Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia

[Ches Skinner]

Statement from the Association of  Dramatic Artists of Serbia on the
 occasion of International Theatre Day, 27 March 1999

In an international message on World Theatre Day, Mrs Vigdis
Finbogadottir
outlines reasons for the survival of the theatre which, in our modern
civilised world, is faced with serious problems.
The same modern civilised world has placed all of us, our country and
our
theatre in a situation which is irreconcilable with its own proclaimed
ethical standards. Therefore, we consider that our reasons for the
theatre
to survive at this moment are far stronger.
Confronted with bombs, destroyed towns, lost lives, and the whole
aggressive attack upon human integrity, we are trying to justify the
very
existence of the theatre and to go on living the only way we know- by
performing. Our own individual and personal reasons may be different. On

the one hand, it may represent an escape from the present awful reality;

on the other, the reason may lie in a clear, conscious and critical
stand
against the horrors which someone has decided to "stage" in another
country at the end of the twentieth century.
Fully aware that our decision cannot influence objective circumstances,
like air raid warnings, loss of electricity, a ban on public meetings
and
other unpredictable events, we shall do all in our power to ensure that
the theatre goes on as long as is humanly possible. Therefore, the
Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia calls upon its members to
continue to play in their theatres as far as is realistically possible
at
this  very unreal time.
We do not have the right to ask others to join us, but in this way we
wish
to inform our audiences that we shall continue to be when they can
always
find us- an that is, on stage.
Let the theatre be our bomb shelter.



Presidency of the Association of the Dramatic Artists of Serbia
President: Tihomir Stanic


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