Presentation of the Reflektor Teatar Festival
REFLEKTOR TEATAR is a socially engaged theater, founded in 2012 within the youth organization Center E8, in Belgrade. Over the first thirteen seasons, we have produced sixteen full-length plays, performed over 700 times, in twenty countries, sixty cities, and a dozen villages across Serbia. We work with and for young people, creating performances that draw an equal sign between art and activism, the personal and the political, ethics and aesthetics.
Our work is characterized by a documentary and educational approach, a process-oriented methodology, political engagement, and a clear commitment to human rights, gender equality, and equality in all other forms. In addition to plays, performances, workshops, documentary films, and lectures, we also produce two theater festivals: REFLEKTOR TEATAR FESTIVAL – a regional festival of socially engaged theater, and TOP FESTIVAL, dedicated to the engaged theatrical expression of youth.
The REFLEKTOR TEATAR FESTIVAL (#RTF) has a mission to promote experimental, political, and innovative theatrical forms, with a special focus on the production of independent performing arts scenes in the region. This year, it will be held for the second time, from November 24 to 30, in the new performance space Svemirski Ranččč, located within Luka Beograd.
The central theme of this year’s selection is related to the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Thirty years represent enough temporal distance for an objective, historical view of the past, but history remains a battlefield for interpretation.
In the selection of the 2nd RTF, the audience will have the opportunity to see how theater artists from Sarajevo, Mostar, Priština, Podgorica, Zagreb, and Belgrade interpret the wars of the 1990s with the distance of three decades, and to pose the question: Is what we live today truly PEACE? And does peace begin when a peace agreement is signed, or only when truth is established and justice achieved?