Theatre as a Battlefield for the Memory on the War in Croatia
This paper historicizes the developments in Croatian theatre as a space of fostering debate on the country’s recent past during the war (1991-1995) in three periods: wartime and the post-war transition until Croatia started its European Union accession negotiations (1990-2004), a new wave of deal...
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Centre for Southeast European Studies
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/0a8cbb06201f4fd580132f54b5ea39de |
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| Sumario: | This paper historicizes the developments in Croatian theatre as a space of
fostering debate on the country’s recent past during the war (1991-1995) in
three periods: wartime and the post-war transition until Croatia started its
European Union accession negotiations (1990-2004), a new wave of dealing
with the past from 2005 to 2016, a reverse conservative wave from 2016 to
2019, and the indications of a comeback of counter-memory in 2020,
truncated by the pandemic. The study analyses the situation in Croatian
society and the main events that affected political and social life, explores
the functioning of Croatian theatre institutions, and examines the staged
plays, contextualises their plots by explaining the issues and events they
treat, and examines the reactions the staged plays provoked, as well as how
their effects multiplied beyond the theatre audience. The results showed
that after the first period when Croatian playwriting was more focused on
war trauma, the theatre opened a crack in the society and contested the
hegemonic narrative of a victorious and victim nation. In spite of the reverse
trend as of 2013, the counter-memory shown in the theatre crossed the walls
and spread to a much bigger audience than that actually watching the
plays. |
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