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Collaborative project with the Swedish Institute

CHILDREN’S THEATRE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Pygméteatern is taking part in a major project about Astrid Lindgren and children’s rights which the Swedish Institute is running in Belgrade this autumn. “Taking play seriously” is a theme common to our theatre production, “The Middle of the Night”, and the Swedish Institute’s project. “The Middle of the Night” will be performed from 6-10 December in all the institutional children’s theatres in Belgrade:
The ‘Pinokio’ Puppet Theatre"
The ‘Dusko Radovic’ Little Theatre
The ‘Bosko Buha’ Theatre
and in the Pancevo Cultural Centre

In addition to its performances, Pygméteatern will hold workshops at the shadow puppet theatre,
and also at the Belgrade Children’s Cultural Centre.

A seminar entitled “Working with children’s theatre in Sweden and Serbia” will be held on 9 December in the ‘Bosko Buha’ Theatre in Belgrade.

Contributors from Sweden:
Margareta Sörenson, children’s theatre and literary critic
Agneta Ehrensvärd, play director and artistic director of Unga Dramatentheatre
Marie Persson Hedenius, dramaturg at Upsala Stadsteater and member of Assitej Sweden
and
Sten Wallin, Vesna Stanisic, Brita Cronvall och Michael Koitzsch from Pygméteatern.

Från Belgrad:
Igor Bojovic, playwright and director in chief of the ‘Pinokio’ Puppet Theatre, chairman of Unima Serbia
Anja Susa, play director and director in chief of the ‘Dusko Radovic’ Little Theatre
Nenan Nenadovic, actor and director in chief of the ‘Bosko Buha’ Theatre
Ivana Vujic, play director and course director of the Theatre and Film Academy’s theatrical directing course
Ljubica Ristic Beljanski, chairman of Assitej Serbia
Snezana Andjelkovic, director in chief of the Belgrade Children’s Cultural Centre.
 
 
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