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Theatre in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995 provides a critical historiography of the activities of institutional theatres in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war of 1992 1995. Based on the assumption that different contexts of war lead to diverse forms and functions of theatre, this open access book analyses the activities of theatrical institutions in four Bosnian-Herzegovinian cities during wartime. The primary material, collected onsite, includes video recordings of performances, edited plays, theatre programs and newspaper reviews, as well as interviews with contemporary witnesses who were active theatre artists during the war.
List of contents
1 Chapter 1. Introduction: Theatre historiography as conflict research.- Chapter 2. Mostar Establishing theatres in the midst of war.- Chapter 3. Tuzla Identity Discourses on the Stages of a Paradoxical City.- Chapter 4. Banja Luka As if somebody were directing events there. .- Chapter 5. Sarajevo Theatre in the Sarajevo Roulette .- Chapter 6. Conclusions.
About the author
Senad Halilbašić, born in 1988 in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), is a theatre scholar and screenwriter. His doctoral research in theatre studies at the University of Vienna forms the basis of this book. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna and at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin. Among his publications is the co-edited volume Theatre in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars (2018), the first comparative study of theatre in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Alongside his academic work, he writes for film and television and teaches screenwriting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Summary
Theatre in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995 provides a critical historiography of the activities of institutional theatres in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war of 1992–1995. Based on the assumption that different contexts of war lead to diverse forms and functions of theatre, this open access book analyses the activities of theatrical institutions in four Bosnian-Herzegovinian cities during wartime. The primary material, collected onsite, includes video recordings of performances, edited plays, theatre programs and newspaper reviews, as well as interviews with contemporary witnesses who were active theatre artists during the war.
