SUBTITLED SHOWS
Starting March 2012, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre introduces subtitles in English on a number of shows from the regular theatre repertory. In this way we wish to enrich the cultural services in our city and bring our theatrical art closer to many of the foreign nationals who reside in Belgrade.
The Main Stage "Ljuba Tadić":
• Biljana Srbljanović SKAKAVCI (LOCUSTS), Director Dejan Mijač
• Milena Marković ŠINE (TRACKS), Director Slobodan Unkovski
• Branislav Nušić TAKO JE MORALO BITI (IT HAD TO BE SO), Director Egon Savin
• Voltaire KANDID ili OPTIMIZAM (CANDIDE or OPTIMISM), Director Aleksandar Popovski
The Stage "Bojan Stupica":
• Uglješa Šajtinac HADERSFILD (HUDDERSFIELD), Director Alex Chisholm
• Ivor Martinić DRAMA O MIRJANI I OVIMA OKO NJE (A PLAY ABOUT MIRJANA AND THOSE AROUND HER), Director Iva Milošević
• Igor Štiks ELIJAHOVA STOLICA (ELIAH’S CHAIR), Director Boris Liješević
• Laza Lazarević ŠVABICA (THE KRAUT GIRL), Director Ana Đorđević
• Sarah Kane FEDRINA LJUBAV (PHAEDRA’S LOVE), Director Iva Milošević
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JERGOVIĆ: MARIJA CRNOBORI, GREAT LITTLE LIFE (ŽIVOTIĆ)
Marija Crnobori “participated in the founding of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, which is the most ambitious, and perhaps, most important theater house in the history of Yugoslavia. It was created in the same way as, for example, the Football club Partizan, as a mutual project supposed to gather the most significant actors and talents from all across the country, as it did,” says the writer Miljenko Jergović in his book review of Marija Crnobori Životić, published in the Zagreb daily newspaper Jutarnji list and online magazine Buka. Online: http://6yka.com/jergovi-marija-crnobori-velik-ivoti
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THE PLAY ELIJAH’S CHAIR ELICITED TEARS OF THE VIENNESE
An expertly guided dramatic story and precise acting in the play Elijah’s Chair, performed by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, thrilled the audience of the Viennese Theatre Akzent on the 25th January. The touring of the YDT awoke a great interest among the numerous Yugoslav Diaspora as well as the Austrian audience, who were interested in the connection between Vienna and Sarajevo, and the time of Anschluss in Vienna and Sarajevo under siege in the nineties.
The personal and family drama of the leading character played by Svetozar Cvetković, the fifty years old Austrian writer Richard Richter, who went to Sarajevo during the war to confront his unknown, real life, was watched with full attention in the packed, large hall of the Viennese theatre. The poignant search for his family roots, and the comprehension of the fact that we all are (sometimes tragically) interconnected, regardless whether we lead the comfortable ‘Western life’ or are fighting for bare survival in the Yugoslav wars, drew the tears of the audience. Sometimes absurd intertwining of fates, meridians, the past and the present, was followed with full and devoted attention. At the end, the audience rewarded the cast, Vlastimir-Đuza Stojiljković, Renata Ulmanski, Maja Izetbegović, Jelena Trkulja and Bane Jevtić – beside Cvetković – with standing ovations.
This was the first touring of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in the Theatre Akzent, whose leader of the intercultural cooperation, PhD Ile Zagorac, has been following the theatre life of the Yugo-zone closely, inviting a selection of plays to Vienna.
Eliah’s Chair will tour the Montenegrin Royal Theatre "Zetski dom" in Cetinje on the 30th January, the theatre in Tivat on the 31st January, and the Montengrin National Theatre in Podgorica on the 1st February 2012.
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ON TOUR OF VIENNA AND MONTENEGRO
This-year winner of the BITEF Grand Prix Mira Trailovic the perfromance Eliah’s Chair is touring Theater „Akzent“ in Vienna on the 25th January.
The Eliah’s Chair is a co-production of Yugoslav Drama Theatre and Festival MESS Sarajevo. Few days after Belgrade opening, Eliah’s Chair had its premiere in Sarajevo. And its touring continued: for the second time the production was performed in Sarajevo in spring 2011, and this autumn its performance in Zagreb was followed by ovations, as well as at local festivals, Theatre in One Act (Teatar u jednom dejstvu), Mladenovac and Theatre Festival Bora Stankovic (Borini pozorišni dani) in Vranje.
