JDP commemorates actress Marija Crnobori

BELGRADE - The Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP) held on Tuesday a commemoration for actress Marija Crnobori, famous for her roles in tragedies.

Crnobori died in Belgrade on October 21 this year, aged 96.

JDP manager Tamara Vuckovic spoke about Crnobori, who was an actress of the JDP since the theatre's beginning, and she pointed out that Crnobori was one of the artists who had builtt the theatre's image.

Crnobori was born in Istria, Croatia, on October 1, 1918. She studied acting at the Acting Academy in Zagreb and later performed in Zagreb and Rijeka.

She came to Belgrade in 1947 at an invitation from JDP founder and play director Bojan Stupica.

Crnobori's most significant roles came while she worked for the JDP, like Sophocles' Antingone, Racine's Phedre, Shakespeare's Lady Magbeth (Magbeth) and Regan (King Lear), Goethe's Iphigenia (Iphigenia in Tauris).

She and her husband, play director Mark Fotez, took part in creating the Dubrovnik Summer Games, where she played Ophelia in Hamlet in 1952 and Gertrude in 1956, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Ida in the Dubrovnik Trilogy by Ivo Vojinovic.

Crnobori received awards and medals for special achievements and life's work, like Sterija's Award (1968), City of Belgrade October Award (1960), July 7 Award for Life's Work (1974) and Dobrica's Ring (1992).

She received the Charter of the Council of Chakavian Poetry Zminj and a Serbian medal in 2013.

Photo Tanjug, D. Stankovic