Театар (без) интелигенције
Theater (without) of Intelligence

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of the text, David Bohm’s dialogue theory is presented and the possibilities of its theatrical application are suggested. Inspired by discoveries from quantum mechanics, the famous physicist explains the dialogue as a stream of meaning that flows between the participants, while he sees the commonly understood verbal conversation only as a limited framework, even the opposite of a real dialogue. The theatrical implications of this theory are considered stimulating not only in the research of theatrical communication as an active information field, but also in areas such as theater historiography. Particular benefits are seen in the reconstruction of the initial stages in the development of phenomena, where the differences in the levels of performers, audience and dramatic test, also understood as participants in a wider understood dialogue, are most easily observed. As an example, particular benefits are seen of Joakim Vujić from the beginning of the 19th century, and his themes, as well as the limited scope of their marketing. We look for the reasons for this failure, first of all, in Vujić’s efforts to mechanically apply a Central European, Enlightenment theater model, whose themes the audience did not consider close. On the other hand, Vujić’s complex theatrical experience, sometimes at the level of bad taste, will reveal to us unexpected potentials in the depiction of human stupidity as the basis of a communication whose complexity we only manage to perceive today.

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