Eliah’s Chair is directed by Boris Liješević after the dramatization of Igor Štiks’ novel, and dramatization was made by Darko Lukić
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Touring of Eliah’s Chair is continuing in Montenegro where it is going to be performed in the Royal Theatre Zetski Dom in Cetinje on the 30th and in Tivat on the 31st January.
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JUBILEES
By the end of the last year two productions of YDT had their jubilees: the production Locusts by Biljana Srblajnović, directed by Dejan Mijač was performed for hundred times at the Ljuba Tadic Main Stage and at the Bojan Stupica Theatre for the fifty times was performed The Kraut Girl, written by Laza Lazarević and directed by Ana Djordjević.
In the meantime, the play and production Locusts have been awarded in many cateories at the theatre festival Sterijino Pozorje, and the author Biljana Srbljanović was appointed the best foreign writer in the theatre season 2005/06 for the play Locusts according respectable German theatre magazine Theater Heute.
The production The Kraut Girl won several awards in different categories at the Festival Sterijino Pozorje and as well as at the festival Vršac Theatre Autumn.
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FROM JANUARY TO JANUARY
Five Premieres
December is the best time to remember the achievements we had during the year of 2011. The Yugoslav Drama Theater has produced following premieres on the “Ljuba Tadić” Stage: the drama From the Heroic Life of the Bourgeois by the German writer Carl Sternheim and directed by Iva Milosević, Nije smrt biciklo (da ti ga ukradu)(Death is Not a Bicycle) - the latest piece by Biljana Srbljanović, directed by Slobodan Unkovski, and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard directed by Dejan Mijač. The scene of the “Bojan Stupica” Theater showed The Exiles, the work of one of the main representatives of modern literature and dramatic expression, James Joyce, which was directed by Bojan Djordjev. Finally, the Studio YDT set the play Polygraphby Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard, directed by Vladimir Popadić.
Touring
Since January this year, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre has toured twenty-two times, of which fifteen times abroad and ten times on national and international festivals. Also, the play Drama o Mirjani i onima oko nje (Drama about Mirjana and Those Around Her),written by Ivor Martinić and directed by Iva Milošević, in which the title role is performed by Mirjana Karanović, toured the international festivals Marulićevi dani (Marulić’s Days) in Split and the Small Scenes Theatre Festival in Rijeka, Croatia.
The play Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s Chair) –made in a co-production with the MESS Festival in Sarajevo – which is a dramatization of the novel by Igor Štiks, directed by Boris Liješević, toured Sarajevo on two occasions. It was also played at the 45th Bitef festival in Belgrade, as well as on the Theatre Festival in Mladenovac in a certain role, and on the festival Borini pozorišni dani (Bora's Theater Days) in Vranje, then in Zagreb and Pančevo.
Aleksandar Popovski’s play Metamorfoze (Metamorphoses) made according to Ovid, toured Pančevo and with great success at the festivals Sterijino pozorje and "Purgatorije" Festival in Tivat, Montenegro.
Teatro di Roma, a member of the European Theatre Union along with the YDT, has invited the play Phaedra's Love, written by Sarah Kane and directed by Iva Milosević, as well as the The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, directed by Egon Savin, to star guest in Rome. The Merchant of Venicehas also toured the Budapest Spring Festival, while Phaedra's Love went to Guadalajara in Mexico. Phaedra's Love was also played for the audience in Kikinda, Vojvodina.
The play The Cherry Orchard, a co-production with the City Theatre Budva, has been premiered at the Amphitheater of St. Stefan. This festival has also featured other plays by the YDT: Don Krsto by Vida Ognjenović, Kokoška (The Hen)by N. Kolyada, directed by Jagoš Marković and Marivaux’s play La Dispute, directed by the Romanian director Aleksandru Darie.
