The play "Iphigenia", produced by the Kolašin Culture Center with the co-producers of the NGO "Korifej Teatar" from that city and the Bijelo Polska Culture Center, will be played on February 3 in the Bitef Theater in Belgrade, as part of the Month of the Independent Scene.
The play, which premiered in 2021 in Kolašin, was directed by Zoran Rakočević. The play features Anđelija Rondović, Jelena Đukić, Đorđije Tatić, Petar Novaković and Moamer Kasumović, and students act at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts from Cetinje in the class of Professor Branimir Popović, Una Lučić and Ognjen Sekulić. Part of the acting team is musician Bojan Peko Minič, who is also the author of the music, while Jelena Šoškić signs the pre-production.
The play is based on Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis". Rakočević previously said that Euripides' work is current even two and a half thousand years after his birth, and that it continues as such, receiving new interpretations, actualization and focus. "Iphigenia", as it has been said, is a piece of human catastrophe and deals with "a class of people, who are so in possession of power that they have forgotten that they are people".
"We've been dealing with the way they function with each other, how dispossessed they are, how numb their emotions are, and how absolutely incapable they are of anything other than channeling that power, dealing with higher things, politics, or anything beyond the ordinary. , normal human life and family context. How capable are these people to love, to keep the family together, to have, nurture and guide their child. That context is very current here, and it is possible to show it in this plot that Euripides offers", said the director about the play, among other things.
"Iphigenia" won the award for the best play as a whole at the International Theater Festival in Pristina (PITF), and Jelena Đukić, for the role of Clytemnestra, received the award for the best episodic role. Đukić was also awarded for the best female role at the International Festival of Ancient Theater "Stobi" Veles. Besides her, at that festival Đorđije Tatić, who portrays the character of Agamemnon, received the award for the best male role.
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