RTS Redirects the Budget Is the Kingdom of Darkness the Last Saved Play RTS I Kultura Nedeljnik

"Theatrical material, which is kept from being forgotten in this way, is an important material for scientific and research work in the field of the history of theater art," Maja Gojković wrote, among other things, in the letter The letter from the Minister of Culture is actually a reaction to a series of newspaper articles by journalist vukica strugar in "Večernji novosti", initiated by RTS's decision to stop filming theater plays after 55 years.

, will also be the last piece of theatrical art that will be preserved for future generations, RTS leaders justify the reduced budget, which caused the redirection of funds to more commercially profitable drama series "For now, we have no plans to record new plays," he said For students, they are a textbook without which they cannot study.

" Bradić also says that RTS has the ability to record a performance like hardly anyone else, which makes it even more responsible to continue collecting and broadcasting them "It is good that the Ministry of Culture reacted.

Perhaps, if RTS really does not have a budget for theatrical tradition, the state will have some solution I think that RTS will have to reconsider its decision after the letter from Minister Gojković", says Nebojša Bradić.

The first live broadcast of a play in Yugoslavia it was December 28, 1958 It was a play by Joakim Vujić's Theater directed by Vladimir Petrić in Belgrade's "Atelje 212".

When a tape recorder was acquired for the first Non-Aligned Conference in 1961, performances began to be recorded The oldest recordings in the RTS archive are from 1967.

Jegor Buličov by Mate Milošević in the Yugoslav Drama with Milivoj Živanović in the lead role In the same '67, Ace Popović's Jelena Ćetković was preserved in the National Theater with Ksenija Jovanović and Mija Aleksić, directed by Bora Grigorović.

It is also significant because it shows what a fantastic theater actor Mija Aleksić was The third, oldest recording is Arsenic and Old Lace by Atelje 212, directed by Milenko Maričić, with Rahela Ferrari and Vuka Dunđerović.

Since then, around two hundred performances have been recorded Vukica Strugar, author of articles in "Večernji novosti" about this problem, reminds that "theatre, the most ephemeral of all arts, can only leave a mark in time by recording performances.

A living word and a living man on stage, that elusive symbiosis, are lost once the play is removed from the repertoire .