The play Rođeni u YU (Born in YU) directed by Dino Mustafić began its tour through the Yugo-zone by being staged on the summer Festival "Purgatorije" in Tivat. It continued the season by touring the Maribor Theatre Festival in Slovenia, followed by a trip to Zagreb, Croatia and Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it toured the Meetings of Theatres in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The play Švabica (The Kraut Girl)by Laza Lazarević, directed by Ana Đorđević, was performed at the Šabac Summer Festival, while the play From the Heroic Life of the Bourgeois has been performed on the Festival of actors „Milivoje Živanović“ in Požarevac.
A Handful of Awards
The Yugoslav Drama Theatre and its general manager Branko Cvejić received the Festival Award of the “Dani Sarajeva“ (Sarajevo Days in Belgrade) for the year 2011 given by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. Branko Cvejić also won this year's Price for Theatrical Creativity by the “City Theatre” in Budva. For their continuous cooperation with the internationally renowned Festival MESS in Sarajevo, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre led by Branko Cvejić has been awarded the Golden Laurel Wreath for their “contribution to the theatric art of the Festival MESS.”
The play Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s Chair) won the Grand Prix “Mira Trailović” on the 45 Bitef 11.
On the 56th festival Sterijino pozorje in Novi Sad the very play Metamorfoze (Metamorphoses) received the acting award Nada Šargin. Numen received the Award for his achievements in set design, Dalija Aćin for stage movement, and Nikola Đuričko got the prestigious price “Zoran Radmilović” for his acting bravura.
Branka Petrić got Sterija’s Award for acting for her role in the play Rođeni u YU (Born in YU), and Radovan Vujović got the newspaper Dnevnik’s Award for the plays Rođeni u YU and Metamorfoze.
The play Metamorfoze has been named the Best Play at the 6th Mediterranean Theatre Festival “Purgatorije” in Tivat, while the actors Jelena Đokić and Nebojša Glogovac bore the awards for the Best Acting Performance at this year’s festival.
For her role in the play Drama o Mirjani i ovima oko nje Mirjana Karanović won the “Marul” Award, while the play itself won the Audience’s Award at the Marulić’s Days in Split. When the play toured Rijeka on the Small Scenes Theatre Festival, both Mirjana Karanović and Branka Petrić were rewarded with the „Veljko Maričić“ Award for Best Acting Achievement. Jelena Petrović was named the best young actress ex-equo, while Ivor Martinić received the „Veljko Maričić“ Award for the drama.
Phaedra's Love became the best performance at the Kikinda Theatre Festival.
Others Touring the YDT
Our three stages have hosted the Zagreb Youth Theatre (performances: Generation 91-95, Buđenje proleća/Spring Awakening and Garaža/Garage), the SNG theatre from Ljubljana (Platonov, Kad sam bio mrtav/When I Was Dead), the National Theatre from Priština (Žica/Wire) as well as the Šabac Theatre, the Academy of Art, the festivals BITEF, BEMUS, TIBA and the monthly concerts by artists from the Faculty of Music, which are held every month at the Studio YDT.
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In the New Year we wish ourselves – a satisfied audience.
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THE ARDALION AWARD TO ANITA MANČIĆ
On the XVI Yugoslav Festival in Užice, that ended the 13th November, the Award "Ardalion" for the best female role was awarded to Anita Mančić for her interpretation of the character of Nadežda in the play Death is Not a Bicycle (That they can steal from you) by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre. The expert jury at the festival in Užice was chaired by director Dejan Mijač, and the jury members were: the architect Radivoje Dinulović, the theater critic Helena Braut from Zagreb, the playwright Maja Stevanović from Macedonia and actor Josif Tatić.
As judged by the audience, the play Death is Not a Bicycle (That they can steal from you) received 4.46 out of a possible 5 points.
IN SEARCH FOR THE MEANING – DRAMA ABOUT MIRJANA AND THOSE AROUND HER
The seventh theatre Festival "The Quest for Meaning", which takes place from 15th to 19th November in Aranđelovac, will be ceremonially opened by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre’s play Drama About Mirjana and Those Around Her. The play is written according to Ivor Martinić’s text and directed by Iva Milošević. The cast is: Mirjana Karanović, Jelena Petrović, Branka Petrić, Marko Baćović, Anđelika Simić, Feđa Stojanović, Cvijeta Mesić and Bojan Lazarov.
