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Theater in Kragujevac that bears the name of the father of first Serbian theatre Joakim Vujic has developed its repertoire and staged performances and turned into a modern contemporary theatre. Because Kragujevac was a capital City of the newly established Serbian state Grand Duke Milos built his castle there with other administrative and ruling apparatus.
First theatre performances are staged in 1825 by the teacher Djordje Evgenijevic and his pupils. During his second visit to Kragujevac, Joakim Vujic worked together with them.
First performances were staged on February 2 - 4, 1835 when the so-called Sretenje (the Visitation of the Virgin) Assembly sessions were held. These were mostly Vujic's plays performed for the Grand Duke and his family and the representatives of the people, i.e. members of Assembly; the music was composed by Jozef Slezinger. For three days they performed four plays Fernando and Jarika, La Perouse, Poor Versifier and Fugitive.
When Belgrade was proclaimed the capital City in 1841, a considerable number of this company with him came to Belgrade where they took part in the work of the Theater at Djumruk. In the middle of the 19th-century Voluntary, Theater Company was established and attracted beside the Readers, intellectuals, the young generation, craftsmen and tradesmen giving impetus to cultural-educational life in Kragujevac on the long run.
In the 80ies the work of the Company declined, and other theatre companies took advantage of it giving their performances in Kragujevac. Among the first who came here was the group of Paja Stepic then Nikola Simic, Dimitrije Nislic, Theater Company Sindjelic from Nis, and others.
In the 90ies of last century, Voluntary Professional Theater Company was established under the name of Sloga. They staged 240 performances over the period of 3 years at the Hotel Takovo and the company's open stage in summers.
During the World War I, staging patriotic plays on the improvised stages in the exile and army camps supported the moral of the people and the soldiers. First cultural event in the liberated Kragujevac in 1918 was the establishment of the Theater Gundulic that worked only one season and moved to Belgrade,
Under the occupation from the year 1942 to 1944 under the supervision of the Department for the propaganda of the District of Kragujevac Headquarter, the Theater has established that in the repertoire had thematic plays of the life of the people. Quislings administration had an idea to use the Theater for mere propaganda, but they did not succeed in it.
The fire in 1969 disabled the work of the Theater over a short period, but it was then that the ensemble intensified the performing activities in other places, organising tours in the country and abroad.
In 1965 the theatre also initiated Meetings of professional Theatres Joakim Vujic of Serbia (in central Serbia), and they were held every year in May in one of ten different towns, until 2003. Since 2004, the Theatre became the regular host of JoakimFest and since October 2006, also of the JoakimInterFest, The International Small Scene Theatre Festival. JoakimInterFest they are members of two European organisations New European Theatre Action and World Theatre Network InterAct.
On February the 14th 2007, at the proposal of the Managing Board of the Theatre Joakim Vujic, Kragujevac City Assembly brought the decision by which the oldest Serbian theatre is being given back its original name, Knjaževsko-srpski teatar.
THE ENSEMBLE
Mr. Lucic Vojo, DIRECTOR
Nebojsa Bradic, Art Director
Mirko Babic, Champion drama
Nada Jurisic, Champion drama
Vladan Zivkovic, Milica Jovanovic,Nikola Milojevic, Aleksandar Milojevic, Vladanka Pavlovic, Miodrag Pejković, Slavica Tay, Marina Stojanovic , Sasha Pilipović, John Vidosavljević, Milos Krstović, Dusan Stanikić, Sanja Matejić, Dragan Stokic, Cedomir Stein, Zdravko Maletic, Dragan Jakovljevic, Mary Soldatović, Jane Smith, Milivoje Štulović,
Knjaževsko-srpski teatar
Daniciceva 3
34000 Kragujevac
Serbia
pozoristetjv@open.telekom.rs
http://www.joakimvujic.com/index_uk.php
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.