Sarajevo Youth Theatre ( ) is a children 's and youth theatre in Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina . It was founded in 1950 under the name '' Pioneer Theatre '' . It is the largest theatre of its kind in the country . After the Second World War the new Yugoslav communist authorities started a large programme of cultural and artistic expansion . In 1950 two theatres aimed at children were established in Sarajevo : the Pioneer Theatre and the Puppet Theatre . The former did not have its own professional ensemble , but would book actors from more established Yugoslav theatres for individual productions . The latter , managed by Adolf Pomezni , mostly focused on marionette-based productions . In 1961 the Pioneer Theatre , managed at the time by founder of the MESS International Theatre Festival Jurislav Korenić , formed its first professional ensemble and changed its name to the Sarajevo Youth Theatre . In 1977 the Puppet Theatre was fused with the Sarajevo Youth Theatre . At this time notable productions included J.Skupa-K . Venig 's Srećko među bubama , Josip Vandot 's Kekec , Pinocchio by D.Bibanović , Alice in Wonderland by L.Paljetka , Šimić 's Palčić Dugonja and Cinderella , D.Todorović 's Na Lutkarskoj , Shakespeare 's The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors , Aristophanes 's The Birds , Homer 's Odyssey , Alfred Jarry 's Ubu Roi , Držić 's Novela od Stanca , Eugène Ionesco 's Exit the King , Kurićeva Beauty and the Beast , Lukić 's I opet Nusic and Bašeskija , san o Sarajevu and many others . With the start of the Siege of Sarajevo and the Bosnian war in 1992 the theatre continued to operate and , in cooperation with the MESS International Theatre Festival and a hand full of theatre professionals that included Haris Pašović and Gradimir Gojer , continued to host theatre productions . Numerous renowned directors , including Susan Sontag , directed productions in the theatre during the Siege . It was commercially reopened in 1997 and was rebuilt in 2016 .
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