Hypocrisy as the core of everyday life

The last premiere of the City Theater, which ends this year's cycle of dramatic productions of the Budva festival, the drama "Aveti" by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Andrej Nosov, dominated by a great cast - Mirjana Karanović, Branko Cvejić, Slobodan Beštić, Jovana Gavrilović and Milan Marić, accompanied to standing ovations from the stage of the Amphitheater on Sveti Stefan.

Thus, the third classical work produced by Grad Teatar this summer was "written" on the success list of the 29th festival. One of Henrik Ibsen's most performed works on world stages was co-produced with the MESS Sarajevo Festival, the Belgrade Hartefakt, and in cooperation with the BITEF Theater from Belgrade, and according to Andrej Nosov, for whom this is his first direction and first premiere at the Gradu Teatr, it is it was a great pleasure how the audience received and followed the performance.

Actress Mirjana Karanović, whom the Budva audience knows from numerous festival productions and guest performances, was awarded a special ovation for her role as Helen Alving in the play "Aveti".

"This play is very complicated, multi-layered, and everything the characters say is not what they really mean, and from the moment we started reading the text, we were constantly working to figure out how that line goes, that story, what is the truth , and what is a lie, what is actually being said to be, and what is actually being, what is being hidden, and what is being hidden. It's a complicated structure where you can't possibly find and fully discover what the motivations of those characters are. Because it's a kind of labyrinth in which they are constantly moving, and that's why somehow, at times, it seemed to me that it was all too theatrical, that it was almost like a soap opera - there are some secrets, parents, children, married and unmarried , that woman, Helen Alving, who is so somehow alien to me. I couldn't place her in myself - what is really happening to her, what is it in her, because as you move into a small part, you realize that you missed something, that you dropped something, that there is something else, so I I constantly had to go back to the beginning, and go to the end, and again from the beginning, to the end," said the famous actress.

Branko Cvejić, also a long-time good acquaintance of the City of Theater and as an actor certainly a favorite of the local audience, after three years, he again received a standing ovation, and rightly so - the character of Jakov Engstrand is an absolutely complete and "rounded" acting skill.

The drama, which opens many "points" and themes in the best sense, is accompanied by the scenography of Mirna Ler, costumes by Lejla Hodžić, and choreography by Nikola Tomašević.