The workshops as a part of the project ”Sexual Theatre” have gotten underway in the Bosnian National Theatre. It all happened on Friday, the eighth of March. The events were co-financed by the “Creative Europe Programme” in which the “Theatre City” is one of the project partners.
Aleksandra Maslovar, representing the JU ”Theatre City” during this project, has also been a part of the aforesaid workshops. The other participants present were:the playwright Stela Mišković, Minja Novaković, a young director from Montenegro, and Jasmina Bigović, a member of the Budva Youth Club.
Sumea Mujkanović, the mayor’s assistant for social protection, housing affairs and social activities, has also been present at the official opening of the project. As Mujkanović stated it was a pleasure for Zenica and its National Theatre to host such diversity of artists. Furthermore, as was pointed out by Mujkanović it was a great honor that, amongst all others, the Bosnian National Theatre in Zenica should be the starting point of this huge project that gathered together in one place the artists from all over the world. As Mujkanović asserted there is not a shadow of a doubt that the artists from Montenegro, France and Portugal will be pleased by what they will witness and consequently achieve in collaboration with the artists from Zenica in this representative theatre institution.
The implementation of the project started in January, 2024 and will last until December, 2025. Along with the “Theatre City”, the project partners are: the Teatro “Circo de Braga” from Portugal, the University Paul-Valery Montpellier located in France and the Bosnian National Theatre (Zenica). The primary goal of the project is the betterment of the theatre topics and narratives through the feminist approach towards the interpretation of the national literature classics.
The project encompasses sixteen activities which will be realized. However, the final result of all these strivings will take the form of: the four new theatre festivals and dramatic texts with the addition of the four new plays. It is planned for the plays to run in all four project partnership countries and that as the constituent parts of the four festivals. In the end, the book comprising together all the goals and results of the project is to be published.