STERIJINO POZORJE FESTIVAL 2009 - Novi Sad, Serbia
- Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, Serbia
THE DOLL SHIP / BROD ZA LUTKE
text by Milena Markovic
directed by Ana Tomovic
Interwoven with fantastic authorial imagination of Milena Markovic, on the SNT stage seemingly overcrowded with objects, music and symbols, Ship for Dolls connects a circle of raw life as we know it today with a circle of eternal fairy tales along with quick style and genre reference exchanges of a game from which alternately, and in unison, breezes a spirit of the first naturalistic romance, grotesque, caricature, the final tragic emptiness of being and time... Opposed, but also contributing to this, static strongholds of this steaming, prothean play in which narration and poetry merge, youthful ceremonial desire and its broken arche-remnants become symbolic multi-meaningful masks along a full interaction of actors/characters, as well as a powerful musical background by Darko Rundek, who to this entire bitter confusion bestows a huge figure of live orchestra set on the stage, like some firm but not quite palpable stronghold.
Obviously complex, even a little pretentious in its conception, but equally dramatic, convincing, thanks to the balanced, precise direction of a young director as much as the a brilliant play by Jasna Djuricic, followed in an almost equaly elevated/multiplied interpretive key by Draginja Voganjac, Milica Grujicic, Radoje Cupic, Nenad Pecinar, Radovan Vujovic.
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