"The Silencing of Socrates" is the best play of the Čortanovci festival

The play "The Silencing of Socrates", directed by Do not be afraid Bradić and co-produced by the Tivat Cultural Center and Bitef Theater, it was performed last Sunday at the 12th edition of the ambient theater festival Novi Tvrđava Theater in Čortanovci, Serbia.

The competitive selection of the festival this year included the plays “The Silencing of Socrates” (Tivat Cultural Center and Bitef Theater), “Tesla” (Duško Radović Theater), “Play Chekhov” (Portal Theater, Faculty of Contemporary Arts), “Professional” (Street Theater), and “Nadpop Kojović” (Podgorica City Theater and Budva City Theater).

Jury, in composition Vladimir Kopicl, writer and president of the jury, Nenad Caveman, actor, and Nevena Eric, an acting student, decided to present “The Silencing of Socrates” and award three significant awards.

The play, co-produced by the Tivat Cultural Center, won the award for best overall performance, for "a cultivated approach and convincing stage result which, with precise acting solutions and a thoughtful discussion of democracy and ethics in general, touches on and underlines important issues of our time."

The award for best direction was given to Nebojša Bradić, director of the play "The Silencing of Socrates".

"Without decorative excess and with visible confidence in the chosen text and the acting team, Bradić minimalistically and devotedly arranges the complex polemical layers of Barker's play into a dynamic stage unity, allowing the lively five-member debate about the life and death of democracy to resonate in a tone that is somewhat more relaxed than expected, but also allowing the Socratic ethical lesson about the necessity of resistance to grow strongly on stage until the very end of the play," the jury's decision stated.

The award for best actress went to Sanji Ristic Krajnov for the role of Xanthippe in the play "The Silencing of Socrates".

"Throughout the entire play, she balances masterfully on the edge of comedy and tragedy, which forms the dramatic axis of Howard Brenton's text and Nebojša Bradić's direction, while fragments of her life's polemics with a feminist-politically passionate and life-contradictory Jelena Stupljanin "in the role of Aspasia, she turns it into some of the best moments of this festival performance," the jury's explanation reads.

Another festival story has concluded, in which "The Silencing of Socrates" attracted special attention from the audience and the jury, confirming its success through six awards won in three festival participations so far, the Tivat Cultural Center stated yesterday.