Aleksandar Đenić
Faculty of Media and Communications
University Singidunum, Belgrade, Serbia
aleksandar.djenic.20194011@fmk.edu.rs
Research paper
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7788087
Received: 3. 8. 2022.
Accepted: 15. 2. 2023.
Abstract: In the historical moment of the general dominance of electronic media, theatrical concepts and practices are gaining more and more importance. The subject of research in this paper will be the theatre play „General Milan Nedić“ by Siniša Kovačević, which, in political and public discourse, normalised the role of the president of the Quisling government in Serbia, headed by General Milan Nedić during the Nazi occupation. In addition to political normalisation, according to the author’s idea, the play was supposed to show a new look at the historical figure of Milan Nedić, that is, his role in the political and social processes that took place during and after the Second World War in Serbia. The play is imbued with Nedić’s family and political tragedies, doubts, and fears, as well as insecurities in making decisions and facing the challenges that lay before him and the entire Serbian nation. The play „General Milan Nedić“ participates in the constitution of a certain value system that tends to break with the ideological narrative that was current in the era of socialism, absolving it of responsibility for the implementation of the Holocaust and the suffering of Roma, communists, anti-fascists, and all those people who opposed the Nazis. Analysing this performance, the existence of a connection between theatre and politics will be seen, i.e., the possibility that theatre represents a very significant and efficient medium, which through synopsis determines the stage medium of theatre as a means of perception, seeing, and understanding that is not passive or neutral but has a clear goal. Per its ideological goal, the play itself represents a training ground for changes in the narrative structure according to historical „memory“, in the context of re-evaluating the anti-fascist heritage, using theatre as a medium to promote its ideological and political ideas.
Keywords: theatre, media, tradition, memory, war, collaboration
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