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Atelje 212 21.09. 17:00 Trajanje; 2h 30'

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Assistant director: Boris Lijesevic / Second assistant director: Spela Trost / Dramaturge: Milan Madarev / Stage movement: Denes Debrei / Lighting designer: Torn! Janezic / Music and Sound designer: Tomaz Grom / Video designer: Gregor Bozic / Assistant designer: Dusko Askovic / Proof-reader: Ljiljana Mrkic-Popovic / Volunteers: Dina Radoman, Bojana Jankovic / Organization: Nevena Vuckovic Cast: Miroslav Zuzic (Majcen) / Nenad ôric (Milun) / Boris Isakovic (Drobac) / Branislav Zeremski (Blagoje Babic) / Dara Dzokic (Gina) / Isidora Minie (Simka) / Renata Uimanski (Dara) / ... (Tomanija) /Vlastimir Stojiijkovic (Vasilije Sopalovic) / Jasna Duricic (Jelisaveta Protic) / Nada Sargin (Sofija Subotic) / Svetozar Cvetkovic (Filip Trnavac) Stage manager: Dusko Askovic / Prompt: Snezana Budimlic Premiere: 27th October, 2007, Atelje 212 Main stage Duration: 2h 30', with interval DRAMATURGE'S NOTES As in all good plays, the beginning of The Travelling Troupe Sopalovic is more than simple. On a summer's day, a theatre troupe arrives in the town of Uzice in order to perform Shiller's play The Robbers. in the midst of the Rakija market they perform one scene from the play in order to attract people's interest for their show. Unfortunately, the moment they picked could not be worse: one of the first operations of the occupying forces is underway, hangings and shootings have begun, the town is full of refugees from Bosnia running away from the Ustashas and the theatre and acting, in the minds of common citizens of the provincial town, are still a somewhat embarrassing activity even in times of peace, let alone during wartime. Under such circumstances, the melodramatic scene from The Robbers is sorely out of place, and the offended citizens hurl insults at the actors for daring to come to their town to perform their play, so inconsiderate and blind to their plight. (...) Steadily and seamlessly, TheTravellingTroupe Sopalovic, moves from abject realism to a poetic vision and the moment where the playwright becomes a poet is almost imperceptible. With topographic precision, found only in novels, the action of the play is restricted to the town of Uzice and those who know it can almost feel as if they are being taken for a walk around the town by the characters in the play. Objects from everyday life, Gina's tub, Blagoje's bottle, Drobac's whip, Sofija's hair, also become symbols. At last, the trail of blood left behind Drobac and afterwards, after the cutting of Sofija's hair, Blagoje, the first to cast a stone against a sinner, seems utterly convincing, as a poetic picture which, at the same time, is a realistic and powerfully dramatic turn where the events begin to unveil their most profound meaning.

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