On Tuesday ,July 23rd, starting at 9PM, in the venue Between Churches, the play Tartuffe is to be performed. It is Ivan Vuk Torbica’s authorial project, that was written in accordance with the motifs of the original play of the same name by Molière. The play is a successful co-production of the Sombor National Theatre and the Serbian National Theatre (Novi Sad).
It is important to say that what we have here is a more contemporary version of the original by Moliere. It is realized as a part of the project “Comical Represented as Part of the Classical”. According to what was said at the “Belgrade International Theatre Festival”, Igor Vuk Torbica’s play is the prime example of a technique in literature called “rewriting”. It is the writing of a completely new text in accordance with the motifs, characters and situations of the original classical work.
Igor Vuk Torbica created a brilliant, precise, truthful and completely contemporary play that doesn’t skip anyone in its critique. It targets the men’s inconsistent morals, irresponsible gullibility and the agreement to the unacceptable way of life. The actress Hana Selimović, impersonating Dorina, addresses the public directly. Her performance is on one hand spontaneous and delicately attractive in terms of the comic effect whilst on the other it is exposing to the very core. From the very beginning, the actress establishes a key direct communication with the audience and will continue in this manner to the very end of the play. This makes the audience an inseparable part of the performance also in some way responsible for the complete disarray ensuing afterwards. . Saša Torlakovic is magnificent as Tartuffe, who is secretly manipulative with Mephistophelian sweetness and seductiveness. Ivan Vuk Torbica’s Tartuffe subtly exposes the omnipresent social lies.
The play has won awards in different categories and that in manifestations amongst which are: “Theatrical Spring” (Šabac), “Vojvodina Professional Theater Festival”, “Petar Kočić” theater festival (Banja Luka) and the “Without Translation” festival (Užice), in addition to the award of the “Hoću u pozorište” website editorial office. For his artistic work on “Tartuffe”, Igor Vuk Torbica was posthumously awarded a prize for directing “Bojan Stupica” by the Association of Drama Artists of Serbia. During the last year’s “Comedy Days” festival in Jagodina, the play received no less than three awards, amongst which is the one for the best direction of a play that went to Igor Vuk Torbica.
Along with Igor Vuk Torbica, the authorial team of the play entails: Andreja Rondović (scenographer), Jelisaveta Tatić Čuturilo (costume design) and Vladimir Pejković (music for the play).
Cast: Saša Torlaković, Hana Selimović, Ninoslav Ðorđević, Tijana Marković, Marko Marković, Biljana Keskenović, Danica Grubački, Marko Savić, Dušan Vukašinović, Nemanja Bakić, Milorad Kapor, Dragana Šuša.
The “Theatre City” Press-Office