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THE AWARDING OF BITEF’S GRAND PRIX TO THE PLAY ELIJAH’S CHAIR
The award ceremony of the Bitef festival’s highest price, the Grand Prix "Mira Trailović", will be held on the stage of the "Bojan Stupica" Theatre on the 3rd November after the performance. The play Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s Chair) won this prestigious award at this year's Festival by decision of Bitef’s international jury in a competition with fifteen other excellent plays from around the world.
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The news about the Grand Prix reached the Elijah’s Chair while the play was touring Zagreb in October. The great interest for the play, as well as for the multi-awarded playwright Igor Štiks, caused a large demand for an extra ticket in Zagreb’s Youth Theater (ZKM). After having followed two hours of a family and human drama, viewed with great care and in total silence, the audience rewarded the actors with loud and long ovations. Many didn’t hide their tears caused by the story of a loner, who had already lived through half a century searching still for an answer to who he is, and looking for the answers in a Sarajevo under siege.
Under the title Incest is the imperative of nationalism, the reputable Zagreb weekly news Nacional published a lengthy article on this play with statements given by the director Boris Liješević and the playwright Igor Štiks.
Critics pointed out the excellent actors, saying that: "The lead belongs to Svetozar Cvetković (...). He is the one for whom you cry in the darkness of the theatre. Here is no waste of acting skills. Everything is low-key, just as in the real life of the man who refuses to notice the obvious signs of rushing into a tragedy. And everything is perfect – well-adjusted acting and executed performance. The young Sarajevo actress Maja Izetbegovic (...), despite a young age, plays her role incredibly mature managing to evoke an impression of complete innocence and unawareness." The article continues with an appraisal to Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljković, "his indestructible artistic stance as an actor is striking, along with an inexhaustible willingness to throw himself into the most difficult acting challenges even today. So is also the lightness with which he overcomes them." (Bojana Radović for Večernji list).
The play is performed by: Vlastimir-Đuza Stojiljković, Renata Ulmanski, Svetozar Cvetković, Maja Izetbegović, Jelena Trkulja and Bane Jevtić. The dramatization of the novel was made by Darko Lukić.
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TOURING OF THE PLAY ROĐENI U YU (BORN IN YU) MADE AN IMPRESSION IN SLOVENIA AND CROATIA
A NEW WAVE IN THE THEATRE
The Yugoslav Drama Theatre ended yesterday its tour to Slovenia and Croatia. The play Born in YU directed by Dino Mustafić opened the Maribor Theatre Festival („Borštnikovo srečanje“) in Slovenia. After that event, this play and the play Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s Chair, based on the novel by Igor Štiks and directed by Boris Liješević), were performed in the Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM). The plays of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre were eagerly awaited both in Maribor and Zagreb. It was not hard to assume that the very arrival of a great Belgrade theatre would awake their interest, especially with a performance that, through personal testimonies by the actors who play in it, talks about rapture and delusions, happiness and hate, truth and lies, about memories, fate and life that we used to share in a country that no longer exist. It particularly deals with issues concerning our identities and what happened to them when the country in which we were born and raised ceased to be. The YDT ensemble arrived in Maribor with the information that all the tickets were sold out long ago, and being aware of – as presumed – the inevitable and entirely unpredictable emotional reaction of the audience on such a delicate, often painful and deeply personal content of this play.
What happened next exceeded, however, all possible expectations. Nearly a thousand spectators in the hall of the Maribor SNG theatre watched the play engaged and in full concentration, intently and almost holding their breath, before finally exploding in applause and shouts that did not silence in more than ten minutes. Feelings that were exchanged between the stage and the auditorium those two hours were very strong and almost tangible. In the face of that, simple questions about the obvious theatrical and artistic success of this play became clearly irrelevant.
The same situation was repeated two nights later in the Zagreb Youth Theatre. It was an even more dense and heathen atmosphere of tension and anticipation, where the audience had not only taken all the regular seats, but also sat on cushions serving as extra seats filling virtually every passage and every stair in the theatre hall. There were sighs and tears, laughter and applause. The strongest and most exciting among them was the one by the end of the play interrupting the recounting of the actress Branka Petrić, which lasted for over two minutes on the open stage. Standing ovations at the very end were even stronger than in Maribor, and a large number of spectators waited in the theater lobby after the show for the actors Predrag Ejdus, Branka Petrić, Mirjana Karanović, Slobodan Beštić, Marko Baćović, Milena Vasić, Anita Mančić, Radovan Vujović, Anđelika Simić, Goran Jevtić to congratulate them once more.
