The fourth Autumn theater salon in Bijelo Polje ended last night with the performance of the Coryfej Theater play "The Cross with Five Arms", written by Velizar Radonjić, directed by Zoran Rakočević.
According to the author of the text, "Cross with five branches" is an autopsy finding of rotten post-transitional tissue, with a precise diagnosis that points to serious diseases of the system.
Actress Anđelija Rondović, who was also in charge of stage movements, said that they tried to enhance some dramatic elements with selected stage movements.
"We are glad that on this non-working day, the play was sent off by the people of Bjelopolje in a very beautiful way. It talks about things that are currently happening around us, which, unfortunately, happened 20-30 years ago," she said. she.
Velizar Radonjić, journalist, publicist, satirist and playwright from Podgorica, 2017/2018. he wrote the dramatic text "The Cross with Five Arms", which was selected among the three best texts at the competition of the Montenegrin National Theater in 2019 and recommended for performance.
The jury consisted of Božo Koprivica, playwright, Željka Udovicic Pleština, playwright and Goran Bulajić, playwright.
According to the jury's assessment, "The Five-Pointed Cross" is: "..a dramatic text that sublimates within one family and one attempt to bury all the pains of political and other thefts and interests, skilfully demystifying all the misery and shame of this kind of 'trade' in these transitional countries of ours, who understand democracy in a really special way".
The text was published in the magazine "Pozorište" no. 44, published by the Nikšić Theater and in the book Collected Plays by the same publisher in 2022, where the reviewer Dr. Radoje Femić states:
"Velizar Radonjić's play The Cross with the Pentacle thematizes the conflict between two ideological-political principles, brought to absurdity in an imaginary microspace that becomes the scene of an unscrupulous political struggle, with elements of bizarre twists that evoke the self-destructive character of our collective nature".
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