Atelje 212 (Serbian Cyrillic: Атеље 212) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Established in 1956 on the premises of the Borba building in front of 212 chairs, its opening play was the staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust directed by Mira Trailović. Although the theater's official inauguration took place on 12 November 1956, various plays had already been staged throughout 1956 by the same group of individuals. The most notable such staging was the summer 1956 semi-clandestine performance of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot—a play that had been banned in all Communist countries—in front of some forty people on a ramshackle makeshift stage in painter Mića Popović's private atelier. The concealed performance came on the heels of a planned Godot staging in the Belgrade Drama Theatre (BDP)—being prepared by theater director Vasilije Popović with Ljuba Tadić, Rade Marković, Bata Paskaljević, Mića Tomić, and Tatjana Lukjanova among the cast—getting banned one year earlier. After this makeshift performance, the troupe grew into a theater that got its home in the Borba building later that year. On 17 December 1956, Godot had a proper premiere at the new location, which was its first performance that was open to the general public in post-World War II Eastern Europe. More information...
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