Youth stage 2019
SCEZAM is a child of Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children. This confuses a little bit since SCEZAM is a teenager, and the Festival a child. We keep forgetting that they had to be children first. This is why we first needed a theatre for children. Then we got scared about what happened to our children who still haven’t entered the adult world and realized that we must create something for them. Thus, we have SCEZAM now, a place of encounters, exchange, socializing and studying.
SCEZAM will be a host to fifty young persons from the region who will perform their shows, attend workshops, watch professional plays intended for youth, meet Kotor and socialize.
Youth in the theatre? Does that really exist? Yes, it does and it shouldn’t stop. Even the last actor/viewer is a hope for survival of theatre. They are somewhat shy and insecure, but that’s why we’re here. SCEZAM lights a fire each year to illuminate the path for the youth theatre. And we hope to transform into the sun.
Marija Backović
SCEZAM will be a host to fifty young persons from the region who will perform their shows, attend workshops, watch professional plays intended for youth, meet Kotor and socialize.
Youth in the theatre? Does that really exist? Yes, it does and it shouldn’t stop. Even the last actor/viewer is a hope for survival of theatre. They are somewhat shy and insecure, but that’s why we’re here. SCEZAM lights a fire each year to illuminate the path for the youth theatre. And we hope to transform into the sun.
Marija Backović
PROGRAM
FREE ENTRANCE
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS
NOVA Academy of Arts; KPGT (Belgrade, Serbia) Directed by: Jelena Risteljić Written by: Fransis Veber Set design and organisation: Milana Matejić Cast: Marko Topolovački, Uroš Novović, Dejana Džinić, Marko Panajotović, Gabriela Adžić, Magdi El-Asrag, Luka Pavlović, Eldar Zubčević / Mihailo Perišić Duration: 90 min Dinner for Schmucks is a play based on a drama of a French writer and director, Francis Veber. This is a well-tailored comedy with comical and intelligent plots and intertwining elements of vaudeville, character comedy and intrigue. The play starts with the idea of a dinner for a group of intellectual, snobbish and sarcastic friends, whose guests are, without being aware of it, candidates for the biggest idiot award. These guests were never told why they had been actually invited to the dinner, but instead they keep entertaining their hosts, without knowing about it. When the anticipated dinner is delayed, with a set of comical circumstances and hilarious situations, the plot entangles to the most unimaginable culmination, not so favourable for Pierre. At the end of such delayed dinner, the author serves a peculiar life lesson which deals with French sophistication and subtlety: who, in fact, is the idiot? The pleiade of characters who appear at the door of the apartment, invited in hilarious and confusing ways, causes plenty of funny plots which result in a complete fall of the protagonist and moralistically – ironical ending. Francis Veber’s drama showed once again how terms ‘’idiot’’, ‘’intelligent’’, ‘’stupid’’ are actually elastic and volatile and dependant of life situations which constantly test us. Who once committed idiocracy and tasted its delights, never forgets the taste. The first postulate of idiots is their conviction that they are intelligent. SFRY Po(J)etry
Drama studio Prazan prostor (Kotor, Montenegro) Directed by: Slaviša Grubiša Cast: Ivan Franović, Marko Radović, Boban Crnogorac, Milivoje Miki Radulovic, Aleksa Balević, Klara Milošević, Stefanija Brčić, Antonio Grgurović, Stefan Lazarević, Dušan Lučić, Dejana Uskoković, Ivan Kašćelan, Jovana Magud, Katarina Novović, Željko Djujić Duration: 85 minutes A play ''SFRY Po(J)etry'' tackles the problem of turbo folk in the region of former Yugoslavia. Hit songs heavily present in growing up of today's youth. Did this type of music and to which extent did it affect the state of mind of people from this region? Would it be any different if such music has never become our everyday life? This play doesn’t offer answers to these questions but we will try to approach these well-known lyrics from a different perspective, so you can reach your own conclusions. ''No one can harm us, we are stronger than destiny''. Are we? 13
