Sreten Asanović, Nomina, Plima, Ulcinj, 2011
By: Ivana Ančić
English version will be available soon.
The Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Catastrophe , ZPC, Zagreb
By: Ivana Anić
Five performers, five stories. Five performers, one story? The Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Catastrophe is a piece by dance artists Selma Banich, Deana Gobac and Roberta Milevoj, dance artist and critic Iva Nerina Sibila and theatrologist and critic Nataša Govedić in which they deal with their own stories, as well as other peoples’ and universal ones. The play has an experimental character but it is long and exceptionally fragmented and even leaves the first impression of being improvised. The text, the gesture, the dance, the symbolic action and the metatheatrical actions are constantly fighting for their position in the game, so that, at the end of the play, the viewer feels as if bread-crumbs, the assurance of a safe journey home have been eaten by the birds. But, the disadvantages of the conceptual duel are, at the same time, its virtues, indicating a harmony between form and content.
The Shop-Window, directed by Nataša Rajković & Bobo Jelčić, produced by: Zagrebačko kazalište mladih (ZeKaeM – Zagreb Youth Theatre)
By: Sandro Siljan
The Shop-window was produced by Zagrebačko kazalište mladih (ZeKaeM – Zagreb Youth Theatre) in 2010 and the text and the direction is signed by a well known theatrical tandem Nataša Rajković and Bobo Jelčić. What is so special about this play is that it does not take place in the theatre but in a window of a shop in Tratinska Street in Zagreb. The play also excels in participation of many non-professional actors. The performance that I saw and the one that I will write about, was preformed in October 2011, as a part of a Show Case of the Croatian Theatre, which was organised for foreign selectors by The Perforacije Festival . I have to state this, because later on I found out that there are two versions of this play. There is the domestic one, whose topics are the abandoned shops in Tratinska Street and the international one, which tells of international conflicts in our region during the last decades. So, I will write about the second one.
Olja Savičević Ivančević: Goodbye Cowboy (Algoritam, Zagreb, 2010)
By: Nikola Đoković
The tile of the novel ‘’Goodbye Cowboy’’ hints at the sentimental, nostalgic and even bitter-sweet taste. The ecstatic-ethical dominance in the novel corresponds with a longing for the old idealised, ‘’not-for-sale’’ (western) type of hero in today’s civilisation. The absence of this figure in the ‘’West’’ that presented Hollywood, the mythical workshop (that spread the myth of a hero of the time past to the rest of the world through its movie icons), as well as in Croatia, that presents the East in ‘’transition’’ in comparison to the ‘’developed’’ West.
Igor Eškinja, Inhabitants of generic places | NO Gallery of Contemporary Art Museum, Zagreb| November 4 – November 20, 2011
By: Ana Bogdanović
One of the powers of art lies in its ability to provoke experience from the audience by employing conspicuous visual means which allows them, at least for a moment, to share the distorted point of view imposed by the artist. In order for the play with the viewer to be successful, artists used trompe-l’œil (French for “illusion”), which means accurate presentation of space in the painting with the aim to create an illusion of three-dimensional space which is a seamless continuation of the tangible space surrounding the viewer. Removing the boundary between real and imaginary space, perception was fooled and a human need satisfied, to make things appear as real in art as they are in life. If we apply this to our day and age, where the mass phenomenon of virtual reality, popularity of four, five, and six-dimensional movie experiences in cinemas, skillfully and very manipulatively, affects the confusion between the real and construed space of the viewer, mimetic representation of familiar situations in art does not manage to satisfy the complex perceptional expectation of the viewer. Testing the limits of perception, not just art, but what we call reality, is the main challenge posed by the Croatian author Igor Eškinja with Inhabitants of generic places.
Miro Gavran: Kafka’s Friend (Mozaik knjiga, Zagreb, 2011)
By: Ivan Telebar
Max Brod sits in a small, stuffy office in Tel Aviv and goes through a new manuscript that came to his home address a few days ago. The sender is unknown, the only thing he can see is the name of the author under which is the title of the manuscript – Miro Gavran Kafka’s Friend. He has heard of this author, the literature circles talk of him as of the most translated Croatian writer and the only alive European dramatist to whom a whole festival has been dedicated to. He cared little for such epithets, he was more concerned about the text in front of him. He has read it several times and now he was just turning the pages and sometimes stopping on a chapter, searching for something more then black ink on a white paper.
Sreten Asanović, Nomina, Plima, Ulcinj, 2011
By: Ivana Ančić
English version will be available soon.
OSMI I SEDMI PUTNIK, Aleksandar Bjelogrlić, Citadela, Agora, Zrenjanin, 201
By: Dalibor Plečić
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Stjepan Gulin, Paz’te sad, paz’te sad (Meandarmedia, Zagreb, 2011.)
Authors: Ivana Ančić
Igor Marojević, Kroz glavu (Dosije, Beograd, 2012.)
Author: Dalibor Plečić
Damir Miloš, Pisa. Povratak (Meandarmedia, Zagreb, 2011.)
Author: Morena Livaković
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By: Milena Milojević
Piše: Nino Kovačić
Gostujuća izvedba šibenskog HNK, Pir malograđana, prema tekstu mladog Bertolda Brechta (napisan 1919.) izvedena je po sljedećoj formuli: na Danima satire u satiričkom kazalištu Kerempuh gledamo satiričan komad. Prema reakcijama publike, bila je uspješna, ali teško se oteti dojmu da je smijeh bio formulaično zagarantiran, jer bi takav instruirani moment humora trebao zauzdati spontani smijeh. Je li se možda radilo o “malograđanskom” humoru?
Glumice i to, KNAP, Zagreb, premijera 12.5.2012.
Piše: Nino Kovačić
Glumice i to, nova predstava u zagrebačkom KNAP-u, neobičan su kazališni ‘slučaj’. Naime, predstavu su, dramaturški i režijski osmislile te, naravno, glumački ostvarile četiri mlade glumice. U trenutačnoj opće-društvenoj, pa tako i kazališnoj situaciji, kojom prijete olovni pojmovi poput recesije, prekarijata i outsourcinga (nedavno su najavljena i otpuštanja “hladnopogonskih” glumaca), one su, kako piše u najavi “nezaposlene i pune entuzijazma, odlučile su preuzeti stvar u svoje ruke i napraviti hit!”. Očito sklone postdramskom pristupu izvedbi koji se, između ostalog, bazira na ekipnoj work-in-progress metodi, izvedbenoj anti-iluziji i autoreferencijalnosti, glumice/autorice su se “trgnule” i napravile parodiju o tome kako rade predstavu, po ironičnom ključu: kad ne ide pravljenje predstave treba napraviti predstavu o tome kako se ne može raditi predstava.
“Nije život biciklo”, Biljana Srbljanović, režija: Anselm Veber, Produkcija: Šaušpilhaus Bohum, Nemačka; Sterijino pozorje 2012, selekcija Nacionalne drame i pozorišta
By: Tamara Baračkov
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„Grebanje, ili kako se ubila moja baka“, Tanja Šljivar, režija: Selma Spahić, Bosansko narodno pozorište Zenica/Bitef teatar-Hartefakt (Beograd), premijera: 7. septembar 2012. (Zenica), 11. oktobar 2012. (Beograd)
By: Tamara Baračkov
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„Sluga dvaju gospodara“, Karlo Goldoni, režija: Boris Liješević, Grad teatar Budva/Srpsko narodno pozorište Novi Sad/Narodno pozorište „Toša Jovanović“ Zrenjanin, premijera: 27. jul 2012.
By: Tamara Baračkov
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