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Identity Matters: State of the Balkan Stage |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: John Elsom |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,711 Words, 16,586 Characters |
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I visited the Sterijino Pozorje Theater Festival in the Balkans for the first time in 1979, when Marshall Tito was still alive and the federation of quarrelsome countries that he had held together since World War II was known as Yugoslavia. I can still remember the title of an article that I wrote for the British magazine Contemporary Review, "How to Control the Collapse," because it got me into trouble.
I did not mean to be controversial. I was only a messenger. I was reporting the conversations in the coffeehouses of Belgrade and Novi Sad, which were about what would happen to Yugoslavia when Tito, who was known to be a sick man, died. In the paradoxical world of the Balkans, the public knew that he was sick, because he was so often reported as being alive, well, and hunting bears. Th...
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...in the Balkans and elsewhere. I suspect that the pan-European drama is more a product of subsidies and propaganda than of insights into life itself; and that what it typically represents is a model of how we ought to behave if we want to live in a trouble-free, multicultural Europe. But this is wishful thinking. We are not the same. And the theater has always existed to remind us of that fact.
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