Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija<\/p>\n
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A play considered one of the most famous monodramas in the history of Croatian and Yugoslav theatre in general. The aforementioned monodrama was first performed in 1974. It was directed by Dino Radojevi\u0107, in collaboration with Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija. From its premiere till 1991, the play was performed the fascinating 2000 times.<\/p>\n
There are actors whose primary concern is the role they had taken up and then there are those who strive to speak the facts of life \u00a0through their acting.<\/p>\n
What made Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija, who stayed consistent in performing this same play for over half a century, and the text famous is not the fact that the text was a classic, but the reason was that it dealt with universal human topics.<\/p>\n
My Showdown with Them <\/strong>(Moj obra\u010dun s njima<\/strong>) came to be out of intolerable anger. It was a sort \u00a0of Krle\u017ea\u2019s clash with everyone at that time who lied, kept their silence when they were supposed to speak, trembled in front of authority and would have done anything to achieve their goal. His topics encompassed \u00a0the ones regarding the literary mafia, the mediocrity having power at that time as well as hypocrisy masked under the veil of patriotism. Krle\u017ea\u2019s work was written in 1932 but it seems like it could have been written yesterday, taking the relevancy of the topics into account.<\/p>\n \u0160erbed\u017eija took upon himself the task of bringing the topics Krle\u017ea had written about to the stage and had stellar success. The play found its way to the generations of different audiences and was performed two thousand times. People had been coming to see the play more that once because they could always learn something new or recognize something they would rather forget about themselves. Krle\u017ea\u2019s writing has that capacity to hold a strong grip on the listener and to strike one at the core of his\/her being. It \u00a0finds \u00a0you in your moments of silent reflection, compromise and the one\u2019s where you again slipped back and did the thing you had promised not to do ever again.<\/p>\n There is only one actor on the stage, without d\u00e9cor which derives attention. No unnecessary tricks of the trade but the voice, body and the text that is self-explanatory. \u0160erbed\u017eija is not only impersonating Krle\u017ea\u2019s writing- he lives it. Rade has also gone through exile, rejection, and\u00a0 paid the price \u00a0for not wanting to budge an inch . There is no divide between him and Krle\u017ea and much less between him and the audience.<\/p>\n The play is not intended for those looking for fun.<\/p>\n This play is for those still using their critical thinking and having the ability to really get angry at the state of things, remembering \u00a0what\u2019s it like to have a\u00a0 strong backbone.<\/p>\n A single voice and the question which will remains in one\u2019s \u00a0head long after the play has finished: Whose side are you on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78113,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[186],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-77999","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-between-the-churches","event_type-teatar","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/77999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77999"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=77999"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=77999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}