The next evening, in an equally hot and excited atmosphere, but of course with emotions in a different mode, and perhaps even more powerful and heated reactions by the audience, the play Elijah’s Chair was presented with great success. However, the strong emotional impression from the night before was still in the air. This has been one of those rare theatrical experiences that are bigger and more exciting than the Theater itself, which will never be repeated or forgotten
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ŽICA (WIRE) – TOURING OF THE NATIONL THEATRE FROM PRISTINA
"The ensemble and the director Goran Šušljik begun their work on this play forty days ago and finalized it in one of the most dramatic moments in the north of the province", wrote the newspaper Politika on the 3rd August this year. "Set as a strong provocation with a questioning of the personal and the general, this play went on last night into a living communication with the chaos that befell both the play and its audience."
The drama Žica (Wire) by Milena Marković has been built on Bora Stanković’s theme from the novel Impure Blood. Its first performance in the hands of the evicted Serbian Drama of the National Theatre in Pristina is a double testimony – it is an artistic vision of a world of conflicts in which the person has to fight for the right to peaceful life, and also represents the art in direct contact with the harsh and often mindless reality of which it is trying to convey. Therefore, "the creation of these troops," as stated in the report from the August premiere in Kosovska Mitrovica, "shows that everything that is done outside of the ideology and above the exhausted phrases and destroyed myths, does indeed have some chances to be valued and win its personal autonomy in the chaotic dynamics of ethnical and cultural conflicts." (Živojin Rakočević, Politika, 3rd August 2011).
The play is performed by the actors of the National Theatre in Priština: Ivana Kovačević, Igor Damnjanović, Milan Vasić, Anika Grujić, Jasmina Stoiljković, Milena Jakšić, Bora Nenić, Uglješa Vujović, Miodrag Krčmarik, Zdravko Savić, Vasilija Kokotović, Vladimir Jocović and others.
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NIKOLA ĐURIČKO AWARDED FOR HIS ACTING EXCELLENCE IN THE METAMORPHOSIS
One of the actor’s favorite prizes, the Award for Acting Excellence "Zoran Radmilović" was officially presented to Nikola Đuričko for his performance in the play Metamorfoze (Metamorphosis) according to Ovid,directed by Aleksandar Popovski. This prize is traditionally awarded by the Company Novosti News for acting achievements given within the context of the annual festival Sterijino Pozorje.
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LAUREL WRETH (LOVOROV VIJENAC) TO THE YUGOSLAV DRAMA THEATRE
The International Theatre Festival MESS Sarajevo has awarded its highest award, the Golden Laurel Wreath, to the Yugoslav Drama Theatre for its contribution to the theatric art of the MESS Festival. This renowned festival with 51 years long tradition awarded its Golden Laurel Wreath with the explanation of the decision given in a statement by the Festival Director Dino Mustafić: "Even before our two countries established diplomatic relations, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre from Belgrade was the first to come to Sarajevo after the siege".
Since 2001, when it toured Sarajevo with the play Bure baruta (The Powder Keg) written by Dejan Dukovski and directed by Slobodan Unkovski, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre has played at the MESS with: The Merchant of Venice in 2004, Hamlet in 2005 (a co-production with MESS and Budva City Theatre), Brod za lutke (The Dolls Boat) in 2006, Cirkus Istorija (History Circus) in 2007, Fedrina ljubav (Phaedra's Love) in 2008 and Kandid ili Optimizam (Candide or Optimism) in 2009. During the last season there was a successful co-production about the play Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s Chair) based on the novel by Igor Štiks and directed by Boris Liješević, who has just won the Grand Prix "Mira Trailović" at the 45th BITEF.
On the 51st MESS, which runs from 30th September to 9th October, there are 32 plays participating from around the world. For the first time the festival has a jury from the International Association of Theater Critics (IATC).
