The Montenegrin National Theater, in cooperation with the Royal Theater Zetski dom, has started working on the restoration of the play "Princess Xenia of Montenegro - The exiled mourner of the house of Petrović", according to the text and direction Radmile Vojvodic, which will premiere in Podgorica and Cetinje in February next year, it was announced from the CNP PR department.
The drama "Princess Xenia of Montenegro" by Radmila Vojvodić, after the successful life of the play since its premiere in 1994 and performed on home stages and on numerous guest appearances until the beginning of the XNUMXs, will have its second premiere performance in a new directorial and dramaturgical reading of the author.
It premiered in Zetski dom on February 10, 1994 in Cetinje, and in the renovated CNP in Podgorica and in co-production with the Royal Theater Zetski dom premiered in 1997, while the hundredth performance was marked by playing on December 16, 1998.
The play acquired a cult status, as a theatrical story that goes directly into the historical memory, and according to theater critics, the relationship between the audience and the stage was established through particularly strong emotions, almost reverentially, as the theater expert writes. Feliks Pašić, which makes her a theatrical phenomenon.
"If in the nineties of the last century, when the Yugoslav state was destroyed, you did not pack your suitcases and bundles out of necessity, fleeing from the scourges of war or mobilization, if you did not make that decision in anger and disappointment, then you were in the anguish of internal exile... So, for example, you , said: long live the theater. You worked by taking risks and acting in solidarity at a play or going to the theater to see that play.
Yes, the event of this play did come from the theater, but it had nothing to do with it alone.
And today it seems polemically and politically even more current and challenging to reach for that specific civic gloss from the time when Montenegro was terra incognita in 1918; the exile or self-immolation of its sovereign, it doesn't matter, because the Montenegrin internal exile continues to this day. The road to reworking the play is not a mere remake project. This topic is a sufficiently explosive potential for a new theatrical performance, in a new way theatrically healing", says Vojvodić.
He is a playwright Bozo Koprivica, costume designer Boris Cakshiran, stage designer Marija Kalabić, composer Žarko Mirković, are executive producers Danilo Milatović i Vukosava Tomović.
The roles are played by: Varja Đukić, Ana Vučković, Dejan Ivanić, Izudin Bajrović, Gorana Marković, Aleksandar Radulović, Jelena Laban, Slobodan Marunović, Dušan Kovačević, Nada Vukčević i Lazar Đurđević.
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