The Glembays in Belgrade, an unexpected foreplay and a muted reaction from those who had to thunder. Like this, as if they were playing Nusic, and no I'm ticking.
The entire exile, with all its nuances (Montenegrins are coming to play Croats, right at this moment? Ustasha business, of course) nevertheless clearly shows the face of the Director. Not the one who was exiled (they just embellished his biography, to be honest), but the other one, the Great Director of Everything and Everyone. The fruit of the unnatural fornication of imagination Žak Popović i George Orwell.
One must think that secret police agents in Serbia have not dealt with culture this thoroughly since Tito's time. And his secret police, which was known for its refined and sensitive ear for culture.
Here's a story from my student days - the father of my good friend from the World Cup, RP (he was a talented poet, the poem “Treći Rom”, Vidici, late eighties, later TV career) was a retired UDBA member, but of a lower rank. A dedicated operative. Sometimes he entertained us with his adventures. Once he told how he had gone from a partisan - a peasant - to the most educated man possible: he was in charge of monitoring reruns of theater plays. A more reputable UDBA member would do the premiere, several of them, certainly, the audience was selected... When we asked - why they also “processed” reruns, the old UDBA member explained with a smile - theater is not a movie, so you shoot it once and that's it forever... I monitored whether an actor would change the given text, insert some anti-regime association, and therefore - every rerun. “That's how I got my education - I knew everything by heart, from Shakespeare i Chekhov do Sterile i Ibsen... You must prepare for the task.”
I remembered him last weekend, with a play within a play (or a play within a play), this provincial spectacle directed by Vučić and his secret police. Of course - in comparison to his great idol Tito, he must always turn out to be a parody, a caricature, the worst student who messes up even the easiest tasks and doesn't do them properly...
We'll soon be able to say that the greatest insult would be if Vučić's Cerberus didn't kick you out of Serbia. (You're explaining how someone is orthodox and insignificant: they wouldn't even turn them back from the Serbian border.)
Director's expulsion Marunović It's a scandal, no matter how you look at it, but what surprised me even more than Vučić's operetta was the inadequate, deeply wrong reaction of the Montenegrin National Theatre. As if all this wasn't happening to them, but to someone outside the orbit of this play and the national theatre?
The platitude about the "victory of art" is nothing more than convenient self-deception. CNP was not supposed to play that evening. This is how we got - "How to Make the Master Laugh".
Elevated political temperatures in BG, Vidovdan tensions, protests and counter-protests, all of that was an almost ideal stage for (another) stupidity by the Vučić regime.
On the other hand, perhaps this reaction of the CNP shows an important problem on the Montenegrin political scene.
How many times do you have the feeling that you see a similar thing in Montenegrin political life: there is no way for those who supposedly defend true values to react properly. Here and there, a public oath, waving at some common places, "hydropower plants will also sing", but when it comes to clearly defending some civic principle, everyone disappears into party calculations. This truly shows the narrow-mindedness and lack of principles of one government.
However, unlike politicians, you expect an attitude without calculations from artists.
And the Great Director?
No matter how hard he tries to leave the impression of a winner, when he collapses like this (embarrassed) on the street and in the theater, what else is left for him but dictatorial solitude. To play with his poodles (like Comrade Tito, of course), to hang medals and chains around their necks... To call them names and throw them colorful balls.
As we have seen, that is exactly what he did.
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