"It's like he's alone among everyone" - the story of Blagota Eraković

The book by Aleksandar Milosavljević is dedicated to the great Montenegrin theater director and will be presented today at the CNP

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Photo: Srđan Pavićević
Photo: Srđan Pavićević
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Promotion of the book "Among everyone, as if he were alone - the story of Blagota Eraković", to the famous Montenegrin director, author Aleksandar Milosavljević, will be held today at the Montenegrin National Theatre (CNP) at 18 pm, and admission is free.

"This is another major publishing project of the national theatre, and the director of the CNP will speak at the promotion." Ilija Subotic, author of the book and theater critic Aleksandar Milosavljević, editor of the publication Vasko Raičević, producer and university professor Janko Ljumović and director Blagota Eraković," the CNP statement said.

Blagota Eraković was born in 1944 in Nikšić and is a prominent theatre director. Since the late 1960s, he has been permanently engaged at the Montenegrin National Theatre in Titograd, after which he was also the artistic director of the first Montenegrin theatre festival “Igre juga” in Budva. During his career, he directed more than 100 theatre plays in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia. He was the director of the Montenegrin National Theatre, and in 2004 he directed the first play produced by the Royal Theatre “Zetski dom”. He has directed some of the most successful and longest-running Montenegrin theatre plays. He has received numerous awards, including the Thirteenth of July Award.

"I cannot imagine my life without theater. Theater is the art form closest to man. All other arts address the audience indirectly, through books, canvases, instruments and various sound carriers, images... while theater addresses man directly, face to face," says Eraković...

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