THEATER performances continued in Sarajevo despite the war. In 1993 Susan Sontag returned to the besieged city to perform Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

“I can no longer be a spectator only. When I return [to Sarajevo], that would be hard work and doing something meaningful,” the Manhattan-born novelist, essayist and activist told the New York Review on her arrival back in America.

For Sontag, who died of leukemia in December 2004,