Drama studio of Istrian National Theatre / Pula City Theatre (Croatia) Author and choreographer: Andrea Gotovina in cooperation with performers Costume design: Desanka Janković Light design: Dario Družeta Sound design: Miodrag Flego Cast: Nina Peruško, Michelle Salome Kursar, Moris Nikolić, Luanna Počerek, Iva Kovać, Leonarda Sep, Marko Gašparović, Melissa Malešević, Anja Erjavec, Mirjana Andrić, Karla Medakov, Ema Vještica, Donata Butković, David Rovis Duration: 35 minutes 13 is a dance show, inspired by the film Ocean's 11. Plot of the film is explored in an abstract way through dynamic and rhythmic form, simple scenic solutions, movements and actions. A play of walking is chosen as the main form of communication. Cold, rectangular, sharp movement is used as a symbol of organization and precision, which transforms simple into complicated. Each performer is a part of a whole, an essential link, as every move that has its exact number and place. In this way, performers play with composition of body in a space thus rendering the space rich and dynamic. RADOJKA HAS NO REPORT CARD
Children's Centre (Zaječar, Serbia) Directed by: Selena Ristić Vitomirović Adaptation of the text: The Torn Workers by Olga Dimitrijević Cast: Stefan Vugrinec, Miloš Mitrović, Dimitrije Stanković, Vladimir Petković, Milica Anđelić, Dušica Polić, Ana Stokić, Tamara Milanović, Petra Stojanović, Milica Ristić, Tamara Marković Duration: 45 min The play was created based on motifs from Olga Dimitrijević’s text The Torn Workers. In a satirical way, it tackles a very important social topic of the status of the working class in Serbia, destroyed in a process of a cruel and irresponsible transition. Through Brecht’s theatrical expression, the piece is socially positioned, politically neutral but coloured through looking at the position of workers from the 90s until today. Illegal work, child labour, political employment, liberal capitalism coming to life in a society whose roots are still in socialism – are some of the topics of this piece. Displaying the problems of social life and existential conditions of people in a restrictive environment, the play causes laughter. The audience pulled into the web of ‘’lives of others’’ realises only at the end of the play how laughter is directed towards themselves and their decades-long passive acceptance of societal decay in general. LULLABY FOR MLADENKA
Mostar Youth Theatre (Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Author project: Sead Đulić Cast: Mia Musić, Šejma Delalić, Ali Kamer Aksoy, Alem Neziri, Damir Čobo, Faris Količić i Haris Habibija Duration: 60 minutes Being human is not courage The play Lullaby for Mladenka is a poetic documentary show about a crime committed in September, 1993 in Grabovica village, near Mostar. 33 civilians were killed. A 4 year old was killed. And most of the people responsible for the crime were not brought to justice. A veil of silence began hovering over Grabovica, which doesn’t exist today as an inhabited village. Since the premiere, we get asked all the time: Where do you get courage to speak about this? Since the beginning, our answer has remained the same: Courage is silence about everything, and all we did is a normal human gesture. Being human is not courage. MATTER OF CHOICE OR WHY I LISTEN TO MARČELO
Teleport Theatre (Paraćin, Serbia) Author project: Uroš Mladenović, Marko Šelić Marčelo, Milena Bogavac Cast: Uroš Mladenović, Ivan Aleksić, Teddy Bear – the actor Duration: 43 minutes Auto-poetic essay based on texts of About People, Dogs and Mice. If you listen to Marčelo… Or listen to your mom and dad… If you listen to well-intentioned advice… Or you listen only to yourself, you will love this play. It speaks about choices we make and about Serbia which offers you a million reasons to be unhappy. Still, there is one reason for happiness and it is stronger than the other million ones. That reason is YOU. This play is for youth, this play is for parents, this play encourages young people to bring their parents. Matter of Choice is a play about growing up. About decisions and making decisions. About a small town and its people, from a small town. About role models, ambitions, getting to know oneself and significance of finding one’s own calling. About a thousand of reasons for you to be unhappy and only one to be happy. That one reason is YOU! |