BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Streetart Sarajevo – Mejtaš – Maršala Tita 56A – Kamerni Teatar 55

Kamerni Teatar 55 – Chamber Theater 55

The Chamber Theater 55 in Samoyo was founded on 7th March 1955. Although the theatre. does not have an exceptionally history, it is „undoubtedly richer, more attractive and. significant that the decade long round cold schematism of other theatres and their careless existence“, as a renowned critic hted once. Through a constant questioning and challenging as well as through fervent search for different, more direct and more open stage expression.

There have certainly been some wanderings but even they were not useless. It is also after those „errors“ that the Chamber Theatre ’55 succeeded to return to its own self, to its roots, with ever more imagination and quality of its production. It has never betrayed the profile defined at the very outset by its visionary founder Jurislav Korenić (1914, 1974) the profile that was the novelty in this part of the world that was in sync withthe tendencies of the then theatre of Europe.

That is the time when a new form of dramaturgy was emerging in the art of theatre: „theatre of absurdity“ and „anti-drama“ or „new drama“. Opening the for the experimental in theater; for the plays by Beckett, Jarry, Genet, Ionesco, Schwart the hond the whole new pleiades of author whose poetics in modern theatre arose from the libsurdity of life“.

The Chamber Theater 55 had a decisive influence n a whole genera artists who have recognized this „ring-like stage“, surrounded by audience, unlika tal type of stage, with its insurmountable swing-gate, as the opportunity of a mort animate and more sincere acting and for the establishment of His Majesty the Actor as the key factor in theatre, since it was only at the small stage that actors could act on their audience in more direct and natural manner, resisting the pathos, clichés and false intonation.