Legendary British actress to open program of Philosophy Theatre in Zagreb.
This year’s program of Philosophy Theatre at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb will be opened on Sunday, October 18, by famous British actress Vanessa Redgrave, reports Novi List on October 8, 2015.
Vanessa Redgrave is the only British actress who has won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Olivier, Cannes and the Golden Globe awards, and is also well-known for her activism, which ranges from the protests against the Vietnam War, through the struggle for the Palestinian state, to visiting Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.
She was and has remained a strong critic of the ‘war on terror’, and she has never given up fighting for human rights. When the riots broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina, she visited Sarajevo and Tuzla several times and supported the workers in their fight against privatization. Due to her activism, she has often lost roles and many doors have been closed to her, but she has never given up, and that will be one of the topics of the evening talk and meeting with Redgrave to be held at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, which will be moderated by Srećko Horvat.
The Philosophy Theatre program has been introduced by the manager of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb Dubravka Vrgoč in order to attract younger audience and to open the theatre to public debate and current critical thinking.
The program is intended as an opportunity for questioning “to what extent can a national theatre today ask important questions to the times we are living in”. It was opened in November 2014 with a visit to Zagreb by a prominent French philosopher Julia Kristeva. The first session has filled the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, while the live transmission of the discussion on Croatian Radio-Television was watched by thousands of viewers.
The first season of the Philosophy Theatre also welcomed Italian writer Niccolo Ammaniti, who is called “the Dickens of Today”; a well-known sociological team Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett; “economic superstar” Thomas Piketty; and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek who will visit Zagreb again in January.
