How much is Branislav Nusic the play "Deceased" which was performed as part of the 18th International Festival of Actors in Nikšić showed its all-time. It is a joint project of the Montenegrin National Theater and the Tivat Cultural Center.
"If Nušić wanted to make us laugh in previous dramas, here he wanted to make us laugh," he said Vanja Kovačević, moderator of the round table organized after the performance.
And Nušić had (and still has) something to laugh at.
"The Deceased is a testament and the fiercest criticism of society that Nušić wrote. Spasoje Blagojević, whom I play, no matter how cunning, cunning, greedy he is, he would sell everything and everyone, he would not be able to achieve what he wanted if the state and the entire apparatus were not behind him. And it was very fierce. Nušić also said through that company 'Iliria', which is another name for Yugoslavia, how corrupt that society is to the core and how perverted the government is. We have Spasoje Blagojević as much as you want, but when someone from the Government stands behind him, then anything is possible. First of all, he deals with us, with himself, and every bad order and bad regime rests on the fact that each of us has a price. It is tragic that all our societies can still be recognized in this, because nothing has changed since 1937", he said. Marko Bacovic.
Unlike him, Slobodan Marunović believes that a lot has changed.
"It has changed 370 thousand times since the era when it was created - we have become so much worse, more dishonest, worse, more insincere. Everyone ends up applauding, and I don't think they recognize themselves. The play has the ambition of 'slapping', but everyone thinks the play is talking about the other. The piece is in agreement with the motto of this festival - let's be surprised by the familiar", said Marunović.
Bojan Dimitrijevic in the play, he plays Pavlo Marić, an honest man who was betrayed by everyone - his wife, friends, colleagues, but also the state and the entire system.
"That is the fate of most people who are honest in our countries. They generally have a bad time and if there is some injustice they cannot enforce justice. There is almost no family in Serbia that does not have someone close to them abroad, someone of theirs who left Serbia. We have evicted entire cities of honest, educated and highly cultured people. We remain to be humiliated, humiliated and disenfranchised with such a state apparatus. And at that time when the play was created, and it seems to me even today, that nothing has changed - honest people who are right, if some evil force stands in their way, they are powerless. In a way, the good in people has become powerless in the face of evil," said Dimitrijević, without any fear of sounding pessimistic.
Unfortunately, that is the reality. He also notices that Branka Otašević, who plays Rina, an adulteress, but also a woman who is able to "bury her husband alive" for the second time for the sake of her lover and comfort.
"Unfortunately, there are many Rins today and I don't feel good when I see them. You need to be able to get up, and even more to be able to fall asleep and be Rina today", believes Branka.
Goran Vujović made an effort to "paint" the swindler Ant with a touch of likability and admits that this was his goal.
"I don't like to talk about my experience of the characters I play in order not to limit the space for the audience to see it with their own eyes," Vujović said.
He adapted and directed the play Egon Savin, and in it, in addition to Baćović, Dimitrijević, Marunović, Vujović and Branka Otašević, they also play Aleksandar Radulović, Lazar Dragojevic, Slavko Kalezić, Stevan Vuković, Dejan Ivanic, Stevan Radusinović, Radmila Božović, Jadranka Mamić, Dragan Racic i Slobodan Vujadinović.
The actor's festival, organized by the Nikšić Theater and under the auspices of the Municipality of Nikšić and the Ministry of Culture and Media, ends on Sunday, November 13, when the jury will present the awards - grand prix for the best male and female role, grand prix for the best episodic male and female role and the grand prix for the best partnership on stage. In honor of the awardees, the play "People's Representative" will be performed, which, according to Nušić's text, was adapted and directed by Goran Bulajic, in which they play Stevan Vuković, Marija Đurić, Maša Božović, Nikola Vasiljevic, Anja Drljević, Matija Memedović, Boban Cvorovic, Milica Kekic, Pavle Bogojević, Lazar Đurđević, Belizar Kasalica i Nebojsa Vulanović.
Social conformity and political self-interest laid bare
Tonight is the last performance in the competition. It is about the play "Enemy of the People", by the Macedonian National Theater from Skopje, which is based on the work Henrik Ibsen directed Nina Nikolić. He signs the dramaturgy Tamara Barachkov, she did the scenography Višnja Vujović, costumes Ivana Karanfilovska-Ugurovska, he composed the music Jorgos Dusos, and is a choreographer Karis Peklivanidis.
The roles in the play, written by Ibsen in 1882, are played by: Nikola Ristanovski, Zvezdana Angelovska, Darja Rizova, Jana Veljanovska, Lana Grpcevski, Blagoj Veselinov, Petre Arsovski, Saška Dimitrovska, Aleksandar Mihajlovski, Nino Levi i Martin Djorgoski.
"The drama perfectly corresponds to the crisis that our society is facing again and again - through the ostracism of Dr. Stockman from the community, Ibsen skillfully exposed social conformity and political self-interest, showed the mechanism by which any attempt by an individual to speak about systemic injustice is automatically characterized as treasonous and conspiratorial . At the same time, the doctor's suffering is a consequence of his desire to point out the problem of polluted water, which, in the light of the local awareness of the importance of environmental protection, makes Ibsen's play even more intriguing for today's reading and performance. The public enemy also opens up an important dilemma that is examined in the current environmental struggles - how to treat something that is, on the one hand, a source of pollution and infection, and on the other, the main (often the only) source of income for the majority of the population of that region? Dr. Stockman is the paradigm of a modern engaged man, but he is also an idealist who believes that change is possible, and that immediate sacrifice is necessary, no matter how painful it may be. Perhaps at the beginning unaware of the outcome and problems that his uncompromising attitude will bring him, despite the blows given to him by society, led by the ruling political structure and fickle journalists, Dr. Stockman through challenges and falls, matures and strengthens, becomes aware and strengthens his final goals. , the playwright wrote Tamara Barachkov.
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