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BITEF'S GRAND PRIX FOR THE ELIJAHOVA STOLICA (ELIAH’S CHAIR)
The Grand Prix „Mira Trailović“ on the 45th BITEF 11 is given to the play by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre Elijahova stolica, directed by Boris Liješević. The members of the international jury lead by Arthur Sonnen were: Alja Predan, Anna Lengyel, Vladica Milosavljević and Nikola Zavišić.
Among the competitors were achievements of stage magicians such as Heiner Goebbels (winner of the 45th BITEF Special Prize), Jozef Nadj (the winner of the award for best directorship given by the newspaper Politika), Frank Castorf, Jan Fabre, Gisele Vienne, Snježana Abramović Milković, Nataša Rajković and Bobo Jelčić, Ivana Sajko, Oliver Frljić, Selma Spahić, Ivica Buljan, Andrej Šerban, Alain Platel and Frank Van Laecke.
Elijah’s Chair stands in a line with the other cult plays of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, which have earlier been awarded on BITEF: Veseli dani ili Tarelkinova smrt/Happy Days orTarelkin’sdeath (1974), Sumrak/Twilight (1980), Pozorišne iluzije/Theatre Illusions (1991), Lažni car Šćepan Mali/False Emperor Šćepan the Small (1993) and Sanjari/Dreamers(2009).
The play Elijahova stolica was set according to the novel by Igor Štiks with the dramatization of Darko Lukić, and is performed by: Svetozar Cvetković, Vlastimir-Đuza Stojiljković, Maja Izetbegović, Renata Ulmanski, Jelena Trkulja and Bane Jevtić.
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THE CHERRY ORCHARD – PREMIERE 4th OCTOBER!
The most significant living Serbian director, Dejan Mijač has set A. P. Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard on Yugoslav Drama Theatre’s Ljuba Tadić Stage.
Two or three times in my life I did a play by Chekhov, always with great enthusiasm and love, but it seems to me now that I didn’t have enough wisdom to do it. I won’t say that I am wiser now. But, simply, life has shown me some things, and I thought that this way, as an older man, that the only writer whom I can fairly understand is Chekhov. And, with his help, I would like to confess.
Dejan Mijač, Danas, 29th July 2011
Chekhov's testamentary piece The Cherry Orchard was made by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in co-production with the Grad teatar Budva (City Theatre Festival, Budva). The premiere was on St. Stefan Island on the 17th July and was met with a brilliant response, both from the critics and the audiences in Montenegro:
Great actors and a great play.
Pobijeda, 19th July 2011
A vast audience waved the cast goodbye with long lasting ovations.
Politika, 19th July 2011
The play makes us definitely better – it does not carry any special "lesson", but moves us, "bunglers" somehow, and calls and keeps us, enlightening us and extending the limits of humanity.
Pobjeda, 23th July 2011
The directorship of Dejan Mijač is characterized by a very subtle and studious poetic approach, an effective minimalism which represents a fertile ground for the cultivation of symbolic meaning as well as for an exciting acting playfulness.
Politika, 20th July 2011
The play is performed by: Jasna Đuričić, Boris Isaković, Jelena Đokić, Svetozar Cvektović, Nada Šargin, Vlasta Velisavljević, Jelena Petrović, Nikola Vujović, Hana Selimović, Nebojša Milovanović, Bojan Dimitrijević and Branko Cvejić.
The opening night at the Ljuba Tadić Stage will be on Tuesday, 4th October and the reruns will be on the 11th and 24th October.
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ON TOUR IN OCTOBER
Plays of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre are touring several theatre festivals in the country and the region during this October.
After successful participation in the main program of the 45th BITEF festival 2011 when it won the grand Prix Mira Trailović, the play Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s Chair) has been invited to the festival Teatar u jednom aktu (One Act Theatre) in Mladenovac, Serbia, in a certain function, where it will be played on the 5th October, followed by another touring on the 22nd October at the festival Borini pozorišni dani (Bora Stanković’s Theatre Festival) in Vranje, Serbia. The festival in Mladenovac is thematically oriented; the art director and main selector Željko Hubač chose the slogan “Identity 2011” for the festival. The director of Elijah’s Chair Boris Liješević has already won the last year’s one and the main award at this festival.
The selectors of the festival Borini Dani has also built on a new concept in which they have included the performance of the YDT.
