ABOUT THE WRITERS
Aleksandar Obrenović was born in Belgrade in 1928. He studied pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy. He did some acting and painting as well. Worked as a journalist at Radio Belgrade, a dramaturg at Drama Department of TV Belgrade since its foundation, was the first artistic director of Sterijino pozorje, a free-lance artist, a radio-play editor at the Drama Programme of Radio Belgrade. Wrote scripts for documentaries and directed them. He also wrote scripts for feature films, TV plays, theatre and radio plays and stories.
More than 60 of his radio plays were produced, most of which he directed himself, locally and abroad. His works were published or produced in more than 20 countries and translated into 22 languages. ‘Prosveta’ published a collection of his plays, Return of Don Juan, whereas Theatre Museum of Serbia published the collection of plays Clusters of Magic Stars. His stories were published in various newspapers and journals.
Plays: Himmelkommando, 1956; Variations (Rondeau, Evening Play, The Bird, Nocturno), 1958; The Face, 1967; Ocean Liner Captain, 1966; Return of Don Juan and Other Plays, 1968; O, sole mio…, 1984.
Radio plays: Girl on the Roof, 1969; Sansara, 1969; Venture of the Century, 1981; Sweet Smell of Rebirth, 1983; and other. Around twenty of his radio-adaptations of local and international writers were produced at all major Yugoslav radio stations, as well as a dozen of TV plays and TV adaptations for Belgrade TV.
His plays were published and produced in USSR, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, DDR, Switzerland, Monaco, France, Italy, Israel, USA, Belgium, Malta…
Đorđe Lebović was born in Sombor in 1928. He was a prisoner at Nazi camps Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen (1944-1945). He started his studies at the Technical Faculty (1947-1948), and then graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (1948-1951). During his studies, he worked as a menial worker, teacher, translator and humorist (collaborator of Radio Belgrade and Jež magazine). In 1953, he was a journalist with Radio Novi Sad and a curator of Theatre Museum in Belgrade (1954-1955), where he left an expansive manuscript, hand written, of the First Inventory Book of Theatre Museum in Belgrade. Since 1955, he managed the Summer Stage in Topčider, and since 1960, he was a manager of Exhibition Pavilion in Belgrade. He was Head of Drama at Belgrade National Theatre from 1979 to 1981, when he retired. He collaborated with magazines and journals: Pozorišni život (1956–1965), Delo (1956, 1959), Borba (1957), NIN (1957), Student (1959), Za pobedu (1959), Jevrejski almanah (1959/1960), Oslobođenje (1960), Vojnik (1964), Odjek (1969), Letopis MS (1972), Scena (1975)...
Plays and radio plays: Himmelkommando (1957, co-written with A. Obrenović), Shadows and Light (1959), Funerals Usually Start in the Afternoon (1969), Charlatan (with J. Lešić, 1965), Three Grotesques, Hallellujah, Victoria (1968), The Lone Crowd (1970), Fallen Angels (1971), Puppet from Bed 21 (1971), The Nether Land (based on the novel by J. Ignjatović, Milan Narandzic, 1981), Ravangrad 1900 (based on the story by V. Petrović, 1982), Sentandreia Rhapsody (based on the works of J. Ignjatović, 1983), The Soldier and the Puppet (1996), Ten Percent to Madness (1998, manuscript); Cactuses and Roses (published in 1999 in the Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Plays, volume 04). From among his legacy, the unfinished novel Semper Idem was published, as well as unfinished book of writings on holocaust, Search Among the Ashes.
Lebovic is the founder of Association of Playwrights of Serbia, 1976, and its first chairman. He is a multiple laureate of Sterija Best Play Award and many international awards.
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Aleksandar Obrenović and Đorđe Lebović were the first to win Sterija Drama Award for their play Himmelkommando, awarded for the first time at Second Yugoslav Theatre Festival in 1957.
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ABOUT DIRECTOR
Marko Manojlović was born in 1982 in Belgrade. He is a final year student of Theatre Directing, in the class of prof. Slavenko Saletović at the Facutly of Drama Arts.
In 2001, he made his debut as assistant director to Darijan Mihajlović on the production of Danton's Death, and then worked as assistant director with many acclaimed theatre directors, including Rahim Burhan (White White World), Jagoš Marković (Madame Minister), Jovan Ćirilov (The Ungathered), Gorčin Stojanović (Captain John Peoplefox), Loran Vanson (Holes)... He made his directorial debut with the play Death by Woody Allen, at Studio JDP stage in 2005. This was followed by Trap at NT Sombor, Three Piglets at Boško Buha Theatre, Pumpkin Gone Graceful at NT Kikinda and Belgrade Drama Theatre, No Masks at Atelje 212, In Eden, in the East (BELEF, 2007), Elling at Belgrade Drama Theatre, Liars at City Theatre in Podgorica and Flutter of my Lungs at NT Sombor. In 2007, he directed at JDP again, the play by Jose Triana Night of Murderers, at Bojan Stupica Stage.
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