CHANGING STAGE

This book explores various issues of theatre structures and their relation to society on the model of Voydan Chernodrinski's Theatre at the turn of the twentieth century on the Balkans. Most importantly this lucid book is indeapth structuraslist analysis of a theatre model that became powerfull means in the struggle of Macedonian people for national and social liberation of their country.

In that light the book addresses several very important issues: What is the position of the artist and his/her art in a given historical moment in his/her own culture? What does it mean for a writer to write “in dark times” and how does his/her writing affect historical events and developments? How is his/her ethical voice heard in the community? What does the creative and critical voice mean to the political establishment of the time and how does the political establishment react to these outcries for justice, political change, and freedom? The book was published in 1991 by Kultura Publishing from Skopje, Macedonia.


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