From the so-called socialist realism to the destruction of the theatre

An analysis of the basic repertoire trends from 1945 to 1970
The first years after the end of the Second World War were marked by the so-called "Socialist Realism" in the theatre as well, and occasional reaching for plays of the Croatian Romantic tradition was merely a result of shortage of plays ideologically better suited to the political moment. An essential element, marking the theatre from the very beginning, and succeeding eventually in destroying the "poetics" of the Socialist Realism, was Stanislawsky’s "Sistem". A quest for an internal expression necessarily diverted the actors from the black-and white presentation. It was due to artists such as T. Tanhofer, L. Manswietova, and K. Mesarić that the theatrical art was not utterly extinguished even in these years.

Considerable changes started in 1953 with a production of Luigi Pirandello’s "Cos“ Ź se cos“ vi pare" directed by L. Manswietova. The play expressed a notion of the world and a frame of mind essentially different from the one prescribed by the then regime. In 1954 a summer festival was started which has been continued to the present day. In its very first year it had an important production of Sophocles’s "Antigone" directed byT. Tanhofer.

It was not until the end of 1962 that the theatre returned to the contemporary trends with an anthological production of Weiss’s "Marat-SadeÇ directed by Bojan Stupica and anticipating the theatrical search that was to mark the following two decades. That season was also the beginning of a successful period lasting three years, which saw Dr Marko Fotez as the Director of Drama, and which was to end in a major fire destroying the theatre and leaving the personnel virtually homeless for nine long years.

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