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Jugoslovensko dramsko pozoriste 20.09. 22:00 Trajanje: 1 h 15'

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Translated from French to Serbian by Andjelka Nikolic / Set Designer: Vesna Strbac / Costume Designer: Dejan Dosljak / Movement: Ljiljana Tasic / Music: Djordje Brankovic / Speech: Ljiljana Mrkic-Popovic / Production Manager: Vladimir Perisic Cast; Djurdjija Cvetic (Lady) / Jelena Ilic (Female Vocal) / Djordje Brankovic (Male Vocal) / Teodora Zivanovic (Female Model) / Rade (!osic (Male Model) Stage manager: Dusan Milosavljevic / Prompter: Dragana Sekula Premiere: March 14,2008 on Studio YDT Stage Duration: 1h 15' The more the Lady demonstrates and shows that life is liable to organisation and that such an approach can guarantee a sense of fulfilment and satisfaction, the more the question of how much she herself believes in that link imposes itself. She actually finds viewers necessary in order for her to be able to, by convincing them, convince herself she is right. Reality, what really goes on around her, denies it and even more so what goes on within herself, surfacing sporadically. Moments of her utmost sincerity are the breaks in her sentences, the slips she makes, the moments when she seemingly loses touch with the play she's In. Moments of her being lost in emotions she doesn't know how to handle. These are not necessarily negative emotions, and this is the saddest thing about this play. As if insisting on the formal aspect of life - events and rituals related to moments of an individual's initiation into society - is what both happiness and misery are programmed on, leading to both feelings becoming fake. Thence the strange feeling that one observes one's life from aside, instead of living it. The biggest problem the rules bring along might be an inevitable loss of spontaneity. From my point of view, the play is about a manic attempt to prove the meaning of existence and the existence itself. The more it is proved, the more elusive this meaning gets. And turns into the meaningless. Into a void. Andjelka Nikolic JEAN-LUC LAGARCE (1957-1995) is the most frequently produced contemporary playwright in France. Simplicity of his vocabulary, his depth of thought and originality of expression make him a classic of contemporary literature. His plays were translated into many languages and performed in different countries. Fie wrote twenty five plays, such as The Last Regret Before Oblivion, The Pretendents, 1 Sat At Flome and Waited for the Rain to Fall, The Very End of the World, Us, the Heroes, Faraway Land... He also wrote prose and essays on theatre that attract both critics'and directors' much attention. Lagarce's theatre focuses on language, whilst plots of his plays are relatively reduced. His voice abounds with inserted sentences; the characters continually try to clarify what they have just said. Even though he insists on maximum precision, the text, paradoxically, grows ever more vague. A significant theme of his plays is questioning the possibility of conveying anything by means of language.

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