The new season at the Royal Theater "Zetski dom" will be marked by the premiere of the play "Under Both Suns", which will be performed on Sunday at 20 p.m. The play is based on the novel of the same name Ognje Spahić, dramatization Stella Miskovic, and directed Boris Liješević, while they interpret the roles Mrđan Grahovac, Varja Djukic, Marija Maša Labudović, Vule Marković, Goran Vujović, Jelica Vukcevic i Jelena Laban.
The novel "Pod oba Sunca" was created by the Montenegrin writer Ognjen Spahić at the invitation of the Royal Theatre, and was published in 2020.
The artistic director of "Zetski dom" Lidija Dedović said that she believes that the play will touch the soul of the contemporary audience of the 21st century in a special way.
"We gathered around this precious novel as around a treasure that with its light in a certain way sheds light on topics that were covered up, hidden, but also topics that concern us," Dedović said, adding that this play analyzes various wounds. from the past, but at the same time it also talks about love, its tenacious endurance, strength, combativeness, sacrifice, but also destruction.
Announcing Sunday's premiere, director Boris Liješević said that the novel is about a married couple who have lived for 27 years at a lighthouse in the far south of the country, and that since the events that drastically affected their lives and their destinies.
"We have people who have been changed by loneliness and isolation, changed their characters and relationships, who live in silence, who are thus entangled in the past, who have stopped at one moment in life and it seems as if it no longer flows. In the second part of the play, they receive uninvited guests, two young people who want to camp near the lighthouse. After 27 years, they meet some people again, life wakes up again and laughter and screams start to ring out, a new atmosphere. However, the question is whether, after so many years of silence, abandonment and loneliness, a new life is welcome", emphasizes the director.
The author of the dramatization, Stela Mišković, says that almost every sentence from Spahić's novel, that is, a line from the play, is so meaningful that the theme and essence of the play can be wrapped around each one.
"We are talking about people whose hearts are bleeding, who spent their hearts on a state that no longer exists, on duties and an ideology that is meaningless and ridiculed by today's younger generations. "They spent their hearts on grief for an unborn child or unfulfilled offspring, on suffering, on hatred, on compromises," adds Mišković.
The actor Srđan Grahovac expressed his special satisfaction for working again with the director Liješević, as well as the members of the acting ensemble of "Zetaski dom".
"There is one thing in this novel that intrigued me a lot, and that is when Bato Lončar, captain of the XNUMXst class, and I play him, says: "And we were happy". We have certainly all experienced this in some examples in our lives, that there is a certain period of time in which everything works, and then, in some strange course, everything turns upside down and starts a detour from which there is no return. Why and how - this novel explains that very well", says Grahovac.
According to actress Varja Đukić, the play "Under Both Suns" will mark the current moment in the theater and in society.
"It's something that should be a kind of template for the necessary stories that we haven't told. The play, like the novel, deals with the story of two generations - one to which my colleague Srđan Grahovac and I belong, and the other generation to which younger colleagues belong, who are faced with different but, in fact, related dramas," says actress Varja Đukić.
Actress Marija Maša Labudović is also satisfied with the process.
"The play also abounds in monologue forms that require great responsibility, dedication, concentration, attention, in which your only partner is the audience, and those monologue forms were a big challenge for me, which I hope I answered", pointed out Labudović, while speaking about the role of Mitra, the actor Vula Marković emphasizes that when a person dwells enough in a lie, he himself stops perceiving what is true and what is not.
"Actually, it changes us in a way that we somehow kill ourselves, reduce, cancel and that every decision we make, we make in relation to what we did or what we didn't say, and that's exactly what happened with Mitra," concludes Marković.
Actress Jelica Vukčević also plays several different roles, who pointed out that she is grateful for the director's assessment that she can play five completely different characters, different people, with different stories, and that it was very challenging for her, while Goran Vujović says that it is a big challenge was to work on the character he portrays, who is the embodiment of evil.
Actress Jelena Laban especially highlighted the exceptional collaboration she had with the composer during the process Ninom Perovic, and discovered that she, like Vukčević, plays several different roles.
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