Between the two festivals, the Elijah’s Chair will tour the ZKM (Zagreb Youth Theatre) in Zagreb, Croatia on 17th October.
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The traditional festival Borštnikova srečanja in Maribor, Slovenia, will be opened by the play Rođeni u YU (Born in Yugoslavia), directed by Dino Mustafić on the 14th October. This will be the play’s first touring in the region. It participates in the program Mostovi (Bridges). The play will continue the tour with a visit to Zagreb, where Born in YU will be presented on the 16th October.
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Cherry Orchard - a joint production of YDT and the 25th City Theatre Festival –Budva
This year's joint production of YDT and the City Theatre Budva, calledCherry Orchardby A.P. Chekhov anddirected by DejanMijač, will have its premiere on Sunday, 17th July at the Amphitheatre of St. Stefan (on the Montenegrin coast).
The play will be performed by: JasnaĐuričić, Boris Isaković, Jelena Đokić, Svetozar Cvetković, Nada Šargin, Vlasta Velisavljević, Jelena Petrović, Nikola Vujović, Hana Selimović, Nebojša Milovanović, Bojan Dimitrijević i Branko Cvejić.
The premiere of the Cherry Orchard onthe YDT’s MainStage "LjubaTadic" is scheduled for the 4thOctober.
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Plays of the YDT on the jubilee Festival City Theatre - Budva
TheYugoslav Drama Theatre will perform the plays which are made in a co-production with the City Theatre –Budva at this festival during July. The play Hen(Kokoška)by Nikolai Koljada and directed by Jagoš Marković, will be performed on 14th and 15thJuly. The play Discussion by Pierre D’Marivaux, directed by AlexandruDarijeu, will be performed on the 23rdand 24th July, while the play Don Krsto, written and directed by Vida Ognjenović will be playedon the 26thand 27thJuly.
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September in the YDT: Death is not a Bicycle, Metamorphosis, The Drama of Mirjanaand Elijah’sChair!
If you were unable to get the ticket for our plays by the end of June, there is a new opportunity in September!
The new theater season will open on the 14thSeptember by the last June premiere. It is the latest drama by BiljanaSrbljanović, Death is not a Bicycle (to be stolen), directed by Slobodan Unkovski. The play Ovid's Metamorphoses will be performed on the 15thSeptember, while the play Born in the YU directed by Dino Mustafić will be shown on the 16thSeptember.
All the performances are played from 8 o’clock PM at the Main Stage "LjubaTadic."
The play Eliah’s Chair will be performedon the stage of the Theatre "BojanStupica"within theprogram of the BITEF Festival,on 17thSeptember at 8 o’clock PM.
On the next day, 18thSeptember,the play Drama about Mirjana and allthose around heris at the regular repertory of the Theatre "BojanStupica" and will be performed at its regular scheduled time at 20:30 hours.
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POLIGRAPH BY ROBER LEPAGE AND MARIE BRASSARD – PREMIERE OND STUDIO STAGE
The first premijere on Studio Stage in this season is Poligraph by Rober Lepage and Marije Brassard directed by Vladimir Popadic. Cast: Nebojsa Ljubisic, Nikola Rakocevic and Jelena Ilic. The first night is on Februray 16 2011 at 8 30 PM.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Rober Lepage (born 1957) is a playwright, actor, film and theatre director from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and one of the most acclaimed Canadian theatre artists. Rober Lepage’s work is crowned with many awards. Among others, he was made an Oficer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2002, he received the Legion of Honour decoration in France. The French-Canadian Institute awarded him with Samuel de Champlain Prize for his contribution to the French Culture and Stanislawski Award for his contribution to international theatre. In 2007 he received the prestigious European Theatre Award Prix Europe, whose laureates include Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch, Harold Pinter, Heiner Miller, Peter Brook, Jozef Nagy… The play Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) has been created between 1987 and 1990. Its screen version (with Lepage as writer and director) was released in 1997.
