Individual and individual destinies are often a representation of life and the world in miniature.
In the theater, such stories have the power to give a global picture of the world that surrounds us, but also a representation of the community of which we are a part. Playwright Željka Udovičić Plenština points out that such is the play "The Fans", which is staged by a Montenegrin director on the stage of the Royal Theater Zetski dom Ana Vukotić.
The premiere of the play "The Admirer", which Vukotić directed and adapted from the one-act plays "Autogram za Milica" and "The Admirer", by a contemporary Croatian playwright Mata Matisic, will be performed tomorrow at the Royal Theater at 20 p.m.
In addition to the direction and adaptation, she also designed the play, and she did the dramaturgy together with Udovičić Pleština Rajko Radulović. She was in charge of costume design Lina Lekovic, projection and video installation Ivan Marušić Cliff, scenography Andrea Rondovic, music Aleksandar Radunović, while she is an assistant director Nina Martinović.
The acting ensemble consists of: Dejan Ivanić, Ana Vujošević, Vule Marković, Marija Maša Labudović, Goran Vujović, Jelica Vukčević i Vukan Pejović.
Udovičić Pleština pointed out that Matišić is a writer who is extremely present on regional scenes at the moment, and that the two one-act plays, on which "The Fan" is based, are connected by the main male character, but even more so by the female characters.
"Precisely those female characters and their destinies were our dramaturgical and directorial inspiration during the process. "Dramas are formally separate entities from a dramaturgical point of view, but the walking of these characters from one drama to another and the possibility of transition is something that unites them," she said.
The playwright emphasizes that the fates of the characters are tragic despite the fact that they are shaded with humor and irony, simultaneously raising local and global topics.
"Their destinies thus give a global picture of the world that surrounds us, and also emanate some other topics that we are surrounded by, namely corruption, crime, hypocrisy, careerism and everything else that exists around us", pointed out Udovicic-Pleština.
The preparation of the play itself earned the attention of the European Theater Convention ETC, the most influential theater network in Europe, and information about the completion of the first stage of rehearsals was published on their website, with a comment from the playwright and director. On that occasion, Udovičić Plenština and Vukotićeva reminded that the play combines two one-act plays, and that the main male characters and, on the other hand, female characters from the past were the initiators of the action and the inspiration for the narrative lines, motives and plots.
"The plays are formally and dramaturgically separate, but they are connected to those characters whose fates smoothly transition from one play to another. Each of the women has her own problem, her own story, her own way of fighting for life, showing the environment in which they live as a dominant male society. Fragments of those lives create the mosaic of this play. The male protagonists are left with a choice: either they renounce their own conscience, or they choose to be part of the hypocritical community they belong to, in which they exist according to the established twisted logic of things...", they stated on that occasion.
The piece is characterized by humorously shaded situations and witty, recognizable dialogues, which Vukotićeva and Udovicic Plenština characterized as "almost typical, open, fluid and easy". With such an approach, he will present important, general topics and process individual destinies that, despite humorous, ironic interventions, hide personal tragedies and thus reflect global problems.
Especially inspiring in the dramaturgical process was playing and discovering what is reality and what is fiction, where is the truth and where is a lie, they said and added that the mixing of time, place and perception of reality of different characters opens up a space that renounces realism, so thus the stage becomes the scene of confrontation between reality and imagination and the meeting place of the living and the dead.
The repeat performance of the repertoire is the day after the premiere, on November 26 at 20 p.m., and tickets at a price of five and seven euros can be purchased at the box office of the Royal Theater "Zetski dom" from 13 a.m. to 18 p.m. and from 20 p.m. to 067428655 p.m. The phone number for additional information is XNUMX.
About people who identify with some of the roles they play
Actor Vula Marković, while announcing the play, singled out the sentence that Mate Matišić said at the end of the play through the character of Mata:
"I don't know if it's because of some mental illness, from which I suffer without knowing it, or because of my professional deformity - more and more often I perceive people as characters", reads the sentence that increasingly acts as the backbone of the life drama that unfolds on everyday scenes.
Marković adds that he identifies with that, as do, he believes, many of his colleagues.
"I don't think there is an actor who didn't think in that direction while observing life around him, and somehow didn't articulate it the way he articulated it. So this is a play about characters, people who have identified themselves with some of the roles they play in their lives: professional, ideological, political... These are some convictions in which people have simply gone too far, so to speak," Marković said. .
Actor Goran Vujović, for whom this was the second process of working with director Ana Vukotić, believes that "The Fan" will be another good play.
"If you know the day by the morning, I hope that this show will be as successful as the previous one we worked on together", he concluded.
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