Sanya Nikcevic will explore the changes--both organizational and aesthetic--that took place in the theaters of Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Specifically, she will consider how theatres that were once highly subsided by the government coped with the new
reality of diminished funding and also whether they benefitted from the greater artistic freedom they now enjoyed. She will also examine how theater has responded to these
and other dramatic changes that occurred in the aftermath of communism.

Dr. Sanja Nikcevic, a Fulbright visiting scholar in the UCSB Drama Department and Resident Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, teaches in the Graduate Program in Literature, University of Zadar, Croatia. She edited Anthology of American
Plays (1994) and has written The Subversive American Drama or Sympathy for Losers (1994) and Affirmative American Drama or Hurray for Puritans (2002). She is currently the editor of the journal Theatre (Kazalište) (1998) and The Series Mansions (1994).

This event is cosponsored by Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Department of Drama.