71. Sterijino Pozorje Festival Selector’s Report
SELECTOR’S REPORT
FOR THE 70th STERIJINO POZORJE FESTIVAL
26. MAY - 3. JUNE 2026.
OUR STORIES
Memories and losses
Today, seventy years after the founding of the Sterijino Pozorje, this festival – which initially featured only the works of Jovan Sterija Popović, but now features theaters from the country and the region presenting works by domestic writers – remains the most important theatrical event in Serbia.
“All that was good will be recorded by history,” wrote Jovan Sterija Popović in the preface to his play The Patriots….
Competition selection
71. Sterjino Pozorje Festival
LADY NOLA
TUESDAY , 26. MAY 2026. at 8PM
SNT, Stage „Pera Dobrinović“
THE CABINET MINISTER’S WIFE
WEDNESDAY , 27. MAY2026. at 8 PM časova
SNT, Stage „Pera Dobrinović“
THE PROFESSIONAL
THURSDAY , 28. MAY 2026. at 9 PM / FRIDAY, 29. MAY at 9 PM
and SATURDAY , 30. MAY at 9 PM
Novi Sad Theatre / Újvidéki Színház
WHY IS HE LAUGHING?
SATURDAY , 30. MAY 2026. at 7 PM
SNT, Stage „Jovan Đorđević“
(Audiance is on the stage)
TRACKS
SUNDAY , 31. MAY 2026. at 6 PM and 9 PM
SNT, Stage „Jovan Đorđević“
(Audiance is on the stage)
MY THEATRE
MONDAY , 1. JUNE 2026. at 5 PM i 9 PM
SNT, Stage „Jovan Đorđević“
(Audiance is on the stage)
QUIET HOURS FROM TWO TO SIX
MONDAY, 1. JUNE 2026. at 7 PM
and TUESDAY 2. JUNE at 7 PM
Novi Sad Theatre – Újvidéki Színház
HUMOR CENTRAL
TUESDAY , 2. JUN 2026. at 9 PM
SNT, Stage „Jovan Đorđević“
Performance in honor of the award winners
GALA CONCETR in honor of award winners
8 PM / SNT Stage „Jovan Đorđević”
Serbian National Theatre Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Mikica Jevtić
Soloists: Željko Lučić, Sonja Šarić, Vesna Đurković, Jelena Končar i Stevan Karanac
“ Dokle se god budemo samo hvalili, slabosti i pogreške prikrivali, u povesnici učili koliko je ko od predaka naših junačkih glava odrubio, a ne i gde je s puta sišao, donde ćemo hramati i ni za dlaku nećemo biti bolji.“
Jovan Sterija Popović
Selector 71st of the Sterijino pozorje Festival
Svetislav Bule Goncić
He was born on May 5, 1960, in Kladovo. He completed primary school “Banović Strahinja” and the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium in Belgrade. He graduated in acting from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Minja Dedić in 1982. He has been a permanent member of the ensemble of Atelje 212 Theatre since 1983 as a lead actor.
He was the President of the Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia from 1996 to 1998, the director of the Terazije Theatre from 1998 to 2000, the director of the Vuk Theatre (Cultural Institution “Vuk Stefanović Karadžić”) from 2015 to 2022, the president of the Managing Board of the National Theatre in Belgrade from 2020 to 2021, the director of the National Theatre in Belgrade from November 2022 to July 2025, and has been an acting director of the National Theatre in Belgrade since 2021…
