Pleskavica festival in coproduction with Kino Šiška

25/09/2013 in 26/09/2013, 18.00
Kino Šiška/Katedrala
Entrance (13 eur advance sales, 16 eur walk up)
The performance last 6,5 h and have more breaks

galeb

photo: Archive National Theatre Novi Sad

The Seagull (1895), written and described by Anton P. Chekhov as a comedy, was staged for the first time in 1896 and considered a failure. Two years later, Stanislavsky directed it at Moscow Art Theatre and the production became legendary. Slovenian director Tomi Janežič is staging it for the second time; this time the work on the performance originated from his work with postgraduate acting students at the Academy of Art in Novi Sad (Serbia) and continued with an expanded team of experienced actors at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. The process that spanned 16 months was based on intensive acting work and a practical analysis of the text – through action, in space. The performance thematises creativity itself, attempting to explore the topics of the play not only at the level of contents but also by applying a diversity of appropriate performative strategies and theatrical means. It treats the themes that are crystallised through the process of each act with specific theatrical procedures, strategies and focus. The Seagull is an extensive art project composed of four performances – regarding their content, themes and performative strategies, the acts could be considered four separate pieces – that integrates and traverses various art fields.

“€œA certified adventurist among directors, Tomi Janežič, decided to attempt a full staging of The Seagull, along with all of its known dichotomies (comedy-tragedy, old age-youth, tradition-new) and ambiguities (life-art/ reality-illusion, substance-form). He sought an answer to “€œHow?“€ with Chekov and accounts related to him and the students of Drama and their teachers. This is to say – at the very source. And an answer to “€œWhy?“€ was provided by the performance itself.“€ (from the critique of Igor Burič‡)

http://www.snp.org.rs/latinica/predstave/galeb—

Direction, stage design and lighting design: Tomi Janežič

Dramaturgy: Katja Legin

Costume design: Marina Sremac

Composer: Isidora Žebeljan

Sound design: Tomaž Grom

Stage co-designer: Željko Piškorič‡

Assistant directors: Dušan Mamula in Dimitrije Dinič‡

Assistant costume designer: Snežana Horvat

Direction and film editing: Tomi Janežič

Camera: Srdjan čurič‡

Sound: Uroš Stojnič‡

Producer: Elizabeta Fabri

Actors' cast:

Jasna čuričič‡: Irina Nikolajevna Arkadina

Filip čurič‡: Konstantin Gavrilovič Trepljev – Kostja

Dušan Jakišič‡: Petar Nikolajevič Sorin

Milica Janevski: Nina Mihajlovna Zarečna

Deneš Debrei: Ilija Afanasijevič Šamrajev

Draginja Voganjac: Polina Andrejevna

Ivana Vukovič‡: Marija Ilinična Maša

Boris Liješevič‡: Boris Aleksejevič Trigorin

Boris Isakovič‡: Jevgenije Aleksejevič Dorn

Dimitrije Dinič‡: marking Semjona Semjonoviča Medvedenka

Jovan Živanovič‡: Jakov, worker, dog, curtain

Milica Trifunovič‡: prompter, chambermaid

Tijana Markovič‡: prompter electronic cigarette demo, chambermaid

Dušan Mamula: numerous parts

Musicians:

Aleksandar Ružičič‡ – flute and piccolo

Borislav čŒičovački – oboe

Nenad Markovič‡ – trumpet

Isidora Žebeljan – piano

Boban Stošič‡, Goran Kostič‡ – double bass

Ivan Marjanovič‡ – percussion

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