Kumovi

The Performing Arts Theatre, Nikšić

Dušan Kovačević

Kumovi

Directed by: Božidar Đurović

Scenography: Vesna Popović

Costume design: Marina Medenica i Margareta Marinković

Stage movement: Jelena Simić

The choice of music: Bojan Bojanić

Cast: Žana Gardašević Bulatović, Hadži Nenad Maričić, Ivona Čović Jaćimović, Nikola Vasiljević, Pavle Bogojević

“The fundamental theme of this play can be illustrated through the everyday life of the contemporary man in the Balkans where the human life is constantly facing the obstacle of what the one would call “a dog’s life”. At first, this life can seem as a chance to free oneself from the constraints posed by the civilized society and the delusion called contemporariness. This is all, however, only the consequence of the institutional marginalization of the members of the Balkan society. However, in Kovačević’s poetics, as is the case with the plots encountered in plays generally, one delusion is always followed by another. Human life and love as such are the only things worth sacrificing and fighting for, even if that  might be through the dog’s bark and the life of a “stray dog”. These are the words written by the Performing Arts Theatre in Nikšić’s director. The purpose of the play Kumovi is to celebrate the 140 years from the performance of the first play in Nikšić. It premiered on February,16 this year and that on the Day of the Establishment of the Performing Arts Theatre in Nikšić.