Theatre City and Identity: Narodno pozorište-Nepszίnház-KPGT

<jats:p>This study considers the concept of Theatre City and its role in the formation of the desired identity of a community. More specifically, the research is at a crossroads of sociological and anthropological use of this theater form, in a function of the reconstruction of the community, examining the relationship between theater and the city, as a functional European theater concept, which has the potential to generate multiple socio-cultural values, participating in the formation of the so-called free spaces, free theater, which rejects the idea of elitism because it is intended for the wider population.&#x0D; In this regard, the subject of this research is the concept of Subotica Theatre City established by National Theater-Nepszίnház-KPGT in the context of creating a (multicultural) identity of the community, while the focus is on socio-anthropological, philosophical and aesthetic analyse of the play Madach, the comments, which was the inaugural project of the new aesthetic and cultural policy of the city of Subotica in the former Yugoslavia in 1985.</jats:p>