97 times during the 1992-1996 siege achieving legendary status.^[13][14] Only one other production would surpass The Shelter's importance in the history of the theatre: a play about the Spanish Civil War. ¡Ay Carmela!, written by the Spanish playwright José Sanchis Sinisterra, was premiered in 1999, and would occupy the theatre's 'most popular' slot for the next twenty-two years.

SARTR was the first Bosnian theatre to leave the country during the war and showcase its productions abroad, visiting the

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  Nineteen Eighty-Four in Sarajevo War Theatre, 2013

References

External links

• Official website