Marie Brassard is a Montreal based Canadian actor, writer and theatre director born in Quebec. She has closely collaborated with Rober Lepage for many years. Along with other artists, she has taken part in the creation of several plays and ilms directed by Rober Lepage, including: The Dragon’s Trilogy, Polygraph, Seven Branches of the Ota River and Geometry of Miracles.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
‘There was no freedom in dictatorship. We all agree on that. However, the time has come for us to wonder: is there any freedom in ‘free’ society? In order to tackle this issue, Lepage turns on the Polygraph, and, using the model of an innocent man accused, through a ‘metaphysical detective story’, discovers that the model of the system’s operation in democracy is much more subtle and lamboyant, yet no less vicious or dangerous. The system founded on intimidation by controlled dosage of information (truth) that we are allowed to receive brings man to complete loss of identity and living in constant fear. As such, man is harmless and susceptible to manipulation.’
Vladimir Popadic, director
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Vladimir Popadic, graduated from the department of Theatre Directing of Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Egon Savin. During his studies, he worked as assistant director with directors Dejan Mijac and Roman Viktjuk on Yugoslav Drama Theatre productions. As professional director, he directed over twenty plays locally and internationally. He worked as Artistic Director of Krusevac Theatre for six years, and is currently Associate Director of this theatre. Along with directing, he works as a set designer.
Directions include:
Krusevac Theatre: Iron by Rona Munro; We’ll Have You Stamped Yet by Muza Pavlova; The World by Branislav Nusic; Art by Yasmina Reza; Move Over Mrs Markham and Caught In the Net by Ray Cooney; Stardust by Dusan Kovacevic; Terrorism by Brothers Presnyakov; Slander by Jelena Popadic;
Other Theatres:
A Trap for a Helpless Man by Robert Thomas (Kraljevo Theatre); Do You Speak Australian by Ugljesa Sajtinac (Tosa Jovanovic Theatre, Zrenjanin); The Lover by Harold Pinter (Belgrade Drama Theatre); The Propsmaster by Ugljesa Sajtinac (Hull Theatre, UK)…
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FROM THE HEROIC LIFE OF BURGEOISIE BY CARL STERNHEIM, DIRECTED BY IVA MILOSEVIĆ– THE FIRST REHEARSAL
Director Iva Milosević held the first rehearsal of YDT’s new play by Carl Sternheim, The Heroic Life of Burgeoisie yesterday, on November 3rd.
The trilogy Heroic Life of Burgeoisie, written by the early expressionistic German writer and author Carl Sternheim, exposes the philistine, provincial spirit of citizenship, along with the hypocritical morality and greed – in an era that greatly resembles our own contemporary era.
Iva Milosević
The cast is: Dragan Mićanović, Jelena Dokić, Anđelika Simić, Nikola Vujović, Bojan Lazarov, Mark Baćović, Labor Đuričin, Predrag Ejdus, Nada Šargin and Marinko Madžgalj. The production designer is Gorčin Stojanović, the costume designer is Leo Kulaš, and the composer is Vladimir Pejković.
Carl Sternheim (1878 - 1942) was a German playwright and storyteller. The cycle of theatrical pieces on the Heroic Life of Burgeoisie is his most successful. The sarcasm, evident already in the title, affects all levels of the German society right ahead of the First World War. The piece exposes the omnipresent false morality, careerism and idolatry of "reputation".
The works of Carl Sternheim were translated from German for the purposes of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre by the playwright and translator Boško Milin. This is the very first performance of any Sternheim’s works in Serbian.
The premiere of the play will be on the Main Stage "Ljuba Tadić”. This is Iva Milošević’s first directorship on the YDT’s Main Stage.
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THE STUDIO SCENE: THE POLYGRAPH BY LEPAGE - BRASAR, DIRECTED BY VLADIMIR POPADIĆ
The director and Artistic Director of the Kruševac Theatre, Vladimir Popadić, will direct the drama Polygraph by Rober Lepage and Marie Brasar, translated by David Albahari on the Studio Scene of YDT. This project grew out of the YDT’s leadership’s idea to open the Studio Scene not only for young directors just starting their career (Marko Manojlović, Ana Djordjević, Boris Liješević, Ivan Vuković and others directed their first performances on the YDT’s Studio Stage), as intended originally, but also to directors from smaller Serbian towns in the inland, thus introducing their work to the Belgrade Theatre currents.
Within the same project, the Studio Stage will host the directorship of Nemanja Ranković, who is the Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Užice, during spring 2011.
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