POZORIŠTE U CRNOJ GORI
THEATER IN MONTENEGRO

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to highlight the beginnings and values of the Montenegrin theater. Archaeological finds in Montenegro indicate the existence of theater and activities in it during antiquity and the early Middle Ages. There is no solid evidence for the existence of theater in the late Middle Ages, as well as later. Only since the end of the 17th century, did archival data speak of the performance of liturgical drama in the vernacular in the churches and squares of the cities of the Montenegrin coast. Secular drama, which emerged from oral folklore, as well as the institution of theater, founded by spiritual and secular rulers as authors, developed with interruptions, ups and downs, due to frequent and numerous wars and changing political circumstances. Theater in Montenegro has always, like Phoenix, been born from the ashes, to meet the demands of society and the cultural needs of citizens, and to progress at the same pace as other Balkan nations, and today seeks to follow the European dramaturgy and nurture aesthetics of contemporary stage.

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