This book assembles texts by renowned academics and theatre artists who were professionally
active during the wars in former Yugoslavia. It examines examples of how various forms of
theatre and performance reacted to the conflicts in Serbia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia and Kosovo while they were ongoing. It explores state-funded National Theatre
activities between escapism and denial the theatre aesthetics of protest and resistance and
symptomatic shifts and transformations in the production of theatre under wartime circumstances
both in theory and in practice. In addition it looks beyond the period of conflict itself
examining the aftermath of war in contemporary theatre and performance such as by considering
Ivan Vidic's war trauma plays the art campaigns of the international feminist organization
Women in Black and Peter Handke's play Voyage by Dugout. The introduction explores
correlations between the contributions and initiates a reflection on the further development of
the research field. Overall the volume provides new perspectives and previously unpublished
research in the fields of theory and historiography of theatre as well as Southeast European
Studies.
