REPERTOAR OSMOG MEĐUNARODNOG POZORIŠNOG FESTIVALA „SLAVIJA 2009“

 9. mart - OKOLO THEATRE NEAR THE STANISLAVSKY HOUSE,
Moscow, Russian Federation
N.V.Gogol: „THE GAMBLERS“

10. mart - „SLAVIJA“ THEATRE,
Belgrade, Serbia
Branislav Nušić: „IN POWER“

11. mart - SARTR,
Saraievo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miodrag Žalica: „THE EMBRACE“

12. mart - BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA NATIONAL THEATRE, Saraievo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dubravko Jelačić Bužimski: „THE MIDNIGHT GAME“

13. mart - ŠABAC THEATRE,
Šabac, Serbia
Zoran Božović: „THE QUEEN OF LAUGHTER“        

14. mart - EPILOGUE THEATRE, Zagreb and
CRYSTAL CUBE OF BRIGHTNESS TOWN THEATRE, Sisak, Croatia
David Farao: „THE GUEST“

15. mart - YOUTH THEATRE „NIKOLAI BINEV“,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Frank Vedekind: „THE DEATH AND THE DEVIL“

16. mart - NOTTARA THEATRE,
Bucharest, Romania
A. P. Chekhov: „PLATONOV“

17. mart - DRAMA THEATRE SKOPJE,
Skopje, Macedonia
Edward Albee: „THE GOAT: OR, WHO IS SYLVIA?“

Nusic never finished his comedy “In Power”. Despite this fact, it was, and always will be, one of his most popular so called “small pieces”. “In Power” was usually, and still is, enacted alongside his other very popular pieces, “Analfabeta” and “Rent”. Of course, writers and directors alike considered it a challenge to add to, finish, and write the ending for this play.

Largely forgotten poet and satirist, Mile Stankovic was the first to do so. After him, came Ratislav Durman from Novi Sad. But the most accepted and well-known adaptation of “In Power” was brought to us by famous director, Miroslav Belovic. 
 
Even the author of these lines could not resist this challenge. I wrote an adaptation and directed my own version of “In Power” in Zrenjanin’s “Tosa Jovanovic” Theatre.

I agreed to do the play with my own adaptation of the script, modified to suit many specifics of the “Slavija” Theatre. Although this was a radical move, I stayed as true to Nusic’s original as possible – and how could I not?

Ben Akiba laughed in the face of monsters known as careerism, corruption, thievery, profiteering, over-ambition, and the hunger for power to the extent that someone who was unfamiliar with Nusic’s work would not believe that the comedy “In Power” was written way back in 1938.

Based on a family whose son-in-law has the fortune of being appointed minister, an entanglement ensues after opening a Pandora’s Box of overzealous wishes and ambitions. The less deserving one is, the more satisfying the powers of personal gain and protection.

I too have tried to provide an answer for the cursed question – what is power? How do we perceive it here and now?
Every era has its own answer. Perhaps it was in the face of this very question that Nusic stopped – maybe this is why he never finished “In Power”.

    Radoslav Zlatan Doric – Writer and Director