STERIJINO POZORJE FESTIVAL 2010 - Novi Sad, Serbia - National Theatre/Narodno kazaliste/Népszínház, Subotica, Serbia - BANOVIC STRAHINJA text by Borislav Mihajlovic – Mihiz directed by Andras Urban
Urban’s reading of Mihiz’s psychological/existential/pseudohistorical drama is stripped and direct, emotionally penetrating, powerful, stylistically homegeneous and coherent, thematically topical and made topical even further, having in mind our eternal problem of passionate nationalism, xenophobia, pseudo-patriotism, political manipulation, national history, myths, religion. Clearly following currents of the author’s ideas, the director throws the characters of the play into a hole, space recalling a fighting ring, whereby the fact of destruction is effectively, symbolically determined, but also the importance of combat, wars, aggression in the lives of actors. The viewers are placed very close to the performers, and are therefore drawn into the action.
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