Today is World Theater Day. Since 1962, the International Theater Institute (Internation theater institution) has been organizing the celebration of World Theater Day on the day when the Theater of Nations was opened in Paris - March 27.
World Theater Day is an opportunity for theater professionals to remind the public of the power of the performing arts and artistic creativity that comes from the collective creative act. Every year on March 27th, theaters around the world, the national centers of the International Theater Institute and the entire international theater community organize various theater events, the most important of which is a traditional international message written by a world-renowned theater personality at the invitation of ITI.
The message is translated into more than 20 languages, read before tens of thousands of spectators in theaters, printed and broadcast in hundreds of newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations on all continents. The first message for World Theater Day was written by Jean Cocteau in 1962, and this year the message is signed by the French film and theater actress Isabelle Yper.
The Montenegrin National Theater will mark World Theater Day tonight on the Big Stage with a performance of "Learned Women" by Jean Baptiste Poklen Moliere, directed by Jagoš Marković, at 20 p.m., and before the performance, Izabel Iper will read a message from CNP actress Andrea Mugoš.
The Royal Theater "Zetski dom" will mark International Theater Day by performing the play "Butterfly" by Aleksandr Radunović Popaj, directed by Andraš Urban, tonight at 20 p.m., while the City Theater from Podgorica will join the celebration of the holiday by performing its play "Guardians of Your Honesty" directed by Boris Liješević, tonight at 20 pm in the Center for Culture in Tivat. Before the performance of the play, Izabel Iper's message will be read by the actress Branka Femić of the City Theater in front of the Tivat theater audience.
On the occasion of World Theater Day, the British-American feature film Macbeth or The Tragedy of Macbeth, filmed in 20 and directed by Roman Polanski, will be shown in the Nikšić Theater tonight at 1971 p.m., and is an adaptation of the tragedy of the same name by the English writer William Shakespeare.
The organizers of this event are the Cinematheque of Montenegro and the Nikšić Theater within the framework of the Culture Development Support Program in Nikšić.
Theater protects us, shelters us, theater loves us
"While I'm saying this, I'm not me, I'm not an actress, I'm just one of so many people responsible for the theater still existing. In a way, that is also our task. And our need, so to speak: we are not responsible for the fact that the theater exists, rather it will be that we exist thanks to it. Theater is very strong, it resists, survives everything, wars, censorship, lack of money.
It is enough to say 'the backdrop is a bare stage, in an unspecified period' and introduce an actor. Or an actress. What will he do? What will she say? Will they talk? The audience is waiting, they will find out, the audience without which there is no theater, let's not forget that. And one person in the auditorium makes up the audience. Let there be as few empty chairs as possible...
For me, theater represents the other, it is dialogue, the absence of hatred. Friendship between peoples, I'm not sure what it means, but I believe in community, in the friendship of the audience and actors, in the unity of all those who the theater brings together, those who write it, who translate it, those who illuminate it, dress it up, decorate it, those who make it they derive, who make it, who go to it. The theater protects us, provides us shelter... I think it loves us... as much as we love it... I remember a director of the old school who, every evening before raising the curtain, behind the scenes, would say in a relaxed tone: "Seats for the theater!", she said. in an inspired message on the occasion of World Theater Day, French actress Isabelle Yper.
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