Jubilee performances of theater performances are primarily a sign of their quality, but they also speak of the audience's taste and the success of the theater's repertoire policy. And, which is just as important – they mean a recommendation to watch.
Until the end of March and from the beginning of the year, there will be ten jubilee performances, mostly on the Belgrade stage. Of these, Voja Brajović and Isidora Simijonović play in two jubilee performances, and "Zvezdara Teatar" will have three of them.
Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
The latest is on March 6 at the Terazije Theater - a musical Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which will be played for the 50th time. The director is Nebojša Bradić., and Pepe, the famous character from Almodovar's film of the same name, is alternately played by Jelena Stupljanin and Ivana Popović.
Photo: PromoFrom the musical "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"
"The focus is on women whose relationships with men lead to two stormy days of love, confusion and passion," wrote Nebojša Bradić in the program of this musical, which critics say is a better production than the Broadway version. Starring Hadži Nenad Maričić, Ivana Knežević/Nataša Marković, Arsenije Tubić/Slaven Došlo and others.
Zvezdara Theater
It was performed for the 350th time in "Zvezdara Theater" in January Book about Milutin, a monodrama by Nenad Jezdić, currently the most performed play in the country. "The monodrama that it is directed by Egon Savin so far, more than 55.000 people have seen it on the home stage of the Zvezdara Theater, as well as more than 50.000 on guest appearances in the country and abroad," the theater announced on the occasion of the jubilee.
Photo: PromoFrom the "Book of Milutin"
This month, "Zvezdara Theater" has two more jubilees: the 300th performance duo dramas Voz starring Voja Brajović and Sergej Trifunović is on March 10, while on March 16 the play Osama – a town in New York play for the 150th time.
Voz is a philosophical drama about two heroes who meet at the train station, about Bel, who is a professor, and Crna, a former prisoner. Is it because of Voja Brajović and Sergej Trifunović, who play them, or because of the life questions posed by this drama by Cormac McCarthy, only - Voz It has existed since 2015.
Photo: PromoFrom the play "Osama"
"Osama is the story of a generation close to me, which from a carefree upbringing in Yugoslavia entered a bloody war. I tried to find out if there is a possibility for her to be cleansed from her wounds or if only the next generations can come to that purification. Our children," wrote director Darko Bajić about this play, a dramatization of Vladimir Kecmanović's novel of the same name. Starring Radovan Vujović, Jovan Jovanović, Iva Ilinčić, Branko Janković, Isidora Simijanović and Amar Ćorović.
Neoplanta
The 100th performance of the play Neoplanta it was celebrated last month at the Novi Sad Theater. The novel by Laszlo Wegel was dramatized by Kata Djarmati, and the play was directed by Andraš Urban. It has been in the repertoire for 12 years. "One of the virtues Neoplants is to deal with personal stories on an intimate level. Wegel talks about a man in a historical, ideological, political storm that was always swirling above his head," Urban points out. The play stars Gabrijela Crnković, Emina Salai Elor, Agota Ferenc, Silvia Križan, Judit László, Daniel Husta, Ištvan Kereši, Arpad Mesaroš, Atila Nemet, Gabor Pongo and Zoltan Šimer.
From the play "Neoplanta"
Another 50 performances
Apart from the aforementioned A woman in the Terazije Theater, the fiftieth performance had three more performances: A grieving family at the National Theatre, Father in Atelier 212, and A private celebration at the Bitef Theater.
Photo: PromoFrom the play "The Grieving Family"
Nušićeva To the grieving family directed by Jagoš Marković, as a comedy that is a tragedy, where the facts are a tragedy, while the angle of Nušić's observation of those dark facts indicates that it is a comedy. The play won nine awards at festivals and outside them, two overall and seven individual. The play features Saša Torlaković, Sandra Bugarski, Danica Maksimović, Nebojša Dugalić, Vanja Ejdus, Aleksandar Srećković, Nela Mihailović, Pavle Pekić, Andrijana Đorđević and Dušan Matejić.
Photo; PromoFrom the play "Father"
Father is a tragicomic family drama Florian Zeller directed by Paolo Magglio, in which the incredible Voja Brajović and Hana Selimović they play father and daughter so that we ourselves look into the eyes of those around us. Apart from them, in eye also starring Dragana Varagić, Isidora Simijonović, Ivan Mihailović/Strahinja Blažić and Marko Grabež. And then there is the music of KOIKOI.
Photo: PromoFrom "Private Celebration"
Private celebration was directed by Vladimir Aleksić based on the text by Maja Todorović. It takes place during a mysterious evening in an elegant restaurant, where six people gather at the invitation of mutual friends - a married couple of lawyers. This is a story about divorce, but above all about the absurd chaos that we are able to make of our relationships. Starring Vladimir Aleksić, Milena Vasić, Uroš Jakovljević, Tijana Marković, Jelisaveta Orašanin and Nikola Rakočević.
