Скопско Народно позориште у ратним условима (1914–1915)

Abstract

Branislav Dj. Nušić (1864-1938), the famous writer, prolific comedist, prominent cultural and public worker had been the first manager of the National theatre in Skoplje and one of its founders in 1913. After only a month, the building where the National theatre commenced its work burnt to the ground. Since that misfortune, the manager Nušić had been taking care to find the appropriate scene. As things turned out, the theatre worked in improvised halls but when the working conditions became impossible, he made the initiative for building the new edifice. Based on the preserved documents from the archive in the Ministry of Education and church of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1913 to 1915, the paper presents the history of this Nušić’s initiative alongside the survey of the work of the Skoplje theatre in war conditions (1914-1915) till its final break in October of 1915 because of the military operations.