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"Theatrical Classics from the English Language Area on the Osijek Wartime Stage (1990 - 1998)"

During the defensive Croatian War of Independence (1990‒1998), the performances directed pursuant to the creations by the Croatian men of letters, or the expected inscenations of patriotic exhortations and occasional pieces by the local Slavonian writers, were by no means the only ones staged in the Osijek’s wounded Croatian National Theater. On the contrary, having defied the enemy and having confirmed that the arts do not have to, necessarily, be numbed during adversities, the unsilenced and proud Osijek’s Thalia aspired not to lag behind other communities regarding the quality of its histrionics and not to essentially be different from a peaceful period by the might of a spoken word, to the utmost astonishment of the foreign cultural audience. When a direct shot by a multiple rocket launcher on November 16, 1991, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of its existence, tried to close its auditorium, recently reconstructed on November 27, 1985, the Osijek’s war stage, homeless as of that time, all up to a new radiance of the old splendor on December 27, 1994, also produced the plays by the classics from the English language area at the ruins of the former temple. And thus also here, Samuel Beckett has ominously spoken on nihilism and existential alienation in an absurd, impersonal reality, while Ray Cooney and the inomissible William Shakespeare have swathed the wounds of the war-torn Osijek by virtue of their everlasting vivacity, having frequently caused a laughter through tears…

Croatian War of Independence ; Croatian National Theater in Osijek ; schedule ; English classics

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