Theatrical presentation of history: Fourteen: Searching for the answers

Abstract

In theatre, the commemoration of the centenary of the beginning of the Great War was marked by the appearance of theatrical presentations of history and the search for dramatistic answers to interpreting the reason and cause of the First World War. The paper offers an overview of dramatic tradition of the plays written and performed on the topic of the First World War in the theatres in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an overview of the plays staged to commemorate a century of the beginning of the Great War. The focus is on the authorial project by a Belgrade director Ana Đorđevic, Fourteen in the production of the National Theatre of the Republika Srpska in Banja Luka, which opened the theatrical season of performances about crucial events of the twentieth century. Dramatizing Vladimir Dedijer's book Sarajevo 1914 (Belgrade, 1966), the author starts from a complex source of materials rich in factual data, dates, places, individuals, events, phenomena, citations and testimonies and using the language of the scene, she analyzes the events from various points of view.