STERIJINO POZORJE FESTIVAL 2009 - Novi Sad, Serbia
Atelje 212 Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia
FOREST IS GLOWING / SUMA BLISTA
text by Milena Markovic
directed by Tomi Janezic
Tomi Janezic obviously has a very strong artistic connection with the recent opus of Milena Markovic by which his directorial interest becomes sublime if not in the best, then at least in the most intriguing edition of controversial proportions. Seemingly with a light ease and to everyone's joy, but in fact in a labouring, child-delivering manner, ‘The Forrest is Glowing’ offers and does not haste but delivers it all: a little sound, a little image, but that “little” that can be seen can sometimes be more than enough not only to be credible but also to make one wish to be different. Interpretation, play, or in this unique case the mere Presence of actors on the spastically empty and dark stage – Jasna Djuricic, Boris Isakovic, Vlastimir-Djuza Stojiljkovic and others – and with great power enlivens people worn out by weakness, which Milena Markovic almost always poeticizes endowing them with the power of speech so they can spit out from their lungs much and far, even more importantly, the truthful and the truth-creating. All this sheer grotesque treatment of the text, the thing itself, and the actors and the public, of course, implies the opening of a field of different and heterogeneous structures and realities, and this play opens so much that it could easily be praised and chided, as one wishes, so it is like a pub-based “Solaris.” Yes, pub as destiny on some borderline, in cosmos probably, or in the black hole, intimately, “transitionally” and according to the other questions correctly. This is sung by a glowing forest adorned with simplicity, this probably touches All and only this action is ultimately tolerated.
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