The “Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša” award jury, presented by the “Theatre City” festival, whose members were Prof. Dr. Vesna Goldsworthy, Prof. Dr. Tatjana Đurišić, and Prof. Dr. Zoran Paunović (as president), has unanimously decided that the award winner for the year 2024/2025 is the writer Vladislav Bajac. The jury states the following: “Although he first entered…
The first cycle of rehearsals for the play “No Woman’s Land”, directed by Laurent Berger from France, have started in the “Red Commune” in Petrovac. The text was written by playwright Catia Faisco, based on the story “Jumping Girl” by Stefan M. Ljubiša. The play was created as a result of the “Sexual Theatre” project…
In anticipation of observing of Njegoš Days, in which Montenegro, as one of few countries in the world, celebrates the National Day of Culture, we recall this Prince-Bishop’s poem “A Thought” (1844), which sublimates philosophical and the Enlightenment ideas, later elaborated in his famous poem “The Ray of Microcosm” (1847). МИСАО Пламен божествени у…
At the closing ceremony of the International Festival of Actor in Nikšić, Aljoša Đidić and Milan Kovačević were unanimously awarded the Grand Prix prize for the best partnership in the play A World of Possibilities, by the author and director Haris Pašović, which was created as a joint project of the Public Institution Theatre City,…
This year’s co-productions of the Theatre City – the plays Favoritism and A World of Possibilities, continue to live their theatrical life in the country and the region. As part of the 29th Yugoslav Theatre Festival No Translation, the play Favoritism – based on the text by Branisalav Nušić and directed by Milan Nešković, will…
The play “Radovan the Third”, written by Dušan Kovačević and directed by Vito Taufer, realized as a co-production of the Public Institution “Theatre City” Budva and the National Theatre in Sombor, which had its premiere during the 37th Theatre City festival, was awarded two prizes at the 31st International Festival of Classics “Vršac Theatre Autumn”.…
A final goodbye to Mr Radoslav Petković, the winner of the “Stefan M. Ljubiša” 2019/2020 award, and a sincere friend of the “Theatre City” festival, whose literary work, in constant “defense against growing nihilism”, will continue to remind us that “literature, despite all the challenges of other – different interests